Inevitably, Rory McIlroy's tremendous win in the US Open golf championship has spawned the usual stupid responses and comments that accompany every home triumph or, even, minor success.
Jack Nicklaus, a truly great player, has been quoted as saying "I think this kid's going to have a great career", surely one of the most banal remarks possible, while McIlroy's Northern Irish compatriot Graeme McDowell has apparently said "He's potentially the next Tiger Woods". This last statement is so moronically meaningless as to make me want to vomit. Every new player is 'potentially' a great player, but no one is ever the 'next' somebody else. Rory McIlroy is not the next anyone, he is the one and only Rory McIlroy; if he can continue his recent form, he could eventually become one of the game's great players, but please don't get caught up in the nonsensical hyperbole so beloved of our bone-headed media.
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