Rory makes me enjoy golf again!

He is all of 5'9" and does things that we have not seen in years with his ball speed as high as 183.79. Bubba Watson had the highest his year at 188.49 mph and averages over 183. But, The difference is control, no one is better with power and control with the modern balls and equipment..

Thinking back, maybe Greg Norman and his reported avg swing speed of 132mph s was better, Norman always seemed in balance.  Sadly, I missed Jack in his youth so I can't really dismiss his power and balance, but Rory is definitely special.

Yes, Tiger was a better overall golfer and brutally strong, but he never was fluid nor near as accurate with the big stick.
(Even when he had Harmon teaching him he was winning with his short game and the best putt reading ability we have ever witnessed.)

Rory's recent explosion made me look for a comment I had found when he was with Titleist.

"At the Titleist Performance Institute in California they have one. What they weren’t prepared for though, were the read outs when McIlroy popped over there to hit balls.

As his club made contact with the ground, so did the jaws of the technicians. “We knew Rory was fast,” said Dave Phillips from TPI, “but when we plugged him into our software, we couldn’t believe our eyes. His downswing hip speed redlined at 717 degrees per second.”

No one has hip speed like that, this was breaking new territory. The guys at Titleist had been accustomed to logging speeds more in the mid 500 range. They had never registered numbers like this. “His freakish – and that’s putting it lightly – lower body action is the reason why Rory can drive it past everyone but the very longest in the field.”

He might only be 5ft 9in tall, but his hips move from 49° closed nearing the top of the backswing, to 62° open at impact and that, say the experts, is off the scale. The average for a Tour pro comes in at 30° closed to 48° open."

I hope he wins the PGA.

J.