"Dubbed 'Rocky' McIlroy after his hold-me-back car park rant in Rome, the Masters champion is happy to call Patrick Cantlay "a dick", Bryson DeChambeau an attention grabber and crowd trouble an "inevitable" companion in New York this week. He appears ready to use the vitriol as rocket fuel and even provoked a couple of boos when fans came through the gates for the first time on Tuesday."
""Yeah, I think Rory is very comfortable with himself," the Englishman said. "I think he has thick skin. "I think that he can handle the blowback of if he says something that he believes and it is not taken in the right way, I think he's happy to see it how he sees it and call it how he sees it. "And I think he has the freedom on the golf course to just roll with that.""
"What he says I don't think layers into his golf game, and that's an amazing talent that he has," Rose continued as he spoke to the media ahead of his seventh appearance in the Ryder Cup at the age of 45. "I think he always plays incredibly freely, and I think that's probably the line where Rory can tiptoe better than most."
Rory McIlroy earned the nickname 'Rocky' after a hold-me-back car-park rant in Rome and openly insulted rivals, calling Patrick Cantlay 'a dick' and describing Bryson DeChambeau as an attention grabber. He called crowd trouble 'inevitable' in New York, appears ready to use vitriol as rocket fuel, and provoked boos when fans entered. Justin Rose is Europe's second-most capped player with six Ryder Cups and projects leadership for a potential 2027 captaincy at Adare Manor. Rose views McIlroy as comfortable and thick-skinned, able to handle blowback, with comments that do not layer into his golf and allow him to play freely.
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