"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 car park rant in Rome and has called Patrick Cantlay 'a dick' and Bryson DeChambeau an 'attention grabber.' Crowd trouble is described as an inevitable companion in New York this week, and McIlroy appears to embrace vitriol as motivation, provoking boos when fans entered on Tuesday. Justin Rose is Europe's second-most-capped player with six Ryder Cups and is viewed as a leading candidate to captain the 2027 side in Adare Manor. Rose characterizes McIlroy as comfortable, thick-skinned, able to handle blowback, and free on the golf course, with comments that do not layer into his game.
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