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Audio Morning Drive - Brian Keogh Interview (4:56)
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Golf Correspondent for the Irish Sun, Brian Keogh joins 'Morning Drive' to give the European perspective on the possibility of Rory McIlroy joining the PGA Tour.
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-There's a story that's front and center and in addition
to the actual action we're gonna see on the court.
And no, it doesn't involve Tiger Woods. Rory McIlroy yesterday
said that he was likely to take up membership on
the PGA Tour next year. We thought this might, and
you've been on this and you've talked to Rory and
caddied for him, you said 2, 3 years down the
road would be your kinda "inkling", but this apparently is
kind of a bombshell that he dropped, I don't know,
it could be next year. We wanted the perspective, we
had the perspective of a bunch of writers. We had
John [unk], we've talked to our guys, you and I
have broken it down. But let's find out what it's
like on the other side of the pond. He's in
Akron but he writes for the Irish Sun and we're
gonna welcome in Brian Keogh who is been covering this
story and has been obviously familiar with Rory McIlroy, how
surprised were you that Rory said what he said yesterday
and what sort of local reaction to his comments? -I
was very surprised really. I know he's been talking about
it quietly, you know, behind the scenes with some of
his, from his background team and some of the other
players, but really I didn't expect Rory to come back
out and join the PGA Tour especially in a Writer
Cup year but you know he loves it over here,
he loves the golf courses over here, he loves the
fans over here and he's a major star over here
after his U.S. Open win, so it seems like a
really logically move for him. -Brian, has there been immediate
criticism, obviously you're in Akron but based on what you
know back home through the paper, is the reaction just
surprised right now, or is there also some surprised disappointment
and maybe some anger toward Rory with his strong indication
that back to the U.S. in 2012. -Well I don't
hear any anger at all. The only anger that would
be, would be if Rory McIlroy didn't play in the
Irish Open next year, but he said, I asked him
about that yesterday, he said no, absolutely, I have to
play in the Irish Open, but yeah, there's no doubt,
I mean the European Tour will be a little bit
disappointed that there gonna lose Rory McIlroy from perhaps, you
know, 2 or 3 events and maybe some of the
Asian Tour Events he might not play those now that
he has to play 15 on the PGA Tour, and
of course hopefully 4 of the FedEx Cup events but
no anger, no. I think it's always been, you know,
pretty obvious that Rory McIlroy's future lies on the PGA
Tour, the courses here suit his game and this is
where it's at really for Rory. -He's also been in
the news over the last couple of weeks since he's
won the U.S. Open. First with his comments about he
doesn't particularly like like style courses, and then of course
the Twitter back and Forth with Jay Townsend, where he
told Jay Townsend via tweet to shut up, that his
opinion doesn't mean anything, where-how did that play at home?
What did it catch more flack for, saying what he
said on Twitter or saying what he said about the
courses that are link style? -He probably got more flack
for what he said on Twitter, but not for what
he said as such put for the way he said
it, the personal and nature of the comments about Jay
Townsend, but you know what people love about Rory McIlroy
is that he always gives a very honest answer, he
says what he thinks, and I think what happened at
the Open that time, which was perhaps just a little
bit of a guilt reaction to, you know, to having
a bad day on the golf course and perhaps some
of the questioning that might have, maybe irritated him a
little bit, but, you know Rory McIlroy is well able
to play in the wind, his coach will tell you
he's well able to play in the wind and I
think, you know, we'll see him when many in better
shape but maybe not in a scale force conditions, but
certainly he'll win a few. But the Twitter thing, you
know, a lot of people did back him up for
what he said, for standing up for his caddy and
that's fair enough, but perhaps, as her said yesterday, admitted
that maybe he could have said it just a little
bit differently and not got on Twitter in the heat
of the moment, after finishing with a double bogey in
the Irish Open that day. -You know Brian, he have
reached out to 2 tour officials of the U.S. PGA
Tour yesterday with respect to his interest in coming back.
Do you know if he has made contact, if he
had done it prior to reaching out to U.S. Tour
Officials with respect to George O'Grady and anybody on the
European Tour to let them know in advance that this
is what he thought he was going to be doing?
-No, I'm not aware of anything like that, I think
you know, he is due to sit down with his
agent, Chubby Chandler, I think in Atlanta on Monday and
then just go over everything that's been said over yesterday
and discuss what way they're gonna go about going forward
and, you know Rory McIlroy doesn't like to play a
huge number of events so he's schedule is going to
be a bit of a headache for him next year.
I think we'll see him play a fairly similar schedule
to his friend Graeme McDowell perhaps just a couple events
fewer, but, you know, he's gonna have to drop obviously
a couple events in Europe but with the Writer Cup
year as well, you know, he's gonna have to be
very careful in picking where he's gonna play, but I'm
not aware of any chats so far anyway with the
European Tour. -Brian thank you very much for the perspective
and being part of our program. We'd love to have
you back on soon and have a great time at
Tournament in Akron.
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