NORTON, Mass. – With apologies to Phil Kenyon, who is by all accounts one of the game’s best putting gurus, it was sheer force of will that lifted Rory McIlroy to victory on Monday at the wind-battered Deutsche Bank Championship.
There’s no doubt Kenyon, who also works with the likes of Open champions Henrik Stenson and Louis Oosthuizen, is a keen teacher; but after just two weeks of working with McIlroy, it’s fair to say even the Englishman recognizes the depth of Monday’s accomplishments.
An overhaul that McIlroy himself figured would take the better part of eight months to fully take may have pointed the Northern Irishman in the right direction, but it turns out the learning curve wasn’t nearly that steep.