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McIlroy famously handed last year’s US Open to DeChambeau at Pinehurst No 2 and the Holywood star wasn’t going to let the ‘Mad Scientist’ claim another major at his expense. Asked afterwards about how McIlroy was as they signed their cards, DeChambeau said: “No idea. Didn't talk to me once all day.
” Quizzed further on their interaction on the course, DeChambeau added: “He wouldn't talk to me.” McIlroy is often at his best when he wants to prove a point and he admitted he had no comeback to a supposedly jocose DeChambeau jibe ahead of The Showdown in Las Vegas last December when McIlroy and Scottie Scheffler beat LIV Golf’s DeChambeau and Brooks Koepka at Shadow Creek. The pair were practicing when McIlroy said: "I'd like to go up against Bryson and get him back for what he did to me at the US Open.
” DeChambeau responded by saying: "To be fair, you kind of did that to yourself." McGinley believes it will be good for golf for a rivalry to develop between McIlroy and DeChambeau. “I have no problem with that,” he said.
“We want rivalries and different personalities. We want a bit of edginess. We want the pointy elbows out.
“Rory had unfinished business. You know, he stole the US Open from him last year in Rory's head, and he was not going to get another major championship stolen from him. “It was get out of my way, here I come.
I don't have a problem with that. "You know, the game needs that. We need rivalries.
“Bryson played poorly today, and he played poorly all week long. He was the third worst iron player all week long. So he did phenomenally well.
His competitive spirit got him to where it did and to be in with a shout. “But, you know, he folded on the last day last week in the LIV event in Miami, when he was leading, with a 75 on Sunday. “And he played really poorly again today, folding with a 75 so he's obviously got stuff going on with his iron play that he needs to figure out, and he's got this big hook going on.
‘“And you know, that's something that that you cannot play greens that are as firm as this, with that going on, and the stats show it, he did incredibly well to get as close as he did and but as for the rivalry, bring it on.”.
