Great Players Have ‘An Aura’: Jack Nicklaus’ Aura is ‘Greatness’
Former world #16 Nick O’Hern talks about why Memorial feels so special as a player, and he talks about the aura Jack Nicklaus has at the event. Along with Jack’s ‘aura’, Nick talks about the aura of other players: Tiger Woods, Greg Norman, Seve Ballesteros.
Nick was speaking on the Talk Birdie To Me podcast with Tour Pro Mark Allen.
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First time I was in the presence of Nicklaus was at the 1988 Bicentennial Classic at RM – as I was caddying for Costantino Rocca in the world cup the following week at RM – jack is much shorter in person when you first see him
And Rory McIlroy is not great and does not have an aura of anything other than
"only child syndrome." His absence at the Memorial because "he doesn't like the course" or "the course doesn't suit his game" or whatever that entitled, self serving, do whatever he wants, impulsive vacuum, vomited out as to why he wasn't playing was just another retarded decision in a long line of retarded decisions.
Every year Jack Nicklaus lives to see another memorial, a tournament on a course he built in his home town on a weekend that remembers people who served and died in the monstrosity of war, is another blessing. Once the old man dies a chapter will not end but an entire volume will close and a new era in golf will begin, post Jack Nicklaus. So for the reigning Masters champion, Mr Career Grand Slam, Rory McIlroy, to not turn up, is the end of the Rory paragraph. Even if he turns up at the 50th Memorial next year (1976-2026) it will be a hollow presence, looking more like an opportunity to walk on stage rather than serve the game and honour the man.
McIlroy is going to find it very difficult to ever escape the vortex of this failure and if Jack doesn't make another year, there will be a well rehearsed, well directed, well orchestrated public display of remorse and with the shallow fakery that drives this spoilt cliche, it will be quite an award winning performance. I am simply lost, for a position to have on him now, he has brought an ugliness to the most beautiful game. The game where we experience who we are, where we reveal ourselves to ourselves, where we succeed or fail the test of success or failure, it makes me wonder.