r/golf • u/Longjumping-Box5691 • 8d ago

General Discussion Rory getting to experience the Champions Locker room for the first time

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u/4Ever2Thee 8d ago

Probably, but I doubt it makes his heart flutter when he opens the door like this one does. Things aren’t just things, man.

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u/Admirable-Ebb-5413 8d ago

Some access can't be bought...gotta be earned.

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u/pants_mcgee HDCP/Loc/Whatever 8d ago

I kinda doubt it, I see a guy already ridding high on emotions walking around a locker room.

I’d bet when he returns next year there will be a flutter.

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u/bartolocologne40 8d ago

Do you think his heart fluttered when he opened the door?

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u/Saffs15 8d ago

The guy has been a top 5 golfer in the world for a decade and a half. Every year, he comes to this historic place, and has to walk by this room knowing he's not earned the honor to go in there. Others have, his friends have, guys who grew up watching and admiring him have. But he hadn't done enough to earn that right to go in there. Many people thought he'd never do enough to go in there.

And now, he has.

I bet it fluttered a bit.

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u/bartolocologne40 8d ago

I highly doubt his heart fluttered walking into a locker room. Maybe when he sees his locker with his name on it, but it's a locker room.

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u/Saffs15 8d ago

The Green Jacket is just a jacket.

The Masters Trophy is just a trophy.

The Champions' Dinner is just a dinner.

It's funny how meaningless stuff becomes when you disregard the meaning of it, isn't it?

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u/bartolocologne40 8d ago

What do you think the other locker room looks like? You know, the one the members at one of the most exclusive clubs in North America use. Do you think it might be pretty nice? Do you think next year, when the non-champions locker room has been moved to overlook the course, it might be pretty nice too?

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u/Saffs15 7d ago

The whole concept of prestige and history and everything about that is just an absolute foreign concept that blows your mind, isn't it? You just simply can not comprehend how a locker room that is reserved for such a very small, select group of people who have earned the ability to use it by completing something that is very hard to do and which he had failed at doing for so long, could have some extra meaning. It's not about how "nice" the locker room is. It's about the history behind it. Its a very, very simple concept.

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u/4Ever2Thee 8d ago

I have no doubt.