George O’Grady Reminisces To Feherty About Time He Met Rory McIlroy

In an hour long interview with David Feherty to be broadcast next Christmas, European Tour Chief George O’Grady reminisced about the “good ole days” of the European Tour including once meeting Rory McIlroy.

Dressed in a threadbare blue suit and stained red tie and smelling faintly of stale urine, O’Grady also claimed to have met Lee Westwood, Luke Donald and Justin Rose during his tenure.

“Oh yes, I actually met Rory McIlroy on a number of occasions when he was in Europe,” recalled O’Grady.  “My most cherished memory was the night in a place called Ireland, where we had the most wonderful players black tie event that you would never find on the PGA Tour.   We were all, let’s say, slightly inebriated, then Rory got up and thrilled us all with an impromptu trick shot routine.  I think a couple of the lads dragged in a washing machine, and Rory chipped seven consecutive balls in the door. We had to each knock back a shot of tequila for every ball that went in.  You should have seen Darren Clarke, he fell off his chair trying to suck the lemon halfway through.  By the time the last ball went in, every one of us was on the floor banjaxed drunk, rolling around with laughter.  Everyone that is, except for Rory who just stood there smiling at us.  I think he was about six years old at the time.”

However after being poked and prodded at the current state of the European Tour in a witty way by Feherty, O’Grady finally broke down. 

“For God sakes stop it David. Look at what I’ve done,” said the dejected chief executive, hoisting up an almost empty A4 sheet detailing events to be actually held in Europe this season in front of the audience . “Pitiful.”

“All I have as a prize so far for any tournament in Europe is a box of Pinnacles,” O’Grady sobbed staring blankly at the studio floor.

“Maybe I just got swept away by all the Arab Sheikhs.  They brought me into the desert and let me drive a gold plated 4x4 Land Cruiser up an impossibly steep sand hill.  Then some Chinese businessmen let me hit drives off the top of a skyscraper and told me it was okay if I hit people below.  It was all so much fun, I forgot that Europe existed.”

“They’ve all gone David, they’ve all gone”, O’Grady sobbed as the credits rolled.

 

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