Bonus Episode | Full Swing ( Documentary- series)

<p>1. Rory McIlroy has still got it.</p><p>We had to wait until the end of Full Swing’s inaugural season to get the Rory Episode, one you were undoubtedly waiting for if you spent any time following the PGA Tour last season. McIlroy didn’t just play well in 2022, though he certainly did that, winning three tournaments, including the Tour Championship in Atlanta in August, and finishing in the top eight in each of the four major championships. But he was also the primary face and voice of the PGA Tour in a season when it was under attack by the Saudi Arabia–funded LIV Golf.</p><p>McIlroy spent much of last year promoting the Tour, criticizing the players who jumped ship for money (something he says he regrets in a candid Full Swing moment), and perhaps most important, working to change the Tour to entice other top golfers to stick around.</p><p>And his episode doesn’t disappoint. We get plenty of gym time with Rory (even if some of his workouts may seem a little unorthodox—are you supposed to throw medicine balls into a mirror?); we see him chatting with other PGA Tour professionals and get a glimpse into the way they’ve started to defer to Rory as a steward of the game; and we also get this scene, which will live in comedic infamy:</p><p><br>Even if his episode isn’t the most illuminating overall—we don’t get any family or real personal time with him like we do with some of the younger guys on Tour—it’s clear who the big get of this season was for the Full Swing team. Rory delivers.<br>2. Brooks Koepka is going through it.<br>WHEW. “Win or Go Home,” Full Swing’s second episode and one that focuses largely on Koepka, is an incredible piece of television. It’s a portrait of a broken man, one who has lost his game because of injury and mental fatigue and is trying, and failing, to find it again. Plenty of images will stick with me from this episode: a bleached-blond Brooks getting testy with reporters after a disappointing performance at the Waste Management Phoenix Open, a tournament he had won twice previ