“There’s stuff there that I never thought I’d see in my life."

I'm a little behind in my reading so I just got to Barry Svrluga's profile of Rory McIlroy, with a focus on his recent visit to Haiti. I don't care if he is tied to UNICEF; how many of today's Hogans and Sneads would do what Rory did?

“There’s stuff there that I never thought I’d see in my life,” he said.

He also saw schoolchildren who were, somehow, full of hope, a maternity ward where mothers hoped their kids would grow up in a different Haiti. “The spirit, not just of the kids, but the whole country, was incredible,” he said. But drive between the staged, celebrity-drops-in-to-inspire shots, and there was only devastation. In all of Port-au-Prince, McIlroy said there is a Digicel building, providing cellular service to the nation’s nearly 10 million people, and the hotel in which McIlroy stayed.

“That was basically it — 18 months later,” McIlroy said. “And, I mean, people say it’s a lot better than was it was last year.”