
Rory Mcilroy and patrons on Sunday in the 18th hole in Augusta National.
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Augusta, GA – Jay Monahan was working the lawn. A handshake here. A hug there. He laughed at Guy’s killings, Commish Tour World Tour. He caressed the shoulder of a green jacket Augusta National Member minutes ago, the face of the league Monahan the heads had hit his first ball of Master The last round as part of the final pairing. The sky and the mood were lined up: both were sunny.
As were the vibrations throughout the yard. Rory Mcilroy There is a way to do it for his people, of whom there are countless. That was their day. Their husband, holding an advantage of two 18 -hole strokes in hours, was on the verge of winning his first ancestors since 2014. Their man was on the verge of victory of his first lords. Their husband was four or more hours away from the end of the Grand Slam career.
Indeed, we need rewriting.
Their man, holding an advantage with two strokes with 18 holes left per hour, was on the verge of his first first profit since 2014, After a lot of scams and lost shocks. Their man was on the verge of winning his first masters, after much also rans and See-you-next-years. Their husband was four or more hours away from the end of the Grand Slam career, After the loud years.
Mcilroy is a curious character in such a way, as his story creates a shocked polarity. How can someone so blessed be so damn cursed? For his loyalists, he keeps Pepto-Bismol in business. His success is sublime. And his losses are like a quick blow to the golf bag.
But why? He is certainly not alone. But dynamics somehow looks one by one.
I asked Monahan, as Mcilroy would either reward the believers, or again would rob them blind.
“I just think because he is one of his superpowers and one of the things that fans gravitate is his transparency,” said the PGA Tour commissioner, “and his career has been something that people have had the opportunity to experience along the way. He has been fair enough, as it has high levels.
How unique?
“I think that’s something you probably see less.”
About 400 yards away, Mcilroy third with three green traces, and his supremacy had disappeared through a double fraud.
On 2, he tracked out a shot. On 3, he led again, after a bird and a Bryson dechambeau Bogey after 4, he led three, after another Birdie-Bogey exchange. “That’s sick,” a defender shouted. “Come, Rory, Grand Slam, baby,” another called.
For 40 or thousand fans here, and 25K or more following mcilroy, that would be extreme.
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But again, bogeys come and birds go. Why did this run so tired? Why Mcilroy?
“For me, I am an Irish descent,” said Will of Las Vegas, along the 5th route. “So for me, it’s a kind of DNA thing. But, too, it’s four fourth big to him. And I’m a golf nut, so I just want him to get the green jacket. He has won the right. And then he got up for PGA Tour.
“And that means a lot to me.”
After nine, after 63 of 72 holes, Mcilroy was four.
Finally. Or, maybe at this point, never seem if he will not fail.
But again, the directions are uncertain. Why did this feel so annoying? Why Mcilroy?
“I think that since Tiger has fallen from his heights, he has just caught the imagination of players like no other golf player,” George of England said through Jamaica. “And too, he’s really personalized. I can connect with him. I don’t know him, and I’m not Irish. But for a boy born in Jamaica, now living in England who found Golf after I stopped playing football, he seems to have all the cultures.
“And because he shows emotion, he wears it on the sleeve. He allows you to recognize as a fan of how he feels when he plays, when the man does not play well. And, for all those reasons, I think he deserves to finish his career without people telling him what happened in Masters before. You know.
“He has to win and close people.”
Mcilroy Zogu 10, his previous home of horrors after hitting a house in 2011, when he was in appearance then on his way to win.
Eight more holes.
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And eight more holes?!
“I think how close he was and how many people were invested in him and the expectations he had,” said Paul Savannah, GA. “He is like Icarus who almost touched the sun. He approached the sun too early in his career. He came back to the ground and was trying to resurrect himself again in that status.
“And we’re all for that journey. And so we’re riding with it, and we just want to see it achieve it. Yes. That’s good.
“I Think We Gray Up With Rory,” Said Paul’s Friend, Patrick, Also of Savannah, “And We’ve Him Rise to Astronomical Heights. He Had All of the Lofty Expectations, Unfairly or Otherwise. Coupled with the fact that think he knows deep down that he’s been the best player in the world every year – so to see that, to struggle, to wear his heart on his sleeve, I think every person can connect to it.
“It will be cathartic for everyone, to see him win. Likes as a similar concession, thank God, for it has happened.”
And then came a “good god”.
Bogey in 11, and the lead decreased. Double to 13-After a short wedge in Creek’s Rae, a almost incomprehensible error-and an increase Justin Rose quickly tied it. “Rory is the biggest noise,” said a defender to the right of the 13th Street. Another noise in 14, and the bullet was gone. “If he doesn’t do this this year, he will never do it,” said a defender to the 14th green left.
But four holes were left.
And only four.
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“I think people would be higher than high because it’s pure joy after what he has gone through all the shortages nearby in recent years,” said West Palm Beach, Fla. “Especially in last year’s US Open. I think it’s still prominent in everyone’s memory. So that would be the real turn, if you would.
“And to lose, anyway – it feels like nothing could have been worse than a loss in SH.BA and now everyone’s heart would appear.”
Continue, friends of Mcilroy.
That bird par-5 15 and now pulled out of a shot, though an eagle rod looked nervous. “I knew, I knew,” shouted a defender. In 16, Mcilroy was tied again, after a rose bird in front-but on the 17th, Mcilroy restored the lead after a stunning access to several meters. “You will look so good in green, Rory,” said one defender.
Even a hole.
And one more hole
There, Mcilroy withdrew after hitting his second in a right Greenside bunker. “Saint Sh*t, he lost it,” called a defender after his 6-legged to rub in front of the hole on the left side.
Playoff.
Why will this really be, will it really be either sublime, or rapid blow?
“Why is this?” said a defender after the 18th Green. “Because he has won so much, and he is a great champion, but he is very strangled. So you are afraid of the coming noise.”
And then it didn’t happen.
On the 18th, drive down the throat. Iron in the middle of green, where it spinned back to 4 meters. Birdie put in the hole.
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Winner
Winner?
Winner!
His arms climbed. Patrons ‘weapons’ climbed. “Golf gods have spoken,” one said.
How do you feel, Mark of London?
“Well, Rory never does anything other than a sled trip,” he said close to 18.
“So you never get the joy of something to be simple and simple. Got won, not just by him, but by the crowd. So you feel every emotion is going through. So great he won. We are happy with him.

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