RORY MCILLOY PAST-Master’s question leaves the golf world in curious place

Furintown, without. – Less than an hour after Rory Mcilroy became the sixth man who ever won in his career Grand Slam, he became the first man to declare clearly.

From Dais to the press room decorated in Augusta National, Mcilroy looked at the gathered press and laughed.

“What will we talk about next year? “

McIlroy’s national failures had been the source of golf media fascination for almost as long as he would play at the event – an obsession that grew only after he won the remaining three feet of Grand Slam career, and was amplified by the Masters Heartbreak every year. Now, with a green jacket wrapped over his shouldersHis comment was a nice jam: let’s find a new scenario.

The beauty of A The massive conclusion of the scenario is that many others can take its place. But this is also a challenge. The new stories were a charge not only for future masters, but for golf. Victory in Augusta was a historical call pointGiving a sequence of iconic images that will stay in the test of time in Golf, but it was also the end of the sentence. One of the biggest and most convincing stories of the golf was closed, and a void was opened in the space that history once invaded.

In the Truist Championship, the latest PGA Tour event before the big season grows back in Charlotte, THIS Was Hangover masters. Not a golf player riding in a historic high (from all accounts, Mcilroy has looked extremely in the weeks after the masters celebrated), but a sport in a transition moment.

“I think Rory said it myself: What are you going to talk about?“Said Shane Lowry with a fuss.” I don’t know – maybe you can talk about Jordan now. Or scottie by winning Grand Slam. “

What’S what is else in golf now that the Mcilroy Grand Slam career is off the table? Some, like Lowry, have suggested that the narrative can be moved to generation players after Rory, players like Jordan Spieth and Scottie Scheffler, who have large aspirations. What about a real, one year old Grand?

“He can be the next story really great … for Grand Slam This year,“Said Curtis Strange, who will call the back-back bid of Mcilroy by Quail Hollow for ESPN next week.” What is the other scene of the story? If Rory wins next week … He has two from four in one year, and he is the kind of player that when he goes he is very, very explosive. “

“I can’t help but think of that line from Joker, Heath Ledger, in The dark knight, where he says, ‘You have nothing to threaten me,“” Said Scott Van Pelt, who will call the tour along with Strange. “You have nothing to threaten Rory now. You can’t hang it on his head. It’s not a decade to not win. You’re not winning in Augusta. I’ve checked the boxes, and now I can just let it bake. I think it will be interesting to see.”

A second (or third?) Life of Rory Mcilroy would not be surprising to anyone who has looked at his close absences in Majors over the last decade. We’ve seen many other players, recently Phil Mickelson, win in batches as the big championship wall falls down. Mcilroy’s next big start, Quail Hollow, comes in a golf course so capable of the champion five times larger that even his competitors cannot ignore it.

“Yes, (will win) in Rory Mcilroy Country Club,” spieth said to Mcilroy on Tuesday.

And then there is the possibility that the other story to determine golf has nothing to do with action within the ropes.

“I think the next decade will be that elephant in the room the game didn’t want to understand this – it has to unite these people more often,” Van Pelt said. “It’s an explosion when we get a field as we get next week, and the game is better when we have it.”

Whatever The story is – or the stories are – it seems clear that it will soon be identified. Funny funny, something always seems to happen one day after a world stop story happens: the world continues to rotate anyway. Rory’s victory may have reduced the narrative pool, but multiplied the sport. More fans will watch golf For his victory, more sponsors will enter the sheep, more money will be made. Others in his orbit will increase as a result.

“There are plenty of great stories in Golf,” Mcilroy said on Thursday with a fuss. “Despite how, how, Scottie won by a million week last week and seems to be back to his best. You have Jordan Spieth going for Grand Slam career next week. You have a lot of exciting things happening in women’s game. There are always great stories in Golf, and of course it should not be just for me.”

On Friday – and not for the first time this week – Mcilroy referred to the golf ball flying too far for a classic host course like the Philadelphia Cricket Club, a reminder that in the sport has layers too beyond the winners and losers of the tournament.

So how would Mcilroy answer his question from Augusta?

“Hopefully within two weeks you are talking about me being a big champion six times instead of a big champion five times,” he said with laughing.

What is the next golf talking about? The story has changed – but the topic may not.