Rory Mcilroy finally wins masters, take his moment with green jacket

Augusta, ga. – a blow to win the masters. Can you do it? What about one of 5 meters? Would take the weight of the world from your shoulders. Would put you in the history books. Green jacket for life? You too get it.

But it’s late during the day, nearly 7pm, and these greens are getting smooth. They are already shining quickly and now you have thousands of defenders that breathe down the neck. Can you do it? What about stress? Nerves? Pressure?

Experts will tell you that this pressure is good. It means you are in its thickness, ready to do something significant. But that doesn’t mean it’s easy – nothing in Augusta National is and of course not when the masters are in line.

And if you lost that stroke, how would you answer? What if somehow, somehow, have a second chance?

On Sunday, Rory Mcilroy, your newest master champion, faced all these questions.

She ended up as the most important day of his golf life.

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How do you sleep when you expect one of the biggest days of your life? There is a history of more than 100 years ago, when Walter Hagen and Mike Brady settled for a play off in the US Open 1919. Hagen was out in a good morning club, and when someone mentioned that his opponent was already sleeping, Hagen retired, “he may be in bed, but he is not sleeping.”

On Sunday, Mcilroy led Bryson Dechambeau from two to 18 holes to play but the nerves were firm. He did not have an appetite and his stomach was in the knots. His feet felt like jelly.

“It is such a battle in your head trying to stay in the present moment and hit this other blow and hit the other blow,” he said. “That was the battle today. My battle today was with myself. It was with no one else.”

He has been here before. As in 2022 open in St. Andrews, when he was tied up for the lead after 54 holes, Mcilroy could see the direction of the leader from his Rusack Hotel room. How could you not look out of the window and think about how your life can change?

“Of course you have to let yourself dream,” he said then. “You have to let yourself think of it and how it would be.”

Mcilroy had dreamed for a while now. He would have stuck in four degrees since 2014 and still needed masters to complete the Grand Slam career. And despite all the great stroke of Mcilroy’s well-executed heart, entering this week he continued to win four of his six major 54-volume or co-leader directions. The only solo bullet he did not return? Fourteen years ago at Masters 2011, when he shot 81 in the last round.

“That was 14 years ago,” he said on Saturday. “I’m happy to have a short reminder.”

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At 02:25 on Sunday afternoon, the bases are a buzz. Almost almost impossible to see anything in 1; A good day to be a good with 6 feet-2.

A man at the top of a ladder that works on the main chart of the last old time scores of the first fairway holiday to see the last tee of pairing. He laughed when he saw the Patron Sea following the players down the road, a regular sea of ​​pastels.

Although the man of stairs may not have been able to get a good angle in the Mcilroy car, who found the road bunker. He exploded briefly and was caught 18 meters. You do not need to see Putti to know he lost it. Twice with each crowd groaned.

It took a hole for this heavyweight period to be the whole square. Below the second way, a score chart ignited the results of the final pairs. No phone is allowed here, so you find out who is winning. This and the screams.

“Happened what happened?” asked a defender.

“Rory with three strokes and made double,” someone said. “It was ugly.”

Mcilroy put it in the bunker from Tee to 2 and settled for par. Dechambeau bird of birds to get a lead with a stroke.

“Walking to 2, the first thing that gave birth to my head was Jon Rahm a few years ago doing double and going to win,” Mcilroy said. “So at least my mind was in the right place and at least I was thinking positively about it.”

Then Mcilroy started throwing some punches. That bird 3 and 4; Dechambeau bogeyed both. It was the second and third shakes with two strokes in the first four holes.

“This will be a great battle,” said one defender.

He was right, for a while. And the masters customers deserved a good Sunday. Scottie Scheffler withdrew in the back of the ninth ninth year. Jon Rahm did a year ago. Three years ago Scheffler won in a laugh. You will have to return in 2021, when the eventual winner Hideki Matsuyama and Will Zalaatoris fought it in the last Sunday pairing to find a conclusion that was actually near. But even the last difference with a blow of victory made it look much closer than it really was.

Patrons were invested, flooding the areas around ropes and pouring over -filled cups of Crow’s nests trying to make laps for the position. And without Tiger Woods here, there was not even that magnetic force on the other side of the course that steal all clients.

They all followed Mcilroy and Dechambeau, the best new golf rivalry, which traded pars for four straight holes before Mcilroy made Birdie at 9.

They walked the second nine with Mcilroy leading four. Amen Corner waited … But Mcilroy has been in this position before.

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Last June, Mcilroy moved from a Pinehurst Resort Parking. A few minutes ago he looked at the podium of a marking room, a hat still twisted on his head, the universal signs he had just passed through hell. He deceived three of his last four-including short losses in 16 and 18th to give Dechambeau a one-blow victory.

“I look back that day, just as I look back on some of my most difficult moments in my career, I will learn a lot from it and I hope I will put it in good use,” he said a month later in Scotland. “Something’s something that has been a bit of a topic throughout my career. I’ve been able to get those difficult moments and turn them into big things not too long after that.”

It was, of course, the biggest biggest blow to his career. There were also St. Andrews in 2022, when he led two to nine to play and lose. And then it was open of 2023 US at the Los Angeles Country Club, when he led two to five to play and lost again.

Two years ago in Lacc, in the last question of his press conference, Mcilroy were asked not how he deal with disappointment but if you ever gets exhausting questions by answering CLOSER Disappointment.

“Isti, but at the same time, when I finally win this other major, it will really be, really sweet,” he said. “I would spend 100 Sundays like this to get my hands in another big championship.”

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In 2011, Mcilroy went to the 10th Tee In Augusta National with a lead with a stroke and fired 43 in the nine rear. He won the US Open later that summer, but India the master scar remained.

Now, things are different. He’s another golf player – a fuller version of himself, he says. He works with sports psychologist Bob Rotella and talks about following a feeling. He has notes written in the back of his backyard book that help keep it in his bubble. He looks at them by walking by randomly down the right roads.

He made birds 10 to raise his superiority to four, but with a three -stroke lead at 13 he made an unforgivable mistake. Mcilroy took the conservative and hit 3-Dru and 7-and for a slight placement-then threw a wedge in Creek RAE and made double double, its fourth week. Some holes ahead, Justin Rose was going down and as soon as there were birds 15 and 16. Forget Bryson, who is leaking oil – Rose and Mcilroy were now tied on 11 under.

On the 14th, Mcilroy lost the road, lost green and then lost a short blow to it, leaving it on the edge. But Rose followed Mcilroy’s Bogey with one of his, failing to stand up to 17. After Ludwig Aberg Bird Bird 15 had a three -way tie at the top, though he did not climb. But Rose did.

The golden Olympic medal drained a 20 pedestrian for Birdie at 18 to get the club’s lead. Two holes after, Mcilroy heard howl.

Mcilroy had just hit one of his best shots of the day on 15 and with two putted for Birdie. Now he filed 16 and had two remaining holes. Playing them in one subscribed would win the masters. Well it would be a play off. Worse than that? Well, you know … more heart attacks.

Mcilroy was Shakier in the second nine, but he struck an eight-meter-away-away and made birds at 17. A predecessor in 18 would make him a master’s master champion. But after he found the right path, his approach sat in the bunker. He was sprayed and had to drain a 5 -meter kick to win the masters. Patrons kept their breath as he withdrew the Putter again.

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You probably know so far mcilroy did not Do Putt. But he took another chance, another opportunity to win the masters.

Rose (66) and Mcilroy (73) returned back to the 18th blocked at 11 under. Rose hit his approach to 15 meters; Mcilroy in 4 feet. Rose lost. This time, Mcilroy didn’t.

And this time, Rory Mcilroy fallen. Life is about using your second chances, and Mcilroy has caught it. Ironically, drinking was ready at the same distance of what he lost in last year’s US Open. Only in this version he did it, threw his insertion into the air, put his hands on his head, kneeling and shaken.

“It was all relief,” Mcilroy said. “There was not much joy in that reaction. It was all relief. The joy came very soon after that. But I came here 17 years, and it was a decade of emotion that came out of me there.”

With his wife and daughter following him behind him, Mcilroy made his champion in the note area. He shouted, hugged, raised high and hugged others along the way. Finally, when he was done, he shouted at a group of friends.

“I have to go get a green jacket!”