Was Rory Mcilroy * intended * to win masters? Here’s how he sees

Flourtown, without. – Rory Mcilroy Put a PGA Tour record Wednesday morning. He played nine golf holes for the Masters and three amateurs better than the best-in less than two hours. The tournament people of the tournament thought he was in the 6th hole when he was actually at 9th. It can be done, people. Can be done. Walk on your ball with a club and a plan.

Foursome Mcilroy had some things that went to. For starters, Mcilroy plays Irish Golf without fuss. His group was the first. All three am played ready golf. And the course, Cricket Cricket Club CourseBeautiful and healthy, is 7,100 yards, all stretched. It was intended to walk, without extension of curves between the greens and tees. (A wooden bridge.) You stumble from the 8th and 9th green, as the course is run for this Trumpet. The thing you see all Scotlandgreens and tee living in harmony, side by side.

Mcilroy, the sixth and young member of the Grand Slam Club career, was becoming friends and admirers as he walked Spring-in-Philadelphia Fairways with his well-known fiery walking Wednesday morning. He actually ran 50 or so many yards from the 7th green to the 8th Tee, glanced at the hole for the first time and said, “Whew, Long Par-3!”

Pick up, in a stroke, 240 yard. He smokes a wonderful one, drawing 4-Herkuri that was high and perfect. Local players who know the course well (your correspondent has played that hundreds of times over the past 40 years), have been eager to see how it would be held when played by many of the best players in the world. On Wednesday morning, we received our response. The masters sample just made the most sought -after course the course look easy. Mcilroy does this. He makes golf look easy.

He did not do, with fame, Winning masters Last month it looks easy, what doubles it at 1 and another in 13 and winning, in its 17th effort to win a green coat, in the first hole of Play off on Justin Rose.

Our sister publication, GolfThere is Rory on the next cover. For the part, I asked different people if they thought Mcilroy would win the masters one day. Not hoped – OPINION. There were a set of answers. One person told me that Mcilroy was “destined” to win it. Around the same time, I got up in an amazing citation of Bob Dylan in which defines Bard of Hibbing, Minn., luckanswering a question by Ed Bradley of 60 minutes. Knowing that Mcilroy would enter the press tent for a short press conference after his nine holes of Pro-AM entertainment, I wrote the quote (Green Felt Marker), with the idea that I could take the sheet and ask them to read and answer. It is likely to be a fantasy – the delivery of a sheet of paper like this is outside the cultural norm of these things – but fantasy is an important part of life. Or not?

I asked Mcilroy if he was always confident that he would one day win the masters.

“I’ve always had hope,” Mcilroy said. “I would not appear in Augusta And I feel like I couldn’t win. The week I feel like that, I will go up there for the champions dinner and swim in my green jacket. But I won’t play.

“Yes, I always had hope. I always felt like I had the game. While everyone saw it on that Sunday, it was to overcome – I don’t know what the right phrase is – but defeating my mind was a great thing for me.”

It would be interesting, to listen to Dylan and Mcilroy to compare notes on destiny and fortune and effort and hope. (Years ago, at Mountaingate in Los Angeles, I played with a small teaching professional, Suzy, a few years beyond the middle age, who said she was the Bob Dylan Golf Instructor, and I had every reason to believe it.) This is what Dylan told Ed Bradley for Desty:

“Is a feeling you have to know something about yourself no one else does. will be realized. That is the type of things you have to keep on your own. Because it’s a fragile feeling. And if you put it there, then someone will kill him. Better better keep it inside. “

These are amazing sentences, indeed. But these issues are not, of course, of a suitable size. Mcilroy said he imagined playing the shooting he would need to win the masters. He did not imagine the butler cabin ceremony or any of that.

“The worst I felt on Sunday in Augusta was probably when I made the bird fork in 10 to go 4 forward because I’m like, ‘oh, I truly I can’t confuse that right now. ‘”

It was a pressure cooking that Sunday afternoon. This is what made it so wonderful and exciting. Justin Thomas said Wednesday that he watched the final, “next to TV”. Xander Schauffle said about the same.

This week, the Truist at Cricket Philadelphia, will not be like that. This week the rich will become richer, and an audience CBS will take to see a beautiful old classic course run by modern equipment and wild speed. The winner will get a cricket silver stick, and $ 3.6 million. You can guess what would tell 72 players at this event:

manifest it

Mcilroy played several crickets as children in northern Ireland. He has played a lot of golf in these old -time courses. He will not have to defeat his mind to win here. All he has to do is shoot a score lower than the other 71 boys.

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