Rory Mcilroy and Kate rose after Mcilroy’s masters won on Sunday.
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The masters’ Sunday is known for producing back noise, but has also produced its part of the eye -watering hugs.
Who can forget Nick Faldo and Greg Norman In 1996, hugging the green 18 after Norman had begun a six-stroke lead? A victorious, normally not touched type, withdrew Norman nearby and advised his opponent on how to deal with the future coverage of his melting media: “Do not allow the bastards to sit on you.”
A year later, another hug for the ages: Earl and Tiger, as the youngest Woods had blisted field with 12 and recreated professional golf as we knew. As he left the 18th green, Tiger collapsed in the arms of Earl, dug his beard on his father’s right shoulder and closed his eyes.
Soon forward for 2019 and the sixth and most impossible masters of Tiger win. Waiting for him from the green was his son Charlie, resulting in a bear hug that called Earl’s in the mind from more than two decades ago. All feelings, and then some.
The moments that followed Rory Mcilroy’s first masters win On Sunday evening he also lacked emotion.
Before he came out of the 18th Green, the new champion had drawn three hugs: one for his caddy and childhood friend, Harry Diamond; Another to play partner Justin Rosewho would have just joined Ben Hogan as the only player who lost two play off of masters; And one -third for the long caddy of pink, Mark Fulcher. As Mcilroy left the back of the green, he shook hands with four national greenery members before pulling out and stretching their wings towards his wife, Erica. This hug was followed by another-with the 4-year-old daughter of the Poppy couple, who Mcilroy tried from the ground.
In Mcilroy’s walk to score, more hugs along the way: for his managers; for Tom Nelson, chairman of the Master Media Committee; To his close friends of the tour and steady friends of Ryder Cup Shane Lowry and Tommy Fleetwood.
Staying on the immediate right of Fleetwood on the pickup line was the one that at least one British tabloid would later refer to as a “mysterious woman”. To close the observers of the professional game, however, this kind was everything but mysterious. She was the wife of Justin Rose, Kate, with whom Justin has been married since 2006 and has been a staple in Ryder Cups and other great events since then. Kate has been a first -hand witness many of the high levels of Mcllroy and the lowly overwhelming. She understands the challenges and stresses of the profession, and how the big championships, even for the best talent in the world, is almost impossible. She knows what green jackets meant and TOOL For Mcilroy, just as she knows what a second big title for her husband’s heritage and the chances of the Hall of Fame would say.
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Mcilroy, a game historian, also knows that. He can tell you all about the other nearby losses of Rose, especially the 2017 masters when no player led 279 Rose marking over 72 holes before Rose falls in Sergio Garcia in a play off. “I feel a little about him,” Mcilroy said, in his green jacket on Sunday evening, for Rose, “because he has been so close.”
So when Mcilroy noticed Kate near Fleetwood, you can understand mixed and elevated emotions that go through both. Kate was cheerful for Mcilroy but went into a goal for her husband; Mcilroy was ecstatic for himself, but also promoting empathy for the friend he would triumph. What else could he and Kate do, but quietly exchanged some words?
“Listen, I think when you realize what it means to everyone involved,” Justin Rose said Wednesday in Harbour Town, where he is on the field in RBC Heritage. “You understand what it means to other families, what they should feel. You are a part of the moment. You are a part of the story. You are a part of all the energy that is happening at that moment. I think this is what happens. You embrace the connection you have with everyone and everything that is happening at the moment.”
In other words, golf may be the most lonely and lonely chase, but then together comes one of those rare and precious moments when the room is lit and you realize that you are not really alone.
Rose said he did not know what Kate said in Mcilroy’s ear, and honestly, he seemed to think he was any of his business. “I don’t think it was worthy of the discussion,” he said.
Rose was also asked if he ever had “such a hug in golf with a competitor”.
“I got a big hug from Tommy Fleetwood when I left from 18 Sunday,” he said. “It would say a lot. It’s not always about the result. It is about how someone can make you feel or what they say.” Assuming, that is, the player can process it in the moment. Rose continued, “Sometimes your mind is rotating a million miles per hour in those situations, and it is often difficult to take on what someone can tell you.”
Big Picture, Rose said on Wednesday, he is “tortured” by the possibility of what could have been in Augusta National Last week, but also that he could not ask much more from himself.
“Without regret,” he said. “You can lose a golf tour and there are a million things that you think I should have done differently. There is not really much to look back and go, I should have done it differently the day. More right, I wish it would have added to another outcome.”
