Winning Java of Rory Mcilroy players illuminated its many layers

Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla – the week of Rory Mcilroy in Player championship Started with a heck and ended with heroic. Monday morning, Mcilroy claimed his second title of career players After the beating of JJ spaun In a general off -three -hole Play under Blustery conditions in TPC sawgrass.

It was a week that illuminated what Mcilroy makes a figure so convincing from the course and magnetic on it.

After the 20-year-old college player Luke Potter pulled Mcilroy with an excavation Regarding his 2011 crash during the round of Tuesday practice, Mcilroy crossed the rope line and grabbed the phone of one of the Potter team friends. College players were removed from the premises.

It was a comprehensible, human reaction from Mcilroy. A discoverer too, as My colleague James Colgan noted. She showed the duality of the great winner four times. The unpredictability of the opposite versions he chooses to expose.

He is also ready and tangible enough to show the emotional anxiety of his failures, but he also knows that he cannot allow those permits to determine it.

Mcilroy’s week at TPC Sawgrass, which peaked on Monday after his Sunday growth emerged less than a 72 -holes victory, was everything for this gift and intake.

On Wednesday, Mcilroy said he plans to retire with “some left in the tank” and that he will not play at the PGA Tour Champions. In the next breath, he allowed that he always has the possibility that he could change his thought. Being willing to evolve your positions based on new information is admirable and a sign of a profound introspection skill.

The same goes for his access to the course.

Mcilroy can defeat almost any evidence, but he is working to combat his aggressive natural instincts in an attempt to reflect what Scottie Scheffler has made so prevalent over the past two years.

This change of mentality helped Mcilroy win AT&T Pebble Beach pro-am this year and made him enter the last round at TPC Sawgrass within the striking distance of other players. Despite the beginning of the fourth day of the shooting of the 54 JJ Spaun leaders, Mcilroy was expected to trace the contenders in front of him with an average world order of 103. Everything else would be an overthrow.

The curse of being great is that accompanying expectations only lead to exponentially enlargement failures. Mcilroy knows this very well as his big championship drought enters the 11th year.

So Mcilroy arrived at the TPC Sawgrass on Sunday with the look of the steel of a player who knew what to do, but also realized that his achievement would not calm down the questions to come.

He did Birdie at no. 1 and gripped his second shot in par-5 to 10 meters that led to an eagle. Its start 3-3 cut the superiority from four to one to 30 minutes.

Then came a four-hole stretch that yo-yoed between two mcilroys.

After driving in 6 found the right pine straw, Mcilroy had to hit a blow that required about 40 meters left to the right to avoid trees and give himself a bird’s look. He threw a pale in the sky in Florida, leaving himself a view of 25 meters of right Pin and made it first.

In the next hole, par-4 7, Mcilroy found himself in the middle of the road with a green light to go hunting. But he put his left -handed approach and bunker, which led to a clumsy noise. Mcilroy turned back and filled it at 14 meters in par-3 8 to make only the second bird of the day in that hole. In Par-5 9, Mcilroy hit his second shot on green and failed to rise up and down for the birds.

It was a struggle between rare shootings that only mcilroy is capable of withdrawing and the disappointing mistakes that have often come to determine its greatest failures.

After a four-hour Sunday weather stop, Mcilroy came out and fastened his approach to no. 12 to 14 meters. He rolled into birds and his bullet was suddenly three. In the back of the back he torn late, the golf tour was felt. The last six holes would be just a story in history for Mcilroy.

But instead And force a Monday Play off.

“It is a little by two,” Mcilroy said after his round Sunday when asked if he was proud or disappointed in his round, given where he started the day. “I’m happy to be in the position I am, but I also feel like I had a chance there in the nine back to close the door, and I didn’t do it well. A little by both of them.”

Play off with three holes in Monday lacked drama. Mcilroy struck a 336-Oborre car on the par-5 16th and made a light bird while Spaun made Bogey. Five minutes later, Mcilroy was secure on the island of Green at 17 after hitting a cool half -nine -29 meters iron. When Spaun hit his shoot on green and in the water, the second title of the Mcilroy player championship was everything, but it was closed. Despite a three -putt trick in 17 years old and a stroke at 18, Mcilroy easily closed the spaun.

That he was able to win at TPC Sawgrass while hitting less than 50 percent of fairways indicates the transformation of Mcilroy into a “full” player (his word). He is now able to win in different ways on different leads and is no longer supported on making a field with the driver.

Monday was another achievement that fit a career to the hall of fame.

“I think the only large champions and the many players’ champions are (Jack Nicklaus), (Tiger Woods), (Scottie Scheffler) and I, so it’s a pretty group to be part of it,” Mcilroy said on Monday.

But then Mcilroy’s duality increased his head last.

While still entering the golden atmosphere of his latest triumph, Mcilroy was asked how the latest heart strikes in 2024 US Open and other tournaments have helped him build scarf and prepare him not to repeat the story. He took a moment, as if that chirp in the 18th hole was still hanging in the Sharra air.

He discussed the work he had done on offseason after he came short in Pinhurst, Scottish Open and Wentworth.

“It doesn’t feel like making those mistakes in critical times like me before,” Mcilroy said. “I think much of this was just to learn from those mistakes. It’s a long career. You have to stay very patient. Yes, I would say some of those losses have helped me learn what to do when I am in those positions again.”

As is always the case with Mcilroy, the celebration of achievement quickly fades and is replaced by irresponsible questions about how he will deal with what awaits him on the horizon.