Rory McIlroy

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This is a golf question, but it's also probably a question about what kind of person you are, or want to be, and to what extent your optimism has been obliterated in golf and life. When he comes, we'll shoot out both arms like little zaps of lightning, embracing the weird new move he taught us in that Georgia bunker. That was the start of three brilliant years, and you can't put a neat pin in the Moment When Everything Changed. In 2014, he was a killer in the majors, and a year later, he was not, and he hasn't been since. It didn't—even the leader four-putting on 18 couldn't get him within a country mile of the green jacket. On the side of inspiration/hope/joy, you have the spine-tingling emotions of Sunday. You have the reality of a second-place finish. Notice, will you, that when it kinda/sorta started to seem real right around the 13th hole, he didn't make another birdie on some very gettable holes. The one great horrific choke of his career actually came before his first major, at Augusta, when he shot a Sunday 80 to lose a four-shot lead. Of $*%&*% course Rory shot a 64 in Augusta and made it seem like it almost mattered. His brain is not broken, his physical gifts are extant, and a return to glory should just be a neurochemical or karmic twist away. Does it speak to someone who can be utterly spectacular in a major tournament, right at the exact moment when he can't really win anymore? Try to be a smug-slash-self-pitying neutral observer in the face of such awesome feats: Tony Jacklin, one of Europe's many historical near-analogues for Rory, won the Open Championship in '69 and the U.S. Open in '70, then lost the '72 Open in truly disgusting, heartbreaking fashion when Lee Trevino chipped in on the 17th hole from a losing position.

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I think there's always something to learn around Augusta National, I think he learned a lot yesterday. I believe that he can win. Wherever the flag is at, you have to have a game plan around where those pins are located. Yes, he has to get off to a better start in the majors going forward - 73s don't cut it, there's no doubt about that. But I thought what he did on Sunday was absolutely electrifying. He clearly did not have a swing on Thursday and Friday, there's no doubt about it.

Rory McIlroy's struggles at Augusta National have been well documented, but on Sunday at the Masters, he put that narrative to rest.

McIlroy’s spectacular Sunday vaulted him up the leaderboard and put him alone in second place. The 32-year-old carded six birdies, an eagle and zero bogeys on the day. And although he’s won four majors in the years since his first heartbreak, the green jacket has eluded him.

The world No 1 earned his first major in style as Rory McIlroy climbed to second with a remarkable round of 64.

It is astonishing to think that before the first of them, the Phoenix Open in February, Scheffler had not prevailed on the PGA Tour. He has been utterly relentless since. The 25-year-old made a birdie at the 15th, the final demonstration of a grip he was unwilling to loosen. To be precise: $2.7m, a Green Jacket and fourth victory of 2022. Not then short-sided into a bunker because of the slopes that they’ve created and stuff. If you hit a good shot, you should end up near the hole. It will not always be this way for Scheffler, it just feels otherwise at the moment. Zalatoris therefore finished in a share of sixth. Scheffler’s birdie at the 14th owed everything to a wonderful approach shot. Of the 18th scene, McIlroy said: “This tournament never ceases to amaze. Scheffler had found trouble on the 3rd, from where he could only leave an approach short of the green. McIlroy reached the turn in 32 and delivered a birdie at the 10th before punching the air at the time of his eagle on 13. The stuff of dreams.

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The Masters course record for a single round is 63. His 20-under par mark broke the tournament record of 18-under par that had previously been held by Tiger Woods and Jordan Spieth. He overcame a seven-stroke deficit by shooting 8-under par to win the tournament in 1978. A decade later, Greg Norman was able to match Price with a 63 during the first round of the 1996 Masters. That gave him a two-stroke lead over Phil Mickelson at the time. That shot put McIlroy within three strokes of Scheffler and made him the clubhouse leader when he exited the course. He was 10 strokes back of leader Scottie Scheffler when he teed off, and it didn't look like he would have a realistic shot at earning his first green jacket.

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His bogey-free round included six birdies and an eagle. It is one off the course record of 63 held by Nick Price (1934) and Greg Norman (1996). Rory McIlroy finished his remarkable final round at the 2022 Masters in style with an instantly-iconic shot the briefly gave him a hope of winning the tournament.

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He made two long putts from off the green -- a 30-footer on the seventh and a 39-footer on the 10th. I played for pars quite a lot, but in the course of a tournament, you are going to find some spots where you go on a birdie run, and you try to take advantage of some of the good golf that you play, and I did that today." He nearly drove the green on the par-4, 350-yard third and made a 4-footer. "Probably come up a little bit short, but I gave it a great go, and I can't ask any more of myself," McIlroy said. McIlroy has now finished in the top 10 at the Masters six times since completing three-fourths of the career grand slam. It hasn't always been a happy ending for McIlroy at Augusta National. In 2011, as a 21-year-old trying to win his first major championship, the Northern Irishman had a 4-shot lead going into the final round. On the par-4 18th, McIlroy hit his tee shot into a fairway bunker. It's just a matter of having that game for four days in a row and not making big numbers and shooting yourself in the foot, I guess. Then he hit his second shot into a greenside bunker on the right. His lead was trimmed to 1 shot going into the second nine. Seven previous times at Augusta National, McIlroy has tried to complete the career grand slam by winning a green jacket. His playing partner, Collin Morikawa, holed out from the same bunker a few moments later.

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He hit the ball left of the hole and let the back slope take the ball down for a kick-in par. On the narrow par-4 seventh, McIlroy hit his drive in the left rough and was left chipping a 7-iron on the ground between the two greenside bunkers. Needing to keep the ball down on the ground after another leftward tee shot, he hit his second shot to the front of the green and conjured a chip shot for his third that combined knowledge and skill. “I've played a really good round of golf, and it's my best-ever finish at Augusta. It's not quite enough, but I'll certainly look back on this day with very fond memories.” “And I'm not overanalyzing it and not looking at the video too much, and it feels pretty good. The ball rolled between the two bunkers and finished on the back fringe of the green, above the hole. For example, he took dead aim at the flag at the par-4 first with a wedge and drained a 9-footer for birdie. “He played phenomenal golf today,” said Collin Morikawa, who played alongside McIlroy on Sunday. “He put himself in some pretty tough spots, got out. J.J. (Jonathan Jakovac, Morikawa’s caddie) said he walked over there on that line and really didn't even see a gap running it up.” I think I was minus-three strokes gained on the first two days, but I played really nicely over the weekend.” That's what this tournament is all about, hang around until you get to a spot where you feel comfortable to be aggressive, and that was where I was today.” “I basically did everything I wanted to this week.

McIlroy had a huge final round on Sunday and punctuated it with a magical moment at 18.

Incredibly, just moments later, McIlroy's playing partner for Round 4, Collin Morikawa, also holed out from the bunker on No. 18 to finish his own Masters week in style. McIlroy, who began the day 10 strokes back of 54-hole leader and world No. 1 golfer Scottie Scheffler, punctuated his history-making day with a signature moment by holing out at the par-4 18th from the greenside bunker to get in at 7 under on the week and put a modicum of pressure on eventual Masters champion Scheffler. He finished three strokes off of Scheffler's Masters-winning 10 under and played his way into the $1.62 million prize of finishing as the runner-up.

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When players do what McIlroy did at the Masters, they first get interviewed in Butler Cabin, while the result of the event still hangs in the balance. This was the inverse of his debacle in 2011 when he blew a four-shot lead. So it felt important that while we all remember that 64th stroke of his afternoon, McIlroy said he was most pleased with stroke No. 42, strokes 44-45, 48-49 and 60-61. The way McIlroy talks about Augusta National, you’d think he was a 4-time champion, who could play whenever he wants, and who doesn’t need invites. McIlroy punched the air once, both arms uncontrollably extended, flipping his wedge into the sand like a home run hitter on a walk-off dinger. Rather, we’ll be thinking for many, many weeks to come about the one stroke he took from the greenside bunker on 18, and the 63 others that preceded it during a spellbinding final round.

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“It's a day to just hang in there and hang around. And given the fact that he hasn’t added a fifth title to his collection in almost eight years, such a policy is clearly not working. I took my tee shot a little further right on 3 in an effort to drive the green. Since then, however, he has not once seen his name at the top of a leader board at the conclusion of any round at any major. But if it does work out, I could have a day like this and have some fun.” In truth, this week was more of what has become an unadventurous same for McIlroy. Following a pattern that has become all too familiar, he appeared as if from almost nowhere to record his 24th top-10 in major championship play. Guess which of those two players is in the World Golf Hall of Fame? I took my tee shot a little further left on 2. In his first 25 major championship appearances, the now-32-year-old Belfast Boy led or co-led at the end of rounds on 17 occasions. The garment that means most to the only European golfer who has annexed three of the game’s four major championships is soon to take up residence in Scottie Scheffler’s closet, not his own. The same is true of Ireland. Four other Irishmen as well as McIlroy—Fred Daly, Padraig Harrington (twice), Darren Clarke and Shane Lowry—have Open Championship wins to their names. Harrington and McIlroy (twice) have each hoisted the formidable bulk of the Wanamaker Trophy skyward in the wake of PGA Championship victories.

2022 Masters: Rory McIlroy produced a sensational and historic round 63, on Sunday at Augusta National. Recording his best ever round at the Masters..

Rory went on to birdie the Par 5, 8th, and the Par 4,10th. Sunday at the 2022 Masters will be one that he never forgets as he produced a remarkable and historic round of golf. He sweetly-struck his third from the bunker and landed it well up the sloping green, the ball then proceeded to roll back down the slope curving towards the hole before finding the cup. The second was sweetly struck and it also safely found the green before inching its way down the slope and towards the hole. It was at this point and time that you felt like something special could be in the works for Rory McIlroy on Sunday. Having begun his final round with two birdies he really started to heat up when he came to the Par 4, 7th.

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So we ended up reaching out to the GEO Foundation, which does a lot of great sustainability work in golf, to help us go in the right direction.” And I just got this massive sense of guilt coming over me just because this can’t be good (for the environment). However, McIlroy’s greatest highlight on the course was yet to come. The 32-year-old splashed out from the bunker on the right of the green and holed for a birdie. On the 13th hole, McIlroy converted an eagle putt on the par-five, putting him seventh under for the day and on the way to a course record of 63. McIlroy started 10 shots behind first-place Scheffler on the final day and after birdies on the first and third hole, the Northern Irishman’s confidence began to grow.

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McIlroy didn't win the 2022 Masters, but he did provide the tournament with its most stunning shot, a magical wedge from a greenside bunker.

The fans gathered around the 18th green leaped to their feet and roared as McIlory walked triumphantly on the green pumping his fist before reaching down to get his ball out of the hole and throw it into the crowd. I went out there today, shot my best-ever score at Augusta and it’s going to be my best finish ever.” It was really cool.” When it disappeared into the cup, McIlroy tossed his club in delight, jumped, raised his arms, ran out of the bunker and hugged his caddie. It’s been a while since I’ve felt that.” But that was not his most notable Masters.