AUGUSTA, G. – As Rory McIlroy began his pre-Masters meeting on Tuesday, he glance at a nearby video conference where a photo of him was shown on the 72nd hole. 2022 Championship.
This was the final hit in McIlroy’s final attempt to become the sixth golfer to complete a major during the Masters era, and he seem to believe this was the change in his willingness to join the game, albeit unsatisfactory. The most elite fraternity in sports. His 8-point exclamation point in the final lap 64 places him in a lone second place on the leaderboard, three strokes behind champion Scotty Scheffler.
“All I can say is I prove to myself I can do it,” said McIlroy. “While I didn’t really have a controversy, last year some of the team nine felt like I had a chance and played the way I did, hit the eagle 13 and had that feeling, I think, but I think it’s such a breakthrough.”
McIlroy has won four majors, 23 on the PGA Tour and 15 in Europe. He has been number one in the world nine times in his career, most recently in the last two months. Now second only to Scheffler, he is a favorite for winning the Masters and adding a tough green jacket to his wardrobe.
McIlroy, who finally finished the major in his ninth attempt and ended the drought in which he hadn’t held a major title in more than eight years, had to contend with Augusta’s lightning-fast greens and the nation’s best player field for more battles in the world. He also has to deal with the ghosts and scars that haunt his past Masters failures.
“Not every experience will be good,” said McIlroy. “I think that makes life so boring. You know, you have to learn from the difficulties and some of the wounds. Last year I felt I needed to get rid of some scars and I felt like I had some stretch marks.
When Rory McIlroy made his Augusta debut in 2009 with messy hair and a frail body, the Northern Irishman was destined to win the Masters.
Now, 14 years later, we still expect him to win.
“What did he do? said 1992 Masters champion Fred Couples. “I don’t know.” Is it any wonder he never won this one? Of course, the way he hits the ball and the way he puts it down [along with] how high he hits it and how far he hits it. But it’s not easy.”
McIlroy is close to victory. In addition to last year’s tournament, he finished fourth in 2015 and fifth in 2018 and 2020. Jack Nicklaus, Tiger Woods, Ben Hogan, Gary Player and Gene Sarazen have a chance to join the four majors of golf. are the only players to win, but are disqualified in a bad game at Augusta National.
“They said the same thing to Ernie Els and Greg Norman,” said McIlroy. previously mentioned by the players. You know, this class is for players who have never won a green shirt. This was in the back of my mind too. Just because a place is considered the perfect place for your game doesn’t mean you’ll win one day. too much for that.
So, can a final race or a shot from the green airport undo all the bad things that happened in the past? Ben Crenshaw knows a thing or two about pain and scars. Although Crenshaw won the Masters with two green jackets in 1984 and 1995, he played 8 to 0 in his PGA Tour career, including losing to the PGA Championship in 1979. David Graham, this is one of his five. finish second in the big competition.
The pain still looks fresh for the 71-year-old Texan, even after all these years, as he stands under the oak tree of the clubhouse and takes his first shot this week at the Augusta National Golf Club.
“You always remember that pain,” said Crenshaw. “In a way, we all feel it because we’ve all been there. Sometimes flashbacks happy and get lost in your head. It’s hard to explain how she got rid of it. ”
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Augusta’s McIlroy has more scars than Thick, leading by four shots in the 2011 Masters final. McIlroy looked trembling with fear from the start in the final couple Angel Cabrera.
He bogey the first hole and had to crawl into an even bunker on the second. He persevered and fired 1 shot in the front nine in the next round.
Then, McIlroy was crush under the pressure as everyone from Woods to Jason Day to Adam Scott to Char Schwartzel tried to catch him. His tee shot on the 4th hole of the 10th hole hit a large tree on the left. Anyway, his ball landed about 70 yards from the grass road, between the trees between the two grass paths.
CBS Sports Broadcasting analyst and three-time Masters champion Nick Faldo couldn’t believe where McIlroy’s ball landed.
“My God,” said Faldo. “It must have hit a tree. It was no more than 150 meters from Tee.”
CBS Sports live broadcaster Jim Nantz said of the house, “I know you’ll love going to Butler Lodge.” Masters usually don’t like the green jacket,” but it’s a little early.”
Rory McIlroy dived onto the turf after seeing his ball, then hit it again with a 3-forward shot. After his fourth needle hit the leg, he couldn’t stand up and made the triple bogey Seven In one.
At Amen Corner, things are going to get worse for Rory McIlroy. At number 11 he put three for the bogey and at number 12 two for the bogey four. After hitting Rae’s Creek on the 13th hole, McIlroy looked defeated and buried his head in his left arm.
McIlroy scored 8 out of 80, the worst score in the tournament’s 75-year history. Unexpected South African champions Schwartzel’s 4 undershots
