AUGUSTA, Ga. — Rory McIlroy turned one other main collapse into his grandest efficiency of all, hitting a wedge into 4 ft for birdie in a sudden-death playoff towards Justin Rose Sunday to lastly win the Masters and take his place in golf historical past because the sixth participant to say the profession Grand Slam.
What ought to have been a coronation alongside the again 9 at Augusta Nationwide was a heart-racing, lead-changing jaw-dropping end at golf’s biggest theater that ended with McIlroy on his knees sobbing with pleasure and disbelief.
He misplaced a two-shot lead in two pictures at the beginning. He misplaced a four-shot lead on the again 9 in a matter of three holes with surprising misses, one among them a wedge into the tributary of Rae’s Creek on the par-5 thirteenth.
And proper when it regarded as if he would blow one other main, he delivered two majestic pictures when nothing much less would do.
McIlroy went 11 lengthy years with out a main, understanding the Masters inexperienced jacket was all that stored him from becoming a member of Tiger Woods, Jack Nicklaus, Gary Participant, Ben Hogan and Gene Sarazen as the one winners of golf’s 4 skilled majors.
By Doug Ferguson
