My being is 3 years old. He likes the space and is obsessed with all planets. Other interests of him include animals (he loves the zoo or aquarium) and trains.
When he wasn’t even a year old, my favorite baseball team, the Houston Astros, won the World Series. The night it happened, my wife and I credo his room and I let her take a picture of me who held my Jose Altuve sweater up in front of his bed. I cherish that photo.
Sports have that kind of power. I will remember that moment from the night that the Astros won the World Series in 2022 for general reasons, but also because I partially shared it with my son. I do not know the details, but I am sure you have one or two story that is an important moment in your life for an occasion in which a team of you has subjected incredibly. Hopefully it was a title!
You are the kind of emotions that swallow in me all week, while watching the 89th game of the masters. If you read our staff ficks here when playing thisy Snow that I let my heart talk. I chose Rory Mcilroy and ended my Spiel like this:
The idea that Rory would win the Masters has always felt epic, and that idea still does it in many ways. But what I learned at this point in life is that I can also experience those epic nits in the journey. Choosing Rory is always epic. It has been losses if you came to Augusta, but that does not mean that it was not epic.
Rory spoke this week and actually summarized my thoughts about life, golf, him and the word epic at the same time. I will often have that I will never choose him to win the masters again Beckales that it feels so foolish on the face (those reasons are also clear).
But me Want to To choose Rory. That Is what is now epic for me. And if I have read something as I said, it is that I am the car of what I feel that is epic.
Rory Mcilroy will win the Masters on Sunday. I said it. I believe so. I want it.
It happens.
And here we are.
It is Saturday evening while I write and Rory a 2-shot lead on Bryson Dechambeau, the man who surpassed him last season at the US Open. That fateful day in Pinehurst looks like it would finally be the day (Day) That Rory put an end to his large championship drying that is now surprising to more than 10 years in size.
In those 10 years, and the large championship filled part of Rory’s career that preceded and a lot of life. I met my wife, we moved a bit, achieved personal and professional success (and had setbacks) and clearly had my that.
Rory, you served as an undercurrent through soy -crucial moments in my life. As far as the 35-year-old guy is concerned, I have that in common with so many people. We did not walk the exact walk he has, the lonely in Pinehurst or special Augusta, but we have cows and roar and lost and defined. Again … sports have that kind of power.
And here we are.
This is the closest that Rory has been to kill the dragon that has escaped him (and us) all the time. It is not only that it can now break its big championship drying, it is also that the career has completed Grand Slam. Oh, it is also that his name finally has under the must Illustrious to have played this great game and having won this prestigious tournament.
Although I am a fan of the Houl Astros, I am also a fan of the Dallas Cowboys (that is also the team that I treat here at SB Nation and what I spend the most time with obsessed). Rory is lucky in that Are Dught is only about a third of the size of the cowboys and so I am quite used to staring into the ocean on which I am trapped. I have wondered days and days and days that have been in Yars and years and years (decades before the cowboys) or we will ever return to glory.
The great philosopher Papa Roach once said that we are tearing our hearts open to sew ourselves. He noticed that our weakness is that we give too much.
We give too much to. We care about Rory, not because he is our favorite golfer or scholaude that he is in the area forever. We care about him because he had his heart tear open and had to sew back if it was in Pinehurst last year, the old race in 2022 or any other moment from the many options you want to use as an example.
And here He Sit. Rory is still standing. He is still fighting. He is still haunting. While he has failed and has evolved and evolved and grown, we did all that in our own individual ways in our own layers of life. We are not professional golfers who want to seal a victory that makes us immortal in the game as he is, but we have experienced the same rise and fall in parallel with him for one collective journey.
Each of us has our own version of the 2011 masters or 2022 open or 2024 US Open in how we got here. To finish the teachings of Papa Roach, the scars of them remind us that the past is real. We don’t have to run for it.
But we can read and use it while we are making progress in life, on what is for you and me. It just happens that it is for Rory McIlroy it is in the last combination of the Masters Onyy, an afternoon with the man who was trophy in Pinehurst.
Whatever the case … We will be there with Rory who surpassed it all.