Rory Mcilroy finished his long wait for a Masters title with a Birdie in the opening hole of a sudden death playoff to overcome Justin Rose and claim the Grand Slam of his career after a final round of the nerves.
After missing a 5 -foot putt in the 18th in regulation that forced the playoffs on Sunday, Mcilroy made sure that he did not let his last chance that Major Glory escapes and returned to the same hole in the playoff, placing his cup application.
When the winning putt fell, Mcilroy raised his arms to the clear sky and let his putter fall behind him when he fell on his knees surpassed by emotion.
Mcilroy then hugged his wife, Erica, and his daughter, Poppy, like songs or “Rory! Rory!” Classify around the Green, while he headed to the butler cabin to collect the green jacket that almost threw before a back-nine stumble.
“There was a lot of accumulated emotion that has just arrived in that Green 18,” said Mcilroy just before sliding over the duration of the green jacket, the presentation ceremony. “A moment like that makes every year and all nearby calls are worth it.”
With the victory, Mcilroy joins Gene Sarazen, Ben Hogan, Gary Player, Jack Nicklaus and Tiger Woods as the only golfers to win each of the four main championships.
Mcilroy, 35, arrived at the first specialty of the year, where in 2011 he launched a four -shooting advantage in the nine behind, looking for his first specialty since August 2014 to finish a race that Wat arrived with his fair part of Near Misses.
Lead disappeared
For a time late in the closing round it seemed that Mcilroy once headed to great anguish, since the golfers exchanged positions in the classification table at an amazing pace.
Mcilroy had a bone with total control when he reached the return, but surprisingly surprised a seemingly comfortable advantage of four shots and then delivered two of the best shots of his late race to keep his hopes alive.
In the 15th hole this, Mcilroy hit a remarkable drawing that was curved around some branches and on the pond in front of the green where his ball settled six feet away. He missed the Águila putt, but the Birdie moved him to a shot from Rose.
After Rose, who played five groups ahead, leveled with a 20 feet foot for Birdie in the 18th hole, Mcilroy re -entered her trick of tricks with a masterful blow in the 17th 17th 17th, where her 197 -yard puprach stopped the pedd ped H with pedd ped ted Hed Ped Hed Hed Ped Hed Hed Hed Ped Hed Ped Ped Ped Hed Ped Hed Ped Ped Ped Ped Ped Ped Ped Ped pedd
“This is my 17th time here, and I start asking if it would ever be my time,” said Mcilroy, the first European to win a great blow of the career of the four major male.
“I think the last 10 years that come here with the burden of Grand Slam on my shoulders and trying to achieve that, yes, he asks me about what we are all going to talk about in the teachers of next year.”
A lot to learn
He marked more heartbreak for Rose, who lost in a 2017 playoff against Sergio García and now has finished second place three times in Augusta National.
The former US Open champion. Rose, burned the nine on the road to 66 under a 66th of 66 that was the round of the day in the day of the day, but the 44 -year -old Englishman was lost a 15 -foot putt Birdie that Windeld has extended the playoffs.
“You can’t jump a race without a little anguish,” said Rose, who was offering to join Nick Fald and Danny Willett as Masters winners from England.
“It will not happen. If you are willing to lift the great championships, you must put yourself at stake. You have to risk feeling this way of obtaining the opposite.”
Bryson Dechambeau, who overwhelms the day in second place and two shots behind Mcilroy, fell into a part of the fifth place after a closure of three superiors 75 left it at seven under the week and four shots outside the leadership.
“There is much to remove this week, much to learn, a lot to be proud or, a lot to be angry,” said Dechambeau, who Hero is absolute leadership after two holes. “But I learned a lot, and I’m ready to take the challenge again.”
Former champion Patrick Reed was alone in third, two shots outside the leadership, while Scottie Scheffler, who was forcing himself to become the fourth player to repeat as Masters champion, finished an additional shot in the room.
“In general, I wouldn’t say I had my best things, but I struggled very hard all week,” Scheffler said.
“This was the best thing I was mentally all year. I think my game was there.”
