No Masters champion has ever posted four double bogeys and won. None has ever started a round with six successive threes, none has ever made 30 threes in a week. None has thrown so many gains over the side and recovered the losses in such heart-stopping fashion. The final afternoon was universally acclaimed as the most dramatic Masters climax ever, and there have been a few of those.
— The Masters (@TheMasters) April 13, 2025
But more than all of that, none has ever taken us along with him to the same degree. It seemed the whole of Augusta was rooting for McIlroy, even the patriots cheering for Bryson DeChambeau at the start of the day.
Sport is all about identifying the one, the next great player who might dominate the stage. And the younger the better. Wayne Rooney in football reckoned himself the best player at Everton at 15. Boris Becker was a Wimbledon champion at 17, Tom Daley was diving for Olympic medals at 14. The ever-greater exposure forced upon them forging an emotional bond with their audience denied to the rank and file.
The Augusta patrons salute their champion on the 18th green (Photo: Reuters)The following year he was third at the Open and again at the PGA Championship. And at the first major of 2011, he etched his name into Masters folklore, first by building a four-shot lead and then by blowing it in a devastating collapse that came to define his relationship with this event. None was talking about the winner, Charles Schwartzel, who birdied the last four holes to fulfil his own dreams.
Two months later he was a major champion for the first time, claiming the US Open at Congressional by a record margin. Both events shared the same epic characteristic, the lows and the highs compelling in their own unmissable ways. He would go on to add the PGA Championship (twice) and the Open in the next three years to fill the void left by the declining Tiger Woods.
Grand slam winners in men’s golf
Rory McIlroy has become just the sixth player to complete the career Grand Slam of winning all four majors in men’s golf: The Masters, the PGA Championship, the US Open and the Open.
Gene Sarazen (1935) Ben Hogan (1953) Gary Player (1965) Jack Nicklaus (1966) Tiger Woods (2000) Rory McIlroy (2025)McIlroy is as human as the rest of us, his emotions betrayed by body language that cuts through any language barriers. Few were surprised when those emotions tightened his limbs at critical times on Sunday nor when he found the strength and character to hit the most incredible shots under pressure. Few will forget the approaches to 15 and 17, and again at 18 during the play-off, shots delivered when the heat was molten and almost everybody had written him off.
Rory McIlroy hits it to two feet on No. 17. #themasters pic.twitter.com/zY6tdgqZ13
All that is behind him now. McIlroy became a hall-of-famer on Sunday at Augusta, fulfilling an ambition first stoked at seven-years-old watching with his father at home in Holywood as Woods laid the foundations of his legend around the same course. Woods has company now, a golfing great who might yet put more bullion in the major vault.
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