Augusta, Ga. – from a navigation runway on the 15th hole in Augusta National, Bryson Brazambeau He had a clear look at what was going on below.
On the green, Rory McILroy He landed his second shot like a feathers and left only 6 feet for an eagle. Even if he couldn’t see the ball in, the roar of the patrons told OchoMbeau everything he needed to know: McIlroy did his second eagle of the day, he pushed him on 12 under par and five shots in front of Brazambeau.
When four holes were left, Mcilroy was catching very attractive, but it was Saturday in Masters, so the double winner of the US Open simply thought of his mind.
“Get to the final pairing.”
Drahambeau replied McILroy’s eagle with Birdie 15. On the 16th hole he made a short birdie putt and stopped seeing the pond and forward until the 17th.
“Rory was moving a little forward. He was at the age of 12 and I was chasing a little,” Drazhambeau said. “When I did it, I looked up and said like a statement:” I’m still here. I’ll continue. I won’t go back down. “
Here we go again.
Almost 10 months after the thrilling target at the US Open in Pinehurst, they placed a breaking heart on McILroy’s plates and at the same time granted the triumph of Brazambeau, both of them headed by a large championship in balance. This time they are together in the final group. This time they are masters on the line.
“I think I still have to remind myself that there is a long journey, 18 holes,” McIlroy said after shooting a low lap of the day to lead two. “Me, like anyone else, I know what can happen on the last day.”
There is no battle between good and evil, no disputes between LIV and PGA Tour, simply two of the best golfers in the world who are trying to trigger the most sought -after garment of the game.
Their games are sometimes similar. Both can bend the courses at their will with their driver-this week are on the terrain 1-2 in the field-and often rely on volatility of their access games or to determine their score. But to say that Brazambeau and McILroy are polar opposites would be an underestimation.
All you had to do to see so much was to look at their relevant walks of 18. Green. McIlroy made on his last three holes, and when he was Serenaded and became ovations for his bike, only a solemn nodded into his constituency could gather. Brazambeau finished the bike with electric shock to the system-48-Naha Birdie Putt to 18-A responded by producing a foster pump before it went along the rope line and the high launch of everyone he could on his way to the scoring area.
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The crowd explodes when the breathmbeau releases a long birdie
Bryson Brazambeau moves in two strokes of Rory Mcilroy at the top of the ranking with this long birdie putt at 18.
“That forces me to concentrate more,” Drachhambeau said about how he interacts with fans. “It’s a fun thing that whenever I feel like I live into the crowd, especially patrons here, they put this energy back and it’s a great feeling.”
On the golf course (and scope), Brazambeau chases the optimal angles to the market and the speed of the ball, while McIlroy continues the harp of the fact that what is after that is not a number or even score, but the feeling of being controlled.
“If I could have the feeling,” McIlroy said, “and if I can go home tonight and look in the mirror before I go to sleep and be like:
Brazambeau is a showman who does everything with an aplomb and a kind of fire that seems to shine over what is under him. McILroy is not afraid to lay bare what is under the surface. He says he has anxiety energy, writing notes in his yardage books to encourage himself during the round. He decompresses the book John Grishama, the “Bridgerton” episode, or, as on Saturday morning, by watching “zootopia” with his daughter and trying to stay outside the phone. Brazambeau is also a film guy; But he will watch James Bond.
“When I look at my phone, I don’t have a problem with it,” said oshambeau, who has a YouTube channel with millions of followers.
While Brazambeau speaks of feeding the madness of people around him, McILroy knows how much he will have to work on Sunday to not only win, but to commit to his approach and behavior between a crowd of patrons whose energy will inevitably play a role in management.
“Tomorrow in the final group it will be a bit noisy and a little loud,” McIlroy said. “I have to stay in my little bubble, hold my head down.”
It is the same energy from the crowds that Brazambeau plans to avoid, but accepts, at least until he has to hit another shot.
“It’s a lot like to react and be who I am,” Boshbeau said. “Which, guys, you can say what you want, but I’m just a little different.”
Sunday will provide a sufficient phase for these differences between them to show up. And yet it is already written in the script: because McIlroy won his last major, Brazambeau won two.
There is almost no need to read the heart fragments that McIlroy has experienced; They became as part of his story as four large companies that won from 2011 to 2014. At the old course of 2022, McILroy was stuck in neutral as neutral as Cameron Smith He chased him and won the jug Claret. In 2023 US Open in LACC could not create comeback to Outlast Wyndham Clark. Pinehurst last year was the most brutal destination. McIlroy missed two short putty and could just watch When Brazambeau got up and down to 18 to beat him.
Then there are masters of 2011, where at the age of only 21, McILroy was four -member leading to the last round before he shot 80 and left with an empty hand.
“That was 14 years ago,” McIlroy said as he asked about this tournament. “I’m glad to have a short memory.”
On paper there is a Grand Slam 18 holes between McIlroy and his career. In fact, there have been 11 years of close calls and heart fractures, and now, the last giant that could not kill a year ago and stood in the way. The giant, who enjoys the chance to re -enter the boiler, holds his leg on the accelerator and plays a spoiler in the accessory.
“We both want to win very badly. It will be an electric atmosphere,” Brazambeau said. “It will be the biggest phase we had in a long time.”
