Sir Nick Faldo said that the Masters Triumph triumph triumph Tiger Woods’ Augusta National Victory as early as 2019, when Butch called Northern IR, “one of the biggest days of golf we will ever see”.
Eleven years, when he claimed his previous main title – PGA Championship in 2014 – and 14 of the fact that four eccentric leadership took place before the last rounds in the Masters, McIlroy secured his first green jacket with Play -off victory over Justin Rose.
He led Bryson Brazambeau two strokes before he left, just to make the first bogey first, set up a nervous day when he had four advantageous advantages in one stage, and then missed a short par in the 18th to win in regulatory time.
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Watch the main points of the McIlroy roller coaster and win the Masters
World 2 held its nerve on the first play -off hole to become the sixth man -and the first European -to win all four majority at least once, join Woods, Gene Sarazen, Ben Hogan, Jack Nicklaus and Gary Player.
Master Master Master Nick Faldo said Sky Sports“When Tiger won here in 2019 (earning his first main title in 11 years), I said the scene would never be closed, but I was wrong.
“For a man who will do it after 11 years – Rory is now a legend. He is 35 years old and a legend. And what?! Is that a remarkable success.”
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Sky Sports Puntit said, “I think we saw one of the biggest days in the golf we ever see. He had an outflow and stream with which the Hollywood producer could not come. If you wrote such a script, they would say it wasn’t believable.
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McIlroy is thinking about what his victory Masters will mean for his family because he has received his green jacket since last year’s winner Scottie Scheffler
“Double-BODOYS, BIRDIES, Missing Three Foots, they interfere with junk. I will never forget this day. I have never seen an emotion on a golf course.
“He was like a gladiator in the way he returned. He stopped? No. He hung his head? No. He felt for himself? No. Now he has a green jacket.
“I have known Rory since he was 16, sometimes he has done a little work with him, and this is one of the most amazing victories I’ve ever seen.”
McIlroy looked ready to end his long waiting for the fifth major during last year’s US Open, just to be redesigned to Drazhambeau after three bogeys over his last four holes, which included missed Putty from two feet and three feet at 16 and 18.
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McIlroy won the Masters with Birdie on the first playoffs
On Sunday, there were also a National Wobbles-Job Bogey, another at the age of 13, Bogey at 15, and then the Children’s Putt from a near range at 18-but Lasered access to the first playoffs and then created McIlroy’s history.
Former Captain European Ryder Cup Paul McGinley said about McILroy: “It is good for the game to have another Grand Slam champion, but there is also a human element of resistance and jumping back.
“Over the past 11 years, he has been beaten occasionally, let the opportunities slip, and today the microcosm of the last 11 years, fell and returned up, fell and stood up.
“He did it four times today and it requires so much energy, so I’m full of admiration that shows so much strength. The human story.”
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McIlroy praises a childhood friend and Caddy Harry Diamond after the Masters victory
So, will they be a bigger victory for McILRoy now?
Dame Laura Davies added: “Now he could win five or six other owners, because he will never feel pressure like this again, trying to get Grand Slam. He went through and won.
“It was one of the most amazing sports moments I have witnessed.”
What will be for McIlroy?
This week, McIlroy will sit from the Heritage of RBC, the latest PGA Tour signature action before returning to the event from 24 to 27 April – next to Shane Lowry – as defending classics in New Orleans.
He also returns as a defending champion at the Championship-leader, the Wells Fargo Championship from 8 to 11 May, an event he has won four times, and sailed to five winning winnings last year.
This event is played outside the Quail Hollow club, because the next week the PGA championships will try to win the Wanamaker trophy for the third time and demand the second consecutive major.
