Rory McILroy fulfilled her date with the history of Golf by winning the Masters, one of the greatest golf minds that play a key role on her way to Grand Slam Glory.
McIlroy became only a sixth person who completed the Grand Slam career – and first from Tiger Woods – with his dramatic Play -off victory in Augusta National and beat Justin Rose on the first hole to end the eleven -year -old waiting for the fifth main title.
Northern Irishman has been carrying the Grand Slam’s career in the last decade, while McIlroy using the legendary sports psychologist Dr. Bob Rotella helped deal with the mental challenge of returning to great glory.
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When Scottie Scheffler placed a green jacket on McIlroy when he is crowned Master Masters 2025
His clients won more than 75 male and female large societies, including Padraig Harrington and Darren Clarke, while McIlroy regularly emphasized Rotel’s importance in his mindset and mental resistance in pressure solving.
“I would say that stay in the bubble is probably the word we use the most,” Rotella Rotella said Sky Sports. “It’s the world you create when you are on a golf course where you are just lost in your own world. Be rory, get lost in Rory and have fun to be rory.
“When you are in that world, you can play. As a player you get into thinking where you will learn to take where you can play golf.
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“There are so many different personalities that you will learn to act and you have to be yourself. I think everyone in the field would like to be in their situation.”
McIlroy experienced the 21 best 10 Major, without winning the PGA championship in 2014, which failed to convert a 54-man’s share of Open in ST Andrews in 2022 before publishing at the US Open.
“I think everyone else speaks of this scar tissue, but we never talk about the tissue of scar,” Rotella explained. “I think anyone who is a great athlete, especially at this level, managed to forget.
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After the long -awaited triumph of Masters for McILroy, he jokes that he is no longer a point of speaking tournament
“You know, there is a great quote Mark Twain, where the inability to forget is infinitely devastating than the inability to remember. We go to school and it’s all about remembering things, while in sport it is all about forgetting.
“I think the great ones are really, really good. It is part of it and part of it is that they go:
“There are a lot of good things you do when you get rivalry. I think it’s really good in that he can do it, and that’s what we’re talking about. We’re talking about all the good things you do and you have to do it – that’s a challenge.
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Winner 2025 Masters McILroy sits down to think about his victory in Augusta after years of disappointment
Soon a sign of what could be for McIlroy this season came with a remarkable completion of his previous campaign, where he published the three three best three endings on four starts on the World DP tour before requiring the World Championship in DP in Dubai.
He won his introductory PGA Tour from 2025 at AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-AM before playing players a month later, with McIlroy ending with a non-armor. In each of his first seven starts 2025.
“He really played all the time off -season, played a lot of golf here and abroad with a plan that he wanted to be ready at the beginning of the year to build because he liked where they were this year,” Rotella Rotella added.
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Sports psychologist Bob Rotella discusses how he works with Rory McILroy to improve her thinking
“He worked on his mind and began a year as he loved him. If you remember when he went to Pebble, he was clever enough to start talking about never, never in California and” man, it’s like going to Augusta, I never won there before “.
“I think it helped that two putt on 18 on Sunday (for players) from about 80 feet and produce about five feet on the last hole – all of this was really good building.
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The most important points from the last round of the Masters in Augusta National when McILroy completed the Grand Slam in his career after defeating Justin Rose in the playoffs
“We had several very specific goals and really try to be in great thinking and there is a feeling when he knows he is playing his best golf.
“Our main goal was to feel so all the time we are on the golf course.”
Hope for Grand Slam Glory suffered early failure when he produced two double bogeys in three hole sections of his opening round 72, so seven strokes back, but the interview with Rotella helped inspire an impressive fight and back 66s.
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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
“The wheels appear when you lose peace and lose your mind – returned to par 16 and made great up and down for a par for 18 years,” Rotella added.
“He got two bad results on nice shots? Yeah. But he kept calm and felt very good about all of it. He would you rather go to the hole or make a birdie at 15? Yeah.
“I think he could realize,” I like where my head was on these shots, just didn’t get the result and could dwell. ” We are all about that, and that’s what the mental toughness is all about.
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Paul McGinley breaks down McIlroy’s putt on the 15th hole during the opening round of Masters that ended up in the water
“This game can make you incredibly happy and it can break the heart, you just want to get there and that’s it.
Bryson Brazambeau claimed that McIlroy refused to talk to him during the last day of the roller coaster, while McIlroy was fully focused on crossing the line and securing the green jacket
After his victory, after his victory on several occasions on several occasions on several occasions collapsed emotional
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McIlroy praises a childhood friend and Caddy Harry Diamond after the Masters victory
“I’m sure it will be a very amazing feeling and very satisfactory feeling for all the work and effort he gave it because what he really does is the persecution of his potential,” Rotella Rotella added.
“He just wants to find out how great he can get into golf, how far he can go and how much things he can achieve. How do you know after doing it next week (media) say,” Yeah, but you can do it again “?
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Andrew Coltart is discussing how important McILroy’s Master’s victory is not only for his career but his reputation
“Then they say,” But you can win another major “or” can you win all the big companies?
McIlroy began his week in Augusta National by talking about his childhood dream of winning Masters. With Rotell, he made his eight -year -old self very proud.
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