Rory McIlroy ends decade of hurt with stunning win in sporting masterpiece a decade in the making

There would always be tears for Rory Mcilroy.

Throughout a final round of Revolto’s teachers who would make a successful Hollywood box office success and had more than a similar passenger with his career as a whole, tears were the only certainty.

The only question was, what kind were they going to be?

This was a man who had been trying for a decade to win another specialty.

The 11 -year gap since Mcilroy last won a specialization, in the 2014 Open, is the one of all of all time.

The greatest amount of time that took any of the five previous men to have won the Golf Grand Slam to complete the set was three years.

“This is my 17th time here,” Mcilroy said within the opulent staging edges of the Butler of Augusta.

You don’t need to marvel anymore.

As soon as he sank his historical putt in Green 18, tears began to flow.

As soon as the crowd roared, his putter landed somewhere behind him in these perfectly careful green of Augusta National, grass to which he was constantly sinking while the noise stirred and roared around him, those tears were inevitable.

And why would I not cry?

The main victories rarely run from the mill.

All are special in their own way.

But there was more than a little special in this.

Not because of the skills.

Mcilroy’s final round was a long way from being brilliant, with two double bogeys, carrying a 73 one for its final score.

While Justin Rose was emerging, his 66 left the back of 10 Birdies that dragged him from seven shots to a play-off victory putt.

You have to feel for Rose.

No one would have taken the bad role in this: the winner of the United States Open 2013 ended as second in a specialty for the fifth time in his career. The third time in Augusta.

And for a while he must have felt that it was his losing.

But in these cases, it is not always about brilliance.

It is not even about luck.

This is the contest.

The battle between the two teammates of the Ryder Cup could be distilled in something similar to a modern masterpiece of sport, its defective brilliance simply adds to its power.

Rose described the moment as a “historical” for golf, and that it was “great to be able to share that moment with him” while the couple hugged the Play-Offer.

There were moments when Mcilroy set up his fate, a couple of nearby meetings with street trees in the nine strikers that somehow went well, along with a minor miracle in the 11 that saw the ball failing in the drink for less than half foot.

But then the brightness was.

The curling approach shot on the 15th that had everyone standing and McCilroy with the opportunity of an eagle so that the tournament is safe.

That was matched only by his approach of 17, Mcilroy murmuring “Go, Go, Go” to the ball while cutting the edge of the green and rolled a couple of feet of the flag.

These moments made the crowd roar, singing the name of Mcilroy.

It was those moments who had members of the Holywood Golf Club in Northern Ireland alternating their faces and standing to roar their approval.

But the moments that really mattered? Those who really make the difference between winning and losing?

All were in the Mcilroy sand.

“When I arrived at the wedge fired in the stream on the 13th, I felt that I did a good job when recovering,” Mcilroy said about the moment it seemed that the demons of 2011, when he delivered a practical advantage in the back of this same course, were going to overwhelm him.

“Double Bogey to the first,” he added.

“I was really nervous.

This is how it appeared too.

In spite of that reverse early and the calls nearby immediately afterwards, Mcilroy was still smiling, joking with his caddie and apparently comfortable with the way things came out.

The enormity of his mistake in 13 seemed to delay a fraction, as well as the lost putts that could have allowed him an earlier advantage and even the victory in 18.

Then there were emotions. The face locked in a grimace, a nervous look at his feet.

Perhaps the fact that Bryson Dechambeau, who had reviewed him in Pinehurst, during the US Open last year, from two return shots with five holes to claim the crown for himself, had not seen himself anywhere helped Mcilroy to be resettled.

Dechambeau had taken a joint advantage in the first hole and the direct advantage in the second before Mcilroy defended himself, one of the three leadership changes over the course of the day when Rose and Ludvig åberg challenge themselves at the top.

But Mcilroy, who led by two shots, then four shots, and then for a single shot in the course of the round, only to be linked every time, he replied magnificently.

“All week I responded to setbacks and that is what I will remember,” said Mcilroy.

“I am very proud of that and be able to recover.”

Together with the long drought, there has been the incestuous golf war between the PGA and Liv, a war that has cooled in intensity and apparently is not far from being resolved.

But Mcilroy has been the face of that battle. The symbol of the establishment. The status quo.

For a man who had not won a specialization in 10 years or more, that is a burden of supporting, particularly given the placement of the Golf Messiah, Tiger Woods.

It is a burden of which your family has been aware.

“They have been on this trip with me all the way,” Mcilroy said.

“They know the burden I have taken to come here every year and try, try and try again.

“The only thing I would tell my daughter Poppy is never, never, to give up your dream.

“Keep returning, keep working hard and if you put your mind, you can do anything. I love you.”

So it is not surprising if there were tears.

“I would say that 14 years passed,” said Mcilroy.

“Exit with a four -shooting advantage in 2011 and feel that I could have done it there.

“A lot of accumulated emotion came out in green 18.

“A moment like that makes every year and all nearby calls are worth it.”

Perhaps it would be appropriate to leave the last word to one of the other men in the most exclusive golf club, Gary Player.

“Today’s drama ran with his play-off victory was simply destined to be,” Player wrote in X.

“This is one of the most rare and difficult achievements in all sport, something that only six golfers have been achieved in history.

“We are proud to add Rory to our exclusive club and has undoubtedly established the standard for its time.

“It was 11 years ago when Rory began the final stage of Grand Slam’s trip of his career. And during all this time, he has taken class, directed with principle and played with passion.

“For him finally putting on his green jacket in golf is a time to be held by fans around the world. Rory has left his mark in history, and all of us who love this game are incredibly proud.

“Well done, my friend. Welcome to our club.”

Welcome to the Rory Club. And thanks for taking us all with you on this crazy trip.