Rory McIlroy

Rory McIlroy and Collin Morikawa holed-out from same bunker on 18 for an incredible Masters moment at Augusta National Golf Club.

The sand-save earned McIlroy the week’s first bogey-free round as he shot up the leaderboard on the final day to post a 8-under 64 and put up a number at 7 under for the tournament, just three shots behind 54-hole leader Scottie Scheffler at the time. Both players found the back-right bunker behind Augusta National Golf Club’s final hole and both proceeded to hole-out on consecutive shots, sending the patrons into an absolute frenzy of cheers and chants of “Rory! Rory!” and “Collin! Collin!” This year at the 86th playing of the first men’s major of the year, it seemed like Tiger Woods’ return to competitive golf would take the crown.

AUGUSTA, Ga. — Rory McIlroy has had some dramatic moments at Augusta National. Nothing was quite as epic as his 18th hole and the celebration that ensued.

The 18th hole delivers iconic moments year after year. But as great players do, he manufactured an all-time great shot from the right greenside bunker, his ball rolling into the hole to cap a 64. Delivering a big charge on Sunday, he stalled out after getting it to seven under for the round through 13 holes after an eagle at 13.

Rory McIlroy, still stalking his first green jacket, had the Masters patrons roaring with a Sunday 64 capped by a holeout from the bunker at the 18th hole.

This week was the 32-year-old's eighth attempt to finish the career grand slam. "I've never heard roars like that at the 18th." To play as well as I did today, and to finish like this, it's absolutely incredible," McIlroy said after the round on the CBS broadcast.

The world No 1 earned his first major in style as Rory McIlroy climbed to second with a remarkable round of 64.

It is astonishing to think that before the first of them, the Phoenix Open in February, Scheffler had not prevailed on the PGA Tour. He has been utterly relentless since. The 25-year-old made a birdie at the 15th, the final demonstration of a grip he was unwilling to loosen. To be precise: $2.7m, a Green Jacket and fourth victory of 2022. Not then short-sided into a bunker because of the slopes that they’ve created and stuff. If you hit a good shot, you should end up near the hole. It will not always be this way for Scheffler, it just feels otherwise at the moment. Zalatoris therefore finished in a share of sixth. Scheffler’s birdie at the 14th owed everything to a wonderful approach shot. Of the 18th scene, McIlroy said: “This tournament never ceases to amaze. Scheffler had found trouble on the 3rd, from where he could only leave an approach short of the green. McIlroy reached the turn in 32 and delivered a birdie at the 10th before punching the air at the time of his eagle on 13. The stuff of dreams.

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His bogey-free round included six birdies and an eagle. It is one off the course record of 63 held by Nick Price (1934) and Greg Norman (1996). Rory McIlroy finished his remarkable final round at the 2022 Masters in style with an instantly-iconic shot the briefly gave him a hope of winning the tournament.

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The Masters course record for a single round is 63. His 20-under par mark broke the tournament record of 18-under par that had previously been held by Tiger Woods and Jordan Spieth. He overcame a seven-stroke deficit by shooting 8-under par to win the tournament in 1978. A decade later, Greg Norman was able to match Price with a 63 during the first round of the 1996 Masters. That gave him a two-stroke lead over Phil Mickelson at the time. That shot put McIlroy within three strokes of Scheffler and made him the clubhouse leader when he exited the course. He was 10 strokes back of leader Scottie Scheffler when he teed off, and it didn't look like he would have a realistic shot at earning his first green jacket.

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He made two long putts from off the green -- a 30-footer on the seventh and a 39-footer on the 10th. I played for pars quite a lot, but in the course of a tournament, you are going to find some spots where you go on a birdie run, and you try to take advantage of some of the good golf that you play, and I did that today." He nearly drove the green on the par-4, 350-yard third and made a 4-footer. "Probably come up a little bit short, but I gave it a great go, and I can't ask any more of myself," McIlroy said. McIlroy has now finished in the top 10 at the Masters six times since completing three-fourths of the career grand slam. It hasn't always been a happy ending for McIlroy at Augusta National. In 2011, as a 21-year-old trying to win his first major championship, the Northern Irishman had a 4-shot lead going into the final round. On the par-4 18th, McIlroy hit his tee shot into a fairway bunker. It's just a matter of having that game for four days in a row and not making big numbers and shooting yourself in the foot, I guess. Then he hit his second shot into a greenside bunker on the right. His lead was trimmed to 1 shot going into the second nine. Seven previous times at Augusta National, McIlroy has tried to complete the career grand slam by winning a green jacket. His playing partner, Collin Morikawa, holed out from the same bunker a few moments later.

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He made two long putts from off the green -- a 30-footer on the seventh and a 39-footer on the 10th. I played for pars quite a lot, but in the course of a tournament, you are going to find some spots where you go on a birdie run, and you try to take advantage of some of the good golf that you play, and I did that today." He nearly drove the green on the par-4, 350-yard third and made a 4-footer. "Probably come up a little bit short, but I gave it a great go, and I can't ask any more of myself," McIlroy said. McIlroy has now finished in the top 10 at the Masters six times since completing three-fourths of the career grand slam. It hasn't always been a happy ending for McIlroy at Augusta National. In 2011, as a 21-year-old trying to win his first major championship, the Northern Irishman had a 4-shot lead going into the final round. On the par-4 18th, McIlroy hit his tee shot into a fairway bunker. It's just a matter of having that game for four days in a row and not making big numbers and shooting yourself in the foot, I guess. Then he hit his second shot into a greenside bunker on the right. His lead was trimmed to 1 shot going into the second nine. Seven previous times at Augusta National, McIlroy has tried to complete the career grand slam by winning a green jacket. His playing partner, Collin Morikawa, holed out from the same bunker a few moments later.

Rory McIlroy finished his remarkable final round at the 2022 Masters in style – now he waits to see if his charge was enough.

It is one off the course record of 63 held by Nick Price (1934) and Greg Norman (1996). His bogey-free round included six birdies and an eagle. McIlroy, 32, chipped a bunker shot near the middle of the green at par-4 18 and saw it take a long and perfect left turn into the cup for a round-sealing birdie at Augusta on Sunday.

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As his ball trickled to the hole, it dropped in the centre, with McIlroy launching his club and producing an adrenaline-fuelled celebration that we haven't seen for some time! Four pars then followed at Augusta National (opens in new tab), with his drive at the 18th finding the fairway bunker. Playing with Collin Morikawa (opens in new tab), who also holed out at the very same bunker, McIlroy aimed his bunker shot at the last so far right of the pin you may have been confused as to what was occurring.

Rory McIlroy's struggles at Augusta National have been well documented, but on Sunday at the Masters, he put that narrative to rest.

McIlroy’s spectacular Sunday vaulted him up the leaderboard and put him alone in second place. The 32-year-old carded six birdies, an eagle and zero bogeys on the day. And although he’s won four majors in the years since his first heartbreak, the green jacket has eluded him.

The veteran golfer came into Sunday at one over but played like a man on fire in the final round of the Masters in Augusta, Georgia, shooting an eight-under 64, ...

But he gave Augusta a Sunday for the ages regardless of where he finishes. #themasters pic.twitter.com/C5CKQdNi1t #themasters pic.twitter.com/ZsUNfnyyJ8 #themasters pic.twitter.com/DWXrJxsA5A He is four under par today and tied for third place. Rory McIlroy is making his move. #themasters pic.twitter.com/qeeV1EkQnt "It's what you dream about. A brilliant roll at No. 7 moves McIlroy to two under for the Tournament. #themasters pic.twitter.com/BowR8LjYJT The Masters @TheMasters The Masters @TheMasters Rory McIlroy ties the lowest final-round score in Masters Tournament history with a 64.

This is the second-lowest 18-hole score in a major of McIlroy’s career and lowest since a 63 in the first round of the 2010 Open Championship.#theMasters

Rory McIlroy has had some dramatic moments at Augusta National. Nothing was quite as epic as his 18th hole and the celebration that ensued.

That’s as much fun as we golf fans have had watching all week (aside from, of course, watching Tiger Woods and his comeback.) Morikawa and McIlroy put together an epic day – combining to go 13-under on their final rounds alone. But as great players do, he manufactured an all-time great shot from the right greenside bunker. The 18th hole delivers iconic moments year after year.

Rory McIlroy and Collin Morrikawa sent the golf world into meltdown in the final round at the Masters. Watch it here.

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"That's what makes golf so cool - we're competitors out there but at the same time we're friends and we travel around with each other every week. I'm happy that we both played well." I've never heard roars like it on an 18th green, it was really cool," McIlroy said. "This tournament never ceases to amaze. "It's what you dream about, right? "They matched eagles at 13, shot-for-shot ... and now they both finish with matching threes out of the bunker at the 72nd.

Only the world No. 1 Scottie Scheffler was better this week at the Masters than 32-year-old Rory McIlroy, who put on a memorable Sunday show.

It was the best round of the week by three shots, and it was punctuated with a raucous exclamation point — an 18-yard shot out of the bunker guarding the 18th green’s right side. On the par-3 16th, he just missed a 22-footer for birdie on the high side. But there’s not much to quibble about with this round — one of the best ever on this golf course. He missed the fairway at No. 14 costing himself a chance to attack the pin placement. The foot-shooting happened Friday this week in a two-hole span, he says. He seems to start slow here and then sizzle on Sunday. His final-round scoring average here since 2013 is 68.7. McIlroy has shot seven rounds in the 60s in his last nine final rounds at Augusta. He’s shot a combined five rounds in the 60s in Days 1-3. “I’ve known that I have the game to win at this place. The 32-year-old combined six birdies with an eagle on the par-5 13th, when he nestled a 200-yard second shot to 10 feet and made the putt. Maybe he should take that more aggressive approach earlier in the week. After all, McIlroy himself knows about having a Sunday lead at this place. Indeed, it was quite heavenly — the ball in which the Irishman knocked around Augusta National for an unblemished 8-under-par final-round 64. Maybe she would have shoved aside grown men (she’s more than capable) to corral the golf ball that Rory McIlroy tossed into the crowd.

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Rory went on to birdie the Par 5, 8th, and the Par 4,10th. Sunday at the 2022 Masters will be one that he never forgets as he produced a remarkable and historic round of golf. He sweetly-struck his third from the bunker and landed it well up the sloping green, the ball then proceeded to roll back down the slope curving towards the hole before finding the cup. The second was sweetly struck and it also safely found the green before inching its way down the slope and towards the hole. It was at this point and time that you felt like something special could be in the works for Rory McIlroy on Sunday. Having begun his final round with two birdies he really started to heat up when he came to the Par 4, 7th.

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When players do what McIlroy did at the Masters, they first get interviewed in Butler Cabin, while the result of the event still hangs in the balance. This was the inverse of his debacle in 2011 when he blew a four-shot lead. So it felt important that while we all remember that 64th stroke of his afternoon, McIlroy said he was most pleased with stroke No. 42, strokes 44-45, 48-49 and 60-61. The way McIlroy talks about Augusta National, you’d think he was a 4-time champion, who could play whenever he wants, and who doesn’t need invites. McIlroy punched the air once, both arms uncontrollably extended, flipping his wedge into the sand like a home run hitter on a walk-off dinger. Rather, we’ll be thinking for many, many weeks to come about the one stroke he took from the greenside bunker on 18, and the 63 others that preceded it during a spellbinding final round.

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He hit the ball left of the hole and let the back slope take the ball down for a kick-in par. On the narrow par-4 seventh, McIlroy hit his drive in the left rough and was left chipping a 7-iron on the ground between the two greenside bunkers. Needing to keep the ball down on the ground after another leftward tee shot, he hit his second shot to the front of the green and conjured a chip shot for his third that combined knowledge and skill. “I've played a really good round of golf, and it's my best-ever finish at Augusta. It's not quite enough, but I'll certainly look back on this day with very fond memories.” “And I'm not overanalyzing it and not looking at the video too much, and it feels pretty good. The ball rolled between the two bunkers and finished on the back fringe of the green, above the hole. For example, he took dead aim at the flag at the par-4 first with a wedge and drained a 9-footer for birdie. “He played phenomenal golf today,” said Collin Morikawa, who played alongside McIlroy on Sunday. “He put himself in some pretty tough spots, got out. J.J. (Jonathan Jakovac, Morikawa’s caddie) said he walked over there on that line and really didn't even see a gap running it up.” I think I was minus-three strokes gained on the first two days, but I played really nicely over the weekend.” That's what this tournament is all about, hang around until you get to a spot where you feel comfortable to be aggressive, and that was where I was today.” “I basically did everything I wanted to this week.

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“It's a day to just hang in there and hang around. And given the fact that he hasn’t added a fifth title to his collection in almost eight years, such a policy is clearly not working. I took my tee shot a little further right on 3 in an effort to drive the green. Since then, however, he has not once seen his name at the top of a leader board at the conclusion of any round at any major. But if it does work out, I could have a day like this and have some fun.” In truth, this week was more of what has become an unadventurous same for McIlroy. Following a pattern that has become all too familiar, he appeared as if from almost nowhere to record his 24th top-10 in major championship play. Guess which of those two players is in the World Golf Hall of Fame? I took my tee shot a little further left on 2. In his first 25 major championship appearances, the now-32-year-old Belfast Boy led or co-led at the end of rounds on 17 occasions. The garment that means most to the only European golfer who has annexed three of the game’s four major championships is soon to take up residence in Scottie Scheffler’s closet, not his own. The same is true of Ireland. Four other Irishmen as well as McIlroy—Fred Daly, Padraig Harrington (twice), Darren Clarke and Shane Lowry—have Open Championship wins to their names. Harrington and McIlroy (twice) have each hoisted the formidable bulk of the Wanamaker Trophy skyward in the wake of PGA Championship victories.

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So we ended up reaching out to the GEO Foundation, which does a lot of great sustainability work in golf, to help us go in the right direction.” And I just got this massive sense of guilt coming over me just because this can’t be good (for the environment). However, McIlroy’s greatest highlight on the course was yet to come. The 32-year-old splashed out from the bunker on the right of the green and holed for a birdie. On the 13th hole, McIlroy converted an eagle putt on the par-five, putting him seventh under for the day and on the way to a course record of 63. McIlroy started 10 shots behind first-place Scheffler on the final day and after birdies on the first and third hole, the Northern Irishman’s confidence began to grow.

McIlroy didn't win the 2022 Masters, but he did provide the tournament with its most stunning shot, a magical wedge from a greenside bunker.

The fans gathered around the 18th green leaped to their feet and roared as McIlory walked triumphantly on the green pumping his fist before reaching down to get his ball out of the hole and throw it into the crowd. I went out there today, shot my best-ever score at Augusta and it’s going to be my best finish ever.” It was really cool.” When it disappeared into the cup, McIlroy tossed his club in delight, jumped, raised his arms, ran out of the bunker and hugged his caddie. It’s been a while since I’ve felt that.” But that was not his most notable Masters.