Rory McIlroy

Rory McIlroy came in second at the golf US Masters 2022 after phenomenal bunker shot on 18th hole ... The Masters Golf Tournament 2022 concluded with Scottie ...

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.

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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.

Rory McIlroy has been dejected enough times when exiting on to Washington Road via Magnolia Lane that he is entitled to savour a sense of harmony after ...

At the end of the day we all have to play 72 holes and the 72nd hole is just as important as the first one. “I’ll have major championships where I’ll start fast and have chances, like the US Open last year and I’ll have things like this Masters where I’ll get off to a slow start. I don’t think it just sets me up for next year at the Masters. It sets me up for the rest of the year. But at the end of the day you still have to bide your time and play your way in. But I’ve always known I have the game to win. “It is nice to get off to good starts and be up the leaderboard early because I feel the earlier you get up there, almost the easier it is to stay there in some ways. He has no competitive experience at Southern Hills, which stages the US PGA Championship next month, but is typically fond of the course setup in that major. The Open Championship at St Andrews, a venue he adores, is on the horizon. “Every now and again it’s nice to have results like this just to reaffirm that what you’re doing are the right things. “I have always admired Rory’s game, it is completely different to mine. That Scheffler four-putted his final hole played a part in that scenario but we had already been served a reminder of the fervour with which people want McIlroy to regain his major-winning touch. Augusta National offered evidence of just how spellbindingly good McIlroy in full flow is to watch.

Rory McIlroy finished solo second at the Masters Tournament on Sunday, falling just short of a Green Jacket in his eighth attempt to complete the career ...

“We’re competitors out there, but at the same time we’re friends, and we travel around with each other every week. “I just think all the memories that are building up … I think I’ve had some really good Sundays here from a little further back, and it is about trying to channel whatever attitude that is,” McIlroy said. The reason?

So what is a Rory fan to think?? Was this inspiring? Was it a sign of things to come, the very beginning of Rory's resurgence, culminating with a 2014-like ...

This is a golf question, but it's also probably a question about what kind of person you are, or want to be, and to what extent your optimism has been obliterated in golf and life. When he comes, we'll shoot out both arms like little zaps of lightning, embracing the weird new move he taught us in that Georgia bunker. That was the start of three brilliant years, and you can't put a neat pin in the Moment When Everything Changed. In 2014, he was a killer in the majors, and a year later, he was not, and he hasn't been since. It didn't—even the leader four-putting on 18 couldn't get him within a country mile of the green jacket. On the side of inspiration/hope/joy, you have the spine-tingling emotions of Sunday. You have the reality of a second-place finish. Notice, will you, that when it kinda/sorta started to seem real right around the 13th hole, he didn't make another birdie on some very gettable holes. The one great horrific choke of his career actually came before his first major, at Augusta, when he shot a Sunday 80 to lose a four-shot lead. Of $*%&*% course Rory shot a 64 in Augusta and made it seem like it almost mattered. His brain is not broken, his physical gifts are extant, and a return to glory should just be a neurochemical or karmic twist away. Does it speak to someone who can be utterly spectacular in a major tournament, right at the exact moment when he can't really win anymore? Try to be a smug-slash-self-pitying neutral observer in the face of such awesome feats: Tony Jacklin, one of Europe's many historical near-analogues for Rory, won the Open Championship in '69 and the U.S. Open in '70, then lost the '72 Open in truly disgusting, heartbreaking fashion when Lee Trevino chipped in on the 17th hole from a losing position.

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The second is that the major championships need to implement podiums like F1. It felt monumental that McIlroy made his Sunday afternoon run and shot the round of the week, and all he has to show for it is a "2" on his Wikipedia page. His appearance there will be must-see, and I low-key hope he gives his body -- which looked worse than I thought it would as he sported a full-on limp by Sunday -- a breather to prep for the last major of the year. Part of that was a wind into players' faces over the first few days, so I'm willing to reserve judgement until next year. That dance with freedom and wisdom and when to apply the two at a Rubik's cube like Augusta National is difficult. Like Scheffler, his ability to score is off the charts, but unlike Scheffler, he doesn't gain as many strokes off the tee. It's a reminder that the best short game among the best ball-strikers, especially for an extended period, can stack a lot of wins in a short amount of time. I don't know the answer to that question, and he might not either, though it will be interesting to discuss for the next 12 months. There is both good and bad to that realization, and McIlroy answered his own question on Tuesday before this tournament started when he said that Augusta National was a place that you need to play conservatively to give yourself a chance. However, there was a raw freedom he played with on Sunday that hopefully encourages more of the same in the future. One horrific memory and one all-time moment to take away from Augusta National for the McIlroy biography, but that it could also be his last meaningful moment at that tournament. Nobody cooks like Rory does, and when you marry that with his aspirational self-awareness and the fact that he's become the voice of the sport in so many ways, he will -- no matter what the scoreboard says -- remain a beacon of hope for fans searching for a thrill. His comments after the round were instructive when he called it "as happy as I've ever been on a golf course right there."

Faldo, CBS's lead analyst for the Major tournament, was calling a putt by Cam Smith on the 13th hole when he hinted that something amazing was about to ...

Faldo, 64, is a three-time Masters champion. He had caught a glimpse of McIlroy’s shot before viewers because he and Jim Nantz were perched by the 18th green. Nick Faldo telegraphed a remarkable shot by Rory McIlroy at The Masters before viewers knew what was going on.

After starting Sunday 10 shots off the lead, Rory McIlroy matched the lowest score ever for a final round at the Masters with an 8-under 64 to secure his ...

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.

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.

McIlroy finishes with 'one of the greatest shots in Masters history' to cap stunning $2m charge.

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.