It has spent more than a decade since Rory Mcilroy, who won four older before he turned 26, for the last time he won one, and none of them has arrived in Augusta.
Mcilroy won the PGA 2012 and 2014 championship, the 2011 US Open and the 2014 Open Championship, with its best August Final in 2022 with its bunker hole to finish secondly.
Mcilroy’s drought was just a meter to finish last summer, but two putts were lost worth 6.5 feet in two of the last three holes in the US US Open, and Bryson Dechambeau 18 in 18 in Pinehurst gave him his second largest.
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Rory Mcilroy takes away no. 12 during a Masters tournament practice at the Augusta National Golf Club. (Kyle Terada-Imagn images)
The Irish of the North abruptly left the course and disappointed in the championship open a month later, losing the cut.
But for Mcilroy, the champion of the reigning players and the king of Pebble Beach, “they are just stories. It is noise.”
“You’re just trying to block that noise as much as possible,” Mcilroy said Tuesday. “I need to treat this tournament like all the other tournaments that I play throughout the year.
“Look, I understand the narration and noise, and there is a lot of anticipation and accumulation that enter this tournament every year, but I only have to keep my head down and concentrate on my work.”
Rory Mcilroy plays his ball in no. 11 during a round of practice of the Masters tournament in the Augusta National Golf Club. (Kyle Terada-Imagn images)
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Mcilroy has not gone much in his last two Masters tournaments, lost the cut in 2023 and ended up tied in the 22nd year.
But it is most likely to win, only behind the current champion Scottie Scheffler, understandably. In five events this year, the 35 -year -old has not finished outside the Top 20, and has another top five apart from its two victories.
However, Mcilroy knows that Legacy is the major, and is zero for his last 38.
Rory Mcilroy plays his shot from the 16th Tee during the final round of the Masters tournament. (Michael Madrid-USA Today Sports)
“I have had the opportunity to win some of the world’s largest golf tournaments, and it hasn’t happened,” said Mcilroy. “But life goes ahead. You dust off and come back again. I think that’s why I have become a little more comfortable to put everything and be something vulnerable sometimes.”
