Rory McIlroy

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

That sound grew larger and larger, with McIlroy's ball edging closer and closer to the hole, so much so that it rolled in for a birdie and an exceptional round ...

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.

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"I really just wanted to post a number, and I kept thinking to myself 'why not me?'. I feel like I'm playing well, we finally had conditions where you can get after it a bit and shoot a low one. I knew I needed my best ever score to at least have a chance. "Yeah, by far," said McIlroy, asked if it was his best experience at Augusta. "I got off to a great start today and I just kept it rolling.

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His collapse on Sunday was stunning. McIlroy was searching for the grand slam had he won The Masters in 2022 – and will be searching for it in 2023. Rory McIlroy has never won The Masters – but he certainly has come close.

The Hollywood golfer's round of 64 was just one shot off the course record and his second lowest round in any major.

Take a bow @McIlroyRory." He missed a good birdie opportunity on the ninth but made amends in style on the 10th, chipping in from the back of the green to improve to four under. The 32-year-old made the ideal start to his round with a birdie on the first and then smashed a 376-yard drive on the second, only to push his approach into a bunker and fail to get up and down.

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.

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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With Scheffler reaching 11 under par at the seventh and maintaining a steadfast approach he held McIlroy comfortably at arms’ length. This was the burden Scheffler was condemned to carry on the final day. Only Tiger Woods rocks Augusta more than McIlroy on this form, witness the eruptions detonated by his chip-in birdies at seven and ten, not to mention the eagle at 13 to take him to six under par. The Australian would halve the gap with another strike against par at the second, and when Scheffler again found trouble off the tee at the third it looked for all the world his lead would disappear. It was the kind of round we thought McIlroy had left behind, a bogey-free assault on the senses as well as the golf course. Imagine being Scheffler, walking to the first tee with a three-shot lead.

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Scheffler missed a five-foot birdie opportunity at the par-five 13th but holed from a similar distance at the next for the first of back-to-back birdies, taking him five clear, with a four-putt double-bogey at the last not enough to prevent him from securing the win and further cementing his place at the top of the world rankings. A two-shot swing at the third saw Smith make bogey and Scheffler chip in from off the green, restoring his overnight advantage, with Smith dropping another shot at the par-three next when he failed to get up and down from a greenside bunker. Scheffler had to get up and down from the back of the green to scramble a par on the opening hole, as Smith followed a 15-foot birdie at the first by taking advantage of the par-five next to cut the lead to one.

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.

The World No. 1 finished with a score of -10, three shots clear of McIlroy, who produced the joint-lowest final round in Masters history.

There are few players in the world as enjoyable to watch when in this form and the most emotional moment of the day was when McIlroy’s bunker shot snaked into the cup. Another came at the next and from being in with a shot of taking the lead it was now at four. It was needed, but would be savoured by a humble champion who may have to get used to being the best in the world. Smith ended up in the same position and his ball was so close to Scheffler’s that he had to mark his ball. Scheffler came into the final round with a three-shot lead over Smith but that was quickly whittled down to just one stroke within the first two holes. It was not until after The Masters was won that Scottie Scheffler looked human after all.

Rory McIlroy vowed to keep trying to win the Masters and complete a career grand slam after a thrilling runners-up finish at Augusta National.

I went out there today, shot my best ever score at Augusta and it’s going to be my best finish ever. That was an incredible. “It’s what you dream about, right?

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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 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.

The 32-year-old holed out from a bunker on the 18th to complete a closing 64, equalling the lowest final round in tournament history.

I went out there today, shot my best ever score at Augusta and it’s going to be my best finish ever. That was an incredible. “It’s what you dream about, right?

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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 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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“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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“Given where I was a little over a year ago, to end up here and be able to play all four rounds, even a month ago, I didn’t know if I could pull this off. “I’ve dreamed of having a chance to play this tournament. “I cried like a baby this morning. “I went out there today, shot my best ever score at Augusta and it’s going to be my best finish ever. “This tournament never ceases to amaze me,” he said. I’m walking away from this tournament the happiest I have ever done.”

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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.

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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.

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That this is tough ground to walk we need only to reference Scheffler’s revelation that he cried like a baby on the morning of his final round, so overwhelmed was he by doubt and insecurity. We have heard this before from McIlroy. It is part of the burden of the role he has carved for himself as a standard bearer for golf. And I’m not overanalysing it, and not looking at the video too much. Scheffler would end the day as he started it, three clear of the field. When he holed out for his 64 to equal the Sunday record at the Masters, only Scheffler was ahead of him. “I feel like my game has been sort of quietly pretty good without the results to really show for it.

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“The only person to beat me this week is the guy that’s currently the best golfer in the world. “It was just nice to feel that buzz in a major championship again. Every now and again it’s nice to have results like this just to reaffirm that what you’re doing are the right things. This might kickstart a little bit of belief, going on and getting major win number five. “There’s no reason he can’t go and complete the grand slam. Former Ryder Cup captain Paul McGinley believes McIlroy is more than capable of claiming that elusive Masters title, adding: “We know this is a course that should suit his game.