Rory Mcilroy ensures a career Grand Slam with the dramatic Masters Playoff winning on Justin Rose | The masters

Rory Mcilroy, Masters champion. Four words that believe in what this extraordinary northern Irish Irishman reached in an afternoon as a spine in Augusta National. They also ignore the tortured Mcilroy process has endured to achieve this life goal.

Did you win the 85th Masters in the hardest way? Too fair he did it. From an apparently untouchable position, Mcilroy was dragged again in a waste that was so desperate to avoid. Emerged from it on the first extra hole, where the unlikely opponent of Justin Rose It was pushed separately. Rory Mcilroy, Masters champion.

It is not surprising that the scenes moved as Mcilroy hit the Masters gate. Mcilroy has reduced so many others to tears, let alone himself. In the end, they were of unbridled joy. He almost felt that the heart was worth it. What a ride. What a stunning, exhausting tour. From 5 feet on the last hole of the regulatory game, Mcilroy approved the possibility of claiming the masters. He would soon embrace his friend and Caddy Harry Diamond in a scene of Euphoria. This was a success based on pure courage. Rory, now you are immortal.

“I started asking me if it would ever have been my moment,” Mcilroy admitted to the Butler cabin. He was not the only one.

Mcilroy joins Gene Sarazen, Ben Hogan, Gary Player and Jack Nicklaus as winners of the Gold Slam career. He also has Tiger Woods, his childhood idol, for the company in that special group. We have known the genius of Mcilroy since he launched golf balls in a washing machine on national television in 1999. He had long had a madman from the family home on the outskirts of Belfast with the dream of winning the masters. Someone did not know that his career would be so historical, so dramatic, so compulsive.

Mcilroy did not run out exactly in the pantheon of legends. Augusta National pulled on every dark corner of her psyche, from a point where Mcilroy seemed to have enjoyed a procession. Rose and Ludvig åberg had late hope. Rose’s Rampaging 66 meant second to 11 below. Mcilroy 73 linked it. Patrick Reed took the third.

More than a decade had passed since Mcilroy won the last of his Major quartet. Near Misses had come and left, nobody painful as Us Open last year. It seemed appropriate that Mcilroy had Bryson Dechambeau, the man who made him a pinch in Pinehurst, for company here. Dechambeau turned upside down. He spent on Saturday evening watching James Bond’s movies and Sunday afternoon with one: Bogeys Galore.

There were moments that implied that golf gods were on the side of Mcilroy. He played a second dangerous and low shot until the 11th which clung to dear life on top of a bank that led to a danger of water. A few moments later, Dechambeau found the same pond. There have also been examples of the amazing talent of Mcilroy, like the second blow to the 7th, which danced through the trees. Those who criticize Mcilroy’s propensity to live dangerously should remember the theater when his audacity pays.

Mcilroy’s nerves were giving themselves to the extent that he made a terrible mess of the 1st, his double Bogey canceled a two -stroke advantage. Dechambeau licked her lips. A Dechambeau bird on a par with Mcilroy at the 2nd and the Californian was ahead.

Mcilroy went back with a bird to the third while Dechambeau three. Dechambeau did the same at the next with the bird of Mcilroy who earned him a three -stroke advantage. It remained like this until the 9th, in which Mcilroy collected another blow and Dechambeau lost an opportunity. Mcilroy smiled when he reached the dry land at 12, his game partner now you are back. The danger was elsewhere; Rose and åberg.

Yet with six holes to play the only person who could beat Mcilroy was Mcilroy himself. Case in question; On the 13th, where Mcilroy loosened before surprisingly chipping in the Rae stream. Cue Mcilroy’s Quarto – Yes, Quarto – Double Bogey of the week. Åberg made four to 15th by 10 below. Rose had killed the same hole. The advantage of five Mcilroy shots after 10 evaporated in a three -tie while his part equal to the 14th in some way remained above ground. How would he recover from throwing him away? How would it ever recover?

Mcilroy’s iron in the 15th, bent around the 209 iarde pines, is among the best of his life. A bird followed. Rose corresponded 11 below 16. Although he later made a triple Bogey in the end, the åberg race ended in the penultimate hole. Next, Rose converted to a closed bird – had made a bogey on 17 – to tie Mcilroy again. A bird put downhill on 16 gave Mcilroy a new hope, but he lost right.

A bird of the last two was needed to avoid a playoff. There, Rose would not be lacking in incentives; He lost in extra holes to Sergio García in 2017. Mcilroy delivered that three on the 17th, but oscillated to the last after finding a green bunker from the fairway. Tension, wild tension. Back to 18th Tee, they went.

Lost in this fray it will be that Mcilroy’s approach in the playoff hole was a thing of total beauty. This time, it was a Putt who could not lose. Rose is due to an enormous merit for his contribution to this major.

When the powder in the end is deposited, we will be left to reflect on what Mcilroy could never be fixed for the rest of his career. He reached the land promised only at his 36th year. Rory Mcilroy, Masters champion.