Rory Mcilroy Vs. Bryson Dechambeau: The Masters Showdown Golf cannot wait

Augusta, Ga. – It is not clear what someone has done to deserve it.

Of all the finals, this? This colossal collision of plots and personality, of wild opposites and strange results? The gods have already smiled on these parts of central Georgia this week, offering the type of time that not even the national members of Augusta could buy, but now a Sunday arrives that can be described only too beautiful to be true.

A last match of Rory Mcilroy and Bryson Dechambeau will be held at 14:30 et and will probably decide the Masters of 2025. Mcilroy, at 12 below, leads from two shots. Dechambeau, at 10 below, is right there.

Rest? It is difficult to particularly care. Ludvig åberg is there somewhere. So it’s Scottie Scheffler.

But it is Mcilroy and Dechambeau, a matchup directly from the folkloric, as if Dan Jenkins moved dissolved by the dust to give us another. Mcilroy was apparently out of this tournament after the back cover of Thursday that included two double trolleys. Since then he has published 66s back-to-back and has opened birdie, Eagle, birdies to cancel a two-round deficit and take control of the ranking on Saturday. He hit a blow to n. 15 which was directly from the palette of a painter. And Dechambeau? Coming out of 69-68-69, he has again shown that his game can adapt to Augusta and is riding his wave of momentum. In about 90 minutes on Saturday, it went from a stroke of Mcilroy to four shots back and riding three birds in the last four holes to land a place in Sunday’s last match. His 48 -foot bird Putt triggered such a strong charge that the poor Corey Conners, trying to speak with journalists a few hundred meters away, had to stop and wait.

Mcilroy left the 18th green of Augusta on Saturday, walking through a tunnel of fans telling him that this is his year. Dechambeau crossed the same catwalk only 20 minutes later, with the fans who reached so hard for the five years that the ropeline barely had.

Who will have the advantage of the crowd on Sunday? Hard call. Education Augusta National Loves Rory Mcilroy. Those who spend $ 5,000 in the goods building on an unrepeatable journey to Augusta National? This is the country of Bryson Dechambeau. Let’s imagine that half will pull the cheering for Rory, half will pull for Bryson and everyone hopes in chaos.

And they will probably understand it. This will be a day without signs. Only noise explosions.

Bryson Dechambeau is not afraid of playing with customers. (Harry How / Getty Images)

The preface is obvious.

Exactly 301 days ago, Mcilroy, with the hat pushed to the top of the forehead and his hands on his hips, looked at a television mounted on the wall of a curtain to be scored usa. There was Dechambeau, on the screen but bigger than life. He rolled in a 3 -foot and 11 -inch putt, leaned back and emitted a primordial roar. Mcilroy, somehow reaching new levels of despair, turned and walked towards the door. He exploded the United States and Dechambeau won it.

That was supposed to be the day Mcilroy finally shaken the plot that followed him as the longest possible shade. Instead, he left Pinehurst still looking for his first big championship victory since 2014 and an invisibility cloak. In the meantime, Dechambeau has celebrated its second number of approval US Open and shouting.

Neither won the Masters. The difference is that Dechambeau, 31 years old, is playing at his eighth and, leaving the T6 finish last year, seeming more and more destined to win here. Mcilroy, 35, is on his 17th trip and pressed the pressure of this is the last stage of his aspiring Grand Slam. He should have won in 2011 but no. That last round 80 was 14 years ago but never went away.

Something will have to give between two men so apparently unjustified.

Mcilroy said he plans to continue avoiding his phone or word from the outside world until the sun sets on Sunday.

Dechambeau said it will be absolutely on his phone: “I have no problems with that.”

Mcilroy said he is ready for Sunday “Rowdy” scene but won’t commit much with noise. “I just have to settle for me,” he explained, “and I really try to keep me in my little bubble and keep my head down.”

Dechambeau does not bubble. Saturday, after a bird, set a section of customers for, as he said later, deliver “a declaration, like” do you know what? I’m still here. “” He said there is a line to walk when it comes to emotion, and there will be. “I’m just reacting and being what I am,” he told journalists. “Guys you can say what you want, but I’m just a little different.”

Mcilroy left Augusta National on Saturday to spend a quiet evening with his family.

Dechambeau returned to the driver’s field and beat the balls when a night sky started, framing an orange moon above.

Augusta National saw Rory Mcilroy come to the Masters 17 times and not yet win. (Michael Reaves / Getty Images)

For all differences, the recipe was similar for this week: Bomba Drives, take advantage of the par-5s and put the Bejesus out of the ball. As it is:

• Rory hit 27 of 42 fairway. Bryson: 33 of 42.

• Rory hit 37 of 54 vegetables in regulation. Bryson: 32 of 54.

• Rory is placed n. 2 in putting for the week, with an average of 1.52 per hole. Bryson? It is number 1 to 1.41.

Both played the par-5s to 8 below. The convention says that Sunday could descend to those who do what on par -3 and -4.

Both men will talk to us a lot about themselves on Sunday.

Dechambeau is often stopped, to date, a comic construct of its type of character. But it has grown more and more in recent years to become someone and something different from anything else in golf. A Victory of Masters – his major third, an opportunity to play YouTube Golf in the green jacket and lightning for Golf Liv – he would feel epochal.

And mcilroy? How do you describe the method of someone who acts through all the imaginable disappointments? The man has been the greatest golf player of the last 10 years and, at the same time, is more underestimated. “The Miscventure of Mcilroy” has arrived with a degree of morbid humor that feels excessively hard, also for Irish standards. But finally a victory of Masters? Epochal, to say nothing else.

There is not much to say.

(Main photos: Michael Reeves, Harry How / Getty Images)