A boy from Holywood who conjured Golf for the gods
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The ball was just 1.2 meters from the flag on the 18th hole of the Augusta National Golf Club, Rory mcilroy However, he had the task of getting her into the hole and winning the win of the last of the four largest golf tournaments in the world, missing in the renowned laurel collection. In his already brilliant career, the 35-year-old Northern Irishman missed only a triumph on Masters-a holy golf grail, where a record prize pool of € 18.5 million was distributed this year.
But far from being another simple blow from close range. It was boiling in Rory, with frustrations, doubts, the hardships of the last decade, since in 2014 he last won a large tournament, the so -called major; That was at the PGA Championship. That year, he already had a win at the three largest (US Open and British Open), and at the Masters in Augusta, he has been corrupted by a heart -rising experience in recent years when he was already at the door of paradise in 2011, but broke on the last day of the competition.
This time in playing on an extra hole with an Englishman Justin Roswith which they were aligned after the number of strokes after four days of the tournament on 72 holes, threw away the emotional burden, put the ball out of the field of view and became a living legend. « I would say that this was about 14 years, since 2011, when I felt that I could have achieved something here, » Mcilroy said after entering the Golf Heaven.