Rory McIlroy beats Justin Rose in Masters playoff to win green jacket, complete Grand Slam

Rory McIlroy didn’t marque it casual for himself, but aft a rollercoaster last circular connected Sunday, helium is the victor of the greenish overgarment astatine the 89th variation of The Masters aft beating Justin Rose successful a sudden-death playoff. 

McIlroy, who has waited 11 years to triumph different major, was flooded with emotion arsenic helium has done what lone 5 golfers successful past had earlier him. His triumph astatine Augusta National Golf Club means helium has won each azygous major, which includes the PGA Championship (2012, 2014), the U.S. Open (2011) and The Open Championship (2014), giving him the vocation Grand Slam. 

Gene Sarazen, Ben Hogan, Gary Player, Jack Nicklaus and Tiger Woods are the lone players successful past to triumph each large anterior to McIlroy. 

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Rory McIlroy lines up his putt connected the no. 1 greenish during the last circular of the Masters Tournament astatine Augusta National Golf Club. (Katie Goodale-Imagn Images)

McIlroy's last circular was filled with tons of play from commencement to finish, and it reached its highest constituent erstwhile helium stepped into the putt connected his 72nd spread of the tournament. He needed par to decorativeness astatine 12-under to bushed Rose, who drained a heavy birdie putt connected the aforesaid greenish a fewer minutes earlier to finished 11-under for the tournament. 

The putt was conscionable left, and the patrons couldn't judge it arsenic a playoff was needed to spot who would get fitted for a greenish overgarment successful Butler Cabin. 

Rose was hitting astatine the tourney signifier installation awaiting the imaginable of the archetypal Masters abrupt decease playoff since 2017, which helium was a portion of. He ended up losing to Sergio Garcia to miss retired connected the greenish jacket. 

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He rapidly jumped into a play cart aft learning McIlroy had missed the par putt and went to the 18th tee container to conscionable the Northern Irishman, who had to bash it each implicit again. 

Rose and McIlroy some recovered the fairway with their tee shots, with the erstwhile going archetypal with his approach. And helium enactment tremendous unit connected McIlroy, arsenic Rose bounced the shot adjacent the spread and got a spot unlucky arsenic it trickled away. 

McIlroy, who deed his attack into the close greenside bunker, got the babe gully helium wanted this time, and helium utilized the slope to rotation the shot backmost to 2 feet. 

Rose inactive had a large look astatine birdie, and took his clip speechmaking the putt. He gave it a bully ride, but it broke excessively acold right, and helium cleaned up for par. 

Thus, McIlroy had different accidental to yet unafraid what he's been searching for since helium began his illustrious play career. McIlroy, who ne'er takes a signifier putt, walked up to his ball, looked astatine the spread and enactment the cleanable changeable connected it this time. 

The patrons went into a frenzy arsenic McIlroy dropped to his knees and started crying, arsenic the imagination and extremity yet turned into reality. He broke down adjacent much gathering with his wife, Erica Stoll, and their daughter, Poppy, on with galore others successful his beingness arsenic helium walked to Butler Cabin for his greenish jacket. 

Rory McIlroy celebrates aft winning a playoff connected the 18th greenish during the last circular of the Masters Tournament astatine Augusta National Golf Club.  (Katie Goodale-Imagn Images)

Rose finished 2nd aft carding a 66 last round, portion Patrick Reed (9-under), Scottie Scheffler (8-under), and Bryson DeChambeau and Sungjae Im (7-under each) rounded retired the apical 5 connected the Masters leaderboard.

Drama was expected successful this last circular connected Sunday, but possibly nary 1 expected this to beryllium 1 of the astir up-and-down finishes successful the past of this large tournament. 

It happened close distant connected the archetypal spread erstwhile McIlroy double-bogeyed the opening spread aft a three-putt. His tee changeable needed conscionable 1 much gait to sail implicit the close fairway bunker, but it landed successful the soil instead, forcing a layup. Then, his attack changeable was excessively deep, causing a agelong par putt that wouldn’t go. 

But adjacent much crushing for the antheral who led astatine 12-under to statesman the circular was missing his bogey putt, causing a two-stroke swing. DeChambeau would birdie aft sending his tee changeable a spot excessively acold left. So, successful a flash, DeChambeau and McIlory were tied astatine 10-under heading to the scoreable par-5 2nd hole.

Once again, McIlroy’s tee changeable couldn’t wide the close fairway bunker, portion DeChambeau had an fantabulous look astatine an attack to the 2nd green. McIlroy laid up and had a mediocre approach, which made it a hard birdie look. He would descend his par putt to permission his people astatine 10-under, but DeChambeau took the sole pb astatine 11-under aft hitting his birdie putt. 

The people swing, though, wasn’t adjacent adjacent to over. 

The 3rd spread presented a speedy turnaround for McIlroy, who watched a birdie putt spell near to close and bent connected to get a changeable back, portion DeChambeau’s par prevention didn’t person the close line. He had to settee with a bogey and McIlroy erstwhile again owned the lead. 

Then, the 4th hole, a 232-yard par-3, saw McIlroy dialed successful with his robust changeable that landed wrong 10 feet of the spread for a coagulated birdie look. DeChambeau’s drew excessively overmuch and helium couldn’t get his agelong birdie putt adjacent for different par save. He dropped different bogey, portion McIlroy landed back-to-back birdies to get backmost to 12-under – owning a three-stroke pb aft 4 holes. 

Bryson DeChambeau plays from the fairway connected the eighth greenish during the last circular of the Masters Tournament astatine Augusta National Golf Club.  (Peter Casey-Imagn Images)

Overall, determination were 3 two-shot swings successful the archetypal 4 holes. 

McIlroy stayed connected an adjacent keel aft getting backmost to 12-under, shooting par successful his adjacent 4 holes earlier taking a four-stroke pb implicit DeChambeau, Ludvig Åberg and Rose, who birdied 4 times during a six-hole agelong to get backmost into the moving astatine 9-under, aft birdying the ninth hole. 

The 2nd 9 started disconnected cleanable for McIlroy, who poured successful different birdie putt to spell to 14-under. It didn’t look similar helium would’ve had a birdie accidental aft dropping his nine instantly aft interaction connected his 2nd from the fairway, but it drew close backmost into the greenish the mode helium wanted. 

Meanwhile, DeChambeau’s 2nd 9 was a catastrophe arsenic the infamous "Amen Corner," oregon Holes 11, 12 and 13, ate him up. It started with a immense mistake hitting his attack connected No. 11 into the h2o adjacent to the green. 

He’d autumn to 7-under with a double-bogey aft trying to salvage the hole, and things got worse erstwhile helium couldn’t spread his par putt connected the abbreviated 12th, which ever proves to beryllium an contented for players. DeChambeau started the time astatine 10-under, but recovered himself 6-under, 7 shots disconnected McIlroy’s pb astatine the time, heading into the 13th hole. 

Justin Rose reacts aft teeing disconnected connected no. 12 during the last circular of the Masters Tournament astatine Augusta National Golf Club.  (Katie Goodale-Imagn Images)

The 13th spread saw McIlroy playing safe, arsenic helium should’ve with the pb helium had astatine the time. But his 3rd shot, a abbreviated transportation that should’ve been routine, proved disastrous erstwhile helium deed it excessively acold close and it entered the water. McIlroy wasn’t capable to deed his bogey putt aft re-doing the pitch, and helium fell to 11-under. 

On the 16th green, Rose holed his tremendous tee changeable to get to 11-under himself, and the movie that was playing retired astatine Augusta National reached highest tension. 

McIlroy mislaid his pb aft bogeying the 14th to autumn to 10-under, arsenic Rose had the outright pb erstwhile helium stepped into his par putt connected the 17th hole. But helium tugged it left, leaving a three-way necktie astatine 10-under betwixt McIlroy, Rose, and Åberg.

The climax of this movie, though, was provided by McIlroy’s 7 robust from 207 yards out, needing a right-to-left bender to transportation the pond successful beforehand of the 15th green. He executed the changeable with precision, arsenic the patrons astir roared with the shot making its mode person to the greenish for an eagle putt. 

McIlroy wouldn’t marque it aft hitting it left, but helium made birdie to instrumentality the pb erstwhile more. But similar immoderate movie, the climax lone leads to the ending, and it was an astonishing finish.

On the 18th green, Rose had 1 past birdie successful him, sinking a heavy putt to beryllium tied for the co-lead with McIlroy astatine 11-under. He would caput into the clubhouse and ticker with bated enactment to spot however the golfers down him would finish. He finished with a final-round 66.

McIlroy had a large look connected No. 16 aft a large tee shot, but it ne'er broke back, and helium stayed tied with Rose astatine 11-under. Thus, 2 much holes near for McIlroy, who needed a birdie oregon amended to triumph it. 

Rory McIlroy falls to his knees successful solemnisation aft winning a playoff connected the no. 18 greenish during the last circular of the Masters Tournament astatine Augusta National Golf Club. (Kyle Terada-Imagn Images)

So, conscionable similar helium did connected No. 15, McIlroy started walking toward his attack connected No. 17, asking his changeable with an 8 robust to, "Go, go, go!" That’s precisely what the shot did, arsenic it acceptable up yet different accidental for McIlroy to get his pb back. 

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McIlroy had to person tons of intelligence fortitude each time agelong aft missing his par putt the archetypal clip helium stepped ft connected the 18th green, and helium trusted himself to play the spread amended during the playoff. 

All those missed shots, each those putts that came truthful close, everything that has happened the past decennary that has led McIlroy to question if he'd ever triumph different major, oregon amended yet, implicit the Grand Slam wasn't successful his caput erstwhile helium walked into that last putt successful the playoff. 

It's ever astir the adjacent shot, and this time, McIlroy didn't miss. History followed. 

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