Rory McIlroy's sports psychologist explains Bryson DeChambeau silent treatment during Masters final round

When it's successful betwixt the lines — oregon with golf, wrong the ropes — it's each concern for Rory McIlroy.

That memo seemingly did not get to Bryson DeChambeau up of the last circular of the Masters. 

The 2 were paired unneurotic again successful a major, conscionable similar past year's U.S. Open, which DeChambeau snatched from McIlroy successful the precocious holes. McIlroy adjacent joked implicit the wintertime that helium wanted to "get back" astatine DeChambeau for "what helium did to me" astatine Pinehurst. 

DeChambeau cracked, "To beryllium fair, you benignant of did it to yourself."

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Rory McIlroy of Northern Ireland and Bryson DeChambeau of the United States putt connected the No. 11 greenish during the last circular of the Masters astatine Augusta National Golf Club Sunday, April 13, 2025. (Ken Griffey Jr./Augusta National/Getty Images)

It was affable competitory banter betwixt the Ryder Cup and PGA-LIV rivals, but thing was affable connected Sunday. 

DeChambeau said McIlroy "didn't speech to maine once" during the last round.

That was each portion of the plan.

"That didn't person thing to bash with Bryson," McIlroy's sports psychologist, Bob Rotella, told the BBC, via ESPN. "That was conscionable the crippled program each week, and we wanted to get mislaid successful it. We didn't privation to wage attraction to what anyone other was scoring, oregon shooting, oregon swinging oregon however acold they were hitting it. We conscionable wanted Rory to play his game.

Bryson DeChambeau of the United States and Rory McIlroy of Northern Ireland respond connected the 5th greenish during the last circular of the 2025 Masters astatine Augusta National Golf Club April 13, 2025, successful Augusta, Ga.  (Richard Heathcote/Getty Images)

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"The constituent is, if you judge you're going to win, conscionable play your crippled and presume that if you bash that anyplace adjacent the mode you're susceptible of, past you volition extremity up No. 1."

Despite plentifulness of hiccups, it worked. McIlroy yet won his archetypal Masters and completed the vocation expansive slam connected his 11th attempt.

DeChambeau said helium enjoyed the excitement of the time but said his spouse appeared zoned in. 

"He was conscionable similar ‘eh.’ Just being focused, I guess. That’s not me, though," DeChambeau said.

Rory McIlroy holds the Masters title trophy during the last circular of the Masters astatine Augusta National Golf Club. (Kyle Terada/Imagn Images)

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McIlroy became the archetypal subordinate to triumph a Masters contempt double-bogeying 4 times successful the tournament. To combat that, helium acceptable a tourney grounds with 30 "3s" connected the scorecard.

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