Rory McIlroy has revealed an astonishing exchange with Bryson DeChambeau in Sunday’s final round at The Masters last year that may explain the tension between the pair.
McIlroy finally achieved his career Grand Slam on that scintillating Sunday at Augusta National, with his focused demeanour the polar opposite of DeChambeau’s more outgoing persona.
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The incident came on the ninth green when both men noticably stood around for some time deciding who was to attempt their makeable birdie putts first.
According to McIlroy, he thought “it very clearly was my putt” but DeChambeau thought he was further away and should putt first as both balls were a similar distance from the hole.
“It was a very gamesmanship-y matchplay thing,” McIlroy explains in a clip of his Masters documentary released by Amazon Prime Video. “Really, both of us want to putt first, because if you can hole your putt before your opponent has his turn, it puts pressure on them.”
It’s then that DeChambeau came up with his solution to the problem that was unorthodox at the very least, especially for a Sunday at The Masters.
“He [DeChambeau] goes ‘so why don’t we just throw a tee up for it to see who goes first?’ I’m like ‘no’, this is the final round of the Masters, this isn’t some game on a Tuesday afternoon somewhere.
“I wasn’t going to wilt in that situation, I was going to stand firm. So I said, ‘there’s a referee over there, why don’t we get him up to come and measure?’ And he said, ‘no, no, it’s fine. You can go anyway. I don’t care’.”
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This moment between Rory McIlroy and Bryson DeChambeau in the final round of the 2025 Masters.Rory McIlroy: The Masters Wait premieres March 30 on Prime Video. pic.twitter.com/IX5ECnajo2March 26, 2026
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