It’s almost a year since Rory McIlroy completed the career Grand Slam with his victory at the Masters.
That would have been a hugely significant moment on its own, but McIlroy’s fifth Major title at Augusta National came after a gap of 11 years and a series of heartbreaks before finally winning the Green Jacket.
The final leaderboard of the 2025 edition offers the cold, hard fact that McIlroy got over the line via a first-hole playoff victory over Justin Rose.
However, anyone who witnessed the events unfold during a frenetic Sunday a year ago will know that it only reveals a fraction of the full story.
Thankfully, for anyone who either missed the action or wishes to relive it, The Masters has released an interview with McIlroy, where he provides a superb hole-by-hole breakdown of how the day played out from his perspective.
McIlroy begins with a little context, including a solid opening round tarnished by two double bogeys late on, which appeared to leave his chances of winning the Green Jacket hanging in the balance even at that early stage.
However, McIlroy hit back and, even admitting that he “rode his luck” on the back nine of the second round, he was firmly back in contention at the halfway stage.
Helped by a dream start on Saturday, by the end of the third round, McIlroy topped the leaderboard by two over his great rival, Bryson DeChambeau.
Perhaps haunted by near misses of the past, including a famous capitulation in the final round of the 2011 Masters, McIlroy admits in the video that, when he arrived at Augusta National on Sunday “the nerves started to hit me.”
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Anyone who has followed McIlroy’s career will know that he rarely does things the easy way, and, sure enough, he proceeds to take viewers on a journey of what was surely the most nerve-shredding round of his career, beginning with his very first shot, when he found a bunker rather than the fairway.
McIlroy went on to make a double, wiping out his overnight lead, but he reveals that, rather than leave him deflated, it galvanised him by putting him “in…
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