Rory McIlroy admitted in his post-final round interview with reporters that dropping to his knees after watching his playoff birdie putt sink to win the 89th Masters tournament was pure relief.Â
“That was all relief, there wasn’t much joy in that reaction,” he said when one reporter asked what emotions he was feeling when he defeated Justin Rose in the first Masters playoff since 2017. “It was all relief. Then, the joy came pretty soon after that. I’ve been coming here 17 years, and it was a good decade-plus of emotion that came out of me there.”
McIlroy waited 11 years to not only break his major-win drought, but, more importantly, etch his name alongside the five golf greats who collected the career Grand Slam with every major victory on their resume.Â
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