Posted on April 14, 2025 at 05:55. / Modified April 14, 2025 at 08:25.
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The great successes bring to the champions more often relief than joy, both the pressure that suddenly evaporates was strong. For Rory McILroy, we can completely talk about a deliverance. The North Irishwoman won on Sunday in Augusta (Georgia), while the sky fire embraced the Magnolias of the National Golf Club, the Masters, completing his collection of major titles, after a decade of disillusions and an unbreakable day completed in play-off against Justin Rose.
Rory McILroy becomes the sixth player at 35 to succeed in the “Grand Chelem” of the Golf, after Gene Sarazen, Ben Hogan, Gary Player, Jack Nicklaus and Tiger Woods. As a child prodigy of the little white ball, he had already won the US Open in 2012, the PGA Championship in 2012 and 2014, the British Open in 2014. He only lacked the Masters of Augusta, the most beautiful, the most select, the most special. It seemed to be only a question of time as Rory McILroy – who then formed with the world number one of tennis, the Danish Caroline Wozniacki, a couple at the top of sport – dominated his subject.
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