Rory McIlroy’s Master Wins Unexpected Beneficiaries

Pennsylvania District – Elite professional golfers never doubt their abilities. As Justin Thomas said, the best people in the world tend to downplay their achievements lest they let their irrational confidence break.

But even for future World Golf Hall of Fame members, some feats that are a legendary figure known to be known, and it is difficult to achieve when these great men carved their names in history long before they were born. Their huge weight and historicity reminded themselves of their own image, and it was almost impossible for the mountain to attract people’s attention.

These are Jack, the players, Hogan, and of course the Tigers’ achievements.

This generation of stars grew up in the woods. His historic 2000 season changed the trajectory of professional golf. Asked to recall their favorite matches, they almost all involved in the woods.

Thomas, Xander Schauffele, Scottie Scheffler and others regard the woods as friends and contemporary people. But they also respect him and his great achievements in the game. When players talk about the feats of the Forest (82 wins, 15 Grand Slams, Tiger Grand Slams), they say to match those feats, but do it in a desire way, just like kids who know their limitations but still hope to find a kind of crushing ceiling.

Professional Grand Slams once fell into this category. When Tiger Woods was the only person to do something in 60 years, the potential to realize it seems to be low. Just look at the name No Implemented: Arnie, Phil, Hagen, Nelson, Snead, Watson, Trevino, Els.

Irrational confidence is a trademark characteristic of professional athletes, but even so, it has its limitations. Apart from the few people chosen, some dreams want to stay that way.

But Rory McIlroy’s exciting master win (Masters Win), which made him the sixth golfer in history to win a professional grand slam, which could have put the feat in a new role.

“I think how hard you worked,” Xander Schauffele said Wednesday before the Truist Championship at Philadelphia Cricket Club. “It’s been 11 years,” he said. [Jordan Spieth] It was the next closest person, then everyone else, and then cut for three years. First, it would be great to put yourself in the right position. I’m far away. Closer than some, but I still feel very far away. I still need to win another major-I should say Correct Before talking about it, professional. This is very motivating. This is what I always wanted to do. ”

“Far away”, but feasible.

McIlroy conquered his own demons and “beat his own mind” no more than he beat Justin Rose in the playoffs and beat Justin Rose’s professional grand slam in Augusta National’s 18th Green.

But watching a peer makes something that you have read only or vaguely remembered to see on TV makes it more real. It’s no longer what Tiger and Jack did a few years ago, but what you just witnessed, if your game is sharp enough at the right moment, you now feel like you can reach out and grab it.

“Obviously, Rory won the Grand Slam event was huge,” Justin Thomas said. “It was inspiring for me. Obviously, it’s not that I didn’t realize I wanted to win the Grand Slam before that, but it’s just that it’s more motivated.”

When more people walk on the moon or go deep into the challenger, feel like they are a realistic goal than what you pursue. But McIlroy’s peers look It’s possible. The arc of golf life is long and even the biggest dream – a rare dream in the game pantheon – can all become a reality. A grand vision is not the ghost you chase.

For Jordan Spieth, who will be finishing his ninth match in the professional Grand Slam at the PGA Championship next week at Quail Hollow Club, McIlroy’s victory and his journey to Destination communicate with his Dreamer Onder Onder – the Destainme – sometimes he sometimes needs time, perseverance and faith.

“He didn’t just finish it,” Spieth told CBS’s Amanda Balionis after CJ Cup Byron Nelson’s final round. “But the time it takes to finish it. It’s obviously a very challenging week for him. Winning a master’s week is harder than anyone else. To be his recent major and then go do it and then go do it, I mean, it’s very inspiring.”

McIlroy knew Spieth’s plight very well. The gravity of achievement is impossible to ignore. It’s there every year when you step on the tee.

“Although you try to get yourself in the right mindset to try to win the golf tournament and then let everything else happen,” McIlroy said Wednesday. “It’s conscious or subconscious that you feel. I said that to people — the worst thing I felt on Augusta Sunday was probably when I hit the birdie putt on 10 because I thought, I thought, ‘Oh, I can’t really mess it up.’ There’s pressure.

“You know you’re not only going to win another game, but you’re trying to be a part of history and take it with some importance. I certainly feel Augusta over the years. I’m sure Jordan feels every PGA has a chance to do the same.”

McIlroy’s achievements change the likelihood that his peers think. But that may also have unlocked McIlroy, who will arrive in professional for the first time in 11 years without facing his drought.

“It might be a little different,” McIlroy said when he headed to Quail Hollow next week after winning the Masters. “In the past few years, when I’ve been to the Big Championship, I probably won’t have the advantage that I used to. I’m probably better with my family, I’ll be more relaxed. I think overall it’s going to be a good thing.”

The weight that pressed him was no longer. For McIlroy, the rest is golf.

For those who are motivated and inspired by the viewing of his summit, hoping to follow in his historical footsteps, their work has just begun.