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[crowd cheering]
[crowds chanting] Rory! Rory! Rory!
[producer] So, your dad shared with me this drawing you did when you were a kid.
A school assignment about what you want to be when you grow up.
-Yeah. -[producer] Do you remember that?
I-I think I remember the...
the picture.
[producer] The short story is, "I'm gonna win all four majors--"
All the majors and be the best player in the world.
[producer] And "I'm gonna get paid."
Okay, there was that, too, um...
[host] Will you please welcome the world under-ten golf champion,
-Rory McIlroy. -[audience cheers, applauds]
[host] I know you practiced in the house. How'd you do it?
Yes, um, I chipped air balls into my mum's washing machine.
[audience laughs]
I didn't believe it, so, we've recreated that for you tonight.
Let's bring young Rory over this way. Come on, Rory.
-[audience applauds] -[host] Now.
[audience] Aw.
Do champions have something?
I mean, what's the common denominator?
Is it the will to win?
[Rory] I think it's belief.
[audience] Aw.
[host] Oh, look. Go ahead, go on.
Actually, it's not belief, it's knowing.
You know, knowing that you're gonna win.
[audience cheers, applauds]
If the Americans have Tiger Woods, we have young Rory,
and believe you me, this boy can hit the ball, I watched him.
Good luck. Good luck.
[Rory] You have to be obsessed, to thrive under pressure.
Winning major championships, it's... it's an addiction.
It's an addiction that you want to have, and you want to keep.
-I want to win more majors, -[audience cheers, applauds]
and be the number one player in the world for a long time.
[sportscaster] Rory Mcllory is now just one victory away
from completing golf's Grand Slam.
All that's missing for him now is the elusive Masters green jacket.
[sportscaster 2] With a victory at the Masters,
Rory will become just the sixth man ever to win the career Grand Slam.
It's huge, you know, I've got the rest of my career
to try and master Augusta and get that one.
[crowd gasps]
[commentator] Disappointing not to complete the career Grand Slam here...
[commentator 2] I'm sure it'll happen someday.
[commentator 3] Still chasing that elusive title at the championship.
[commentator 4] Time is slipping away for Rory to be great.
[commentator 5] Everybody in the world knows
that Rory hasn't won a major since 2014.
[commentator 6] Just continues to get bigger and bigger.
He's had 16 opportunities now.
[interviewer 2] We keep having to ask, how you deal with disappointment?
Do you learn things, this and that?
I'm wondering if it's exhausting to have to answer those kind of things.
[Rory] It is, but...
at the same time, you know, when I do finally win this next major,
it's gonna be really, really sweet, so...
um...
you know, I would go through...
a hundred Sundays like this
to get my hands on another major championship.
[birdsong]
[gentle guitar music]
[commentator] Hello, friends, welcome to this tradition, unlike any other,
The Masters.
It's always an emotional trip around this storied course
down in Augusta, Georgia.
♪I'm walkin' back to Georgia♪
♪And I hope she will take me back♪
♪Nothing in my pockets And all I own is upon my back♪
♪Mmm-mm-mm mh-hm-hm-hm♪
♪Mmm mh-hm-hm-hm-hm-hm♪
[music trails off]
[commentator] Welcome to Augusta,
on what could be one of the greatest afternoons of sport
that you will ever witness.
[commentator 2] Rory McIlroy looking for his first victory here at the Masters.
[Rory] I don't think I'd ever went into a Masters
playing as good or feeling as good about my game
as I had this year.
And that's, you know, going into my 17th Masters.
That's an amazing feeling to have,
knowing that... okay, this is, you know, this could be the year.
-There was a lot of hype. -[crowd applauds]
[commentator] Never before has he led going into the final round
with the Grand Slam in his grasp.
[commentator 2] There's a whole lot of history that could be made here today.
[commentator 3] McIlroy, trying to become just the sixth man
to complete the career Grand Slam.
All that weight on his shoulders.
I honestly felt like the toughest thing for me
going into Sunday was going to be playing with Bryson.
[commentator] The man who we expect to stand in his way is Bryson DeChambeau
who inflicted painful defeat of Rory McIlroy
only last year at the US Open.
[cheering]
[Rory] We're very opposite in how we approach the game, and...
Yeah, there's a little bit of history there.
[reporter] You told me last night, you are so ready for this final round.
-What does being ready look like for you? -Just excited.
Excited for the opportunity,
Gonna have a lot of fun today. It's gonna be a great battle.
[crowd cheers, applauds]
[commentator] So, here he goes, the day of destiny.
His 17th attempt to win a green jacket.
It felt like two boxers walking out for a fight.
[crowd cheers, applauds]
[commentator] Look at the gladiatory arrival of Bryson DeChambeau
at the first.
[starter] Now driving, Rory McIlroy.
[commentator] Physically, he's got it. Technically, he's got it.
Where is he mentally?
That is always the conundrum with Rory, isn't it?
[Rory] I was twelve under par,
and Bryson was ten under.
I tried to just make him invisible.
You know, don't watch him hit a shot, just get lost in what you're doing.
So, I tried to really just wrap myself in my own little bubble.
I really tried to focus on the opportunity that I had.
To fulfill a lifelong dream.
[commentator] It's drifting a little to the right.
[crowd] Oh!
[commentator] It's gone into the bunker.
-[crowd applauds] -[commentator 2] An early blow.
[Rory] When you do get to the top level in golf,
the fine margins are in how you can control yourself.
[crowd applauds]
[Rory] If you're really mentally strong,
the physical motion of making a golf swing
and hitting a golf shot should be easier.
[crowd] Oh!
[commentator] Not good for Rory McIlroy,
struggling to make bogey here in the first.
[crowd] Oh!
[commentator 2] Two drop shots he taps in for the double bogey.
And Rory McIlroy's lead from the start of the day,
just a few moments in to this final round,
has been extinguished.
[commentator 2] The door is open for DeChambeau now.
[commentator 3] Bryson's up to the occasion.
[crowd applauds]
[man] Oh-ho...
[commentator] He said in the build up to the Masters this year, Rory McIlroy,
that the secret of success was a willingness to be heartbroken.
So, if you're on Rory's side listening to us this evening,
I hope you've got friends and family close.
-[commentators laugh] -Right, for support.
[all] Oh!
All right, it's okay.
[reporter] At his home club in Holywood, County Down, no one ever doubted him.
Every time he wins a big tournament,
the local bakery makes special biscuits.
[Rory] I wouldn't say my upbringing was a normal upbringing, but...
my parents and golf have been the constant in my life.
Honestly, all of my childhood memories are from here at Holywood Golf Club.
You know, my dad worked here for a good bit of my childhood.
[uplifting music]
Our life revolved around this place.
My mum or my dad would drop me off a seven thirty
or eight o'clock in the morning, and pick me up again at eight PM at night.
You know, I'd play 54 holes in a day. [chuckles]
[Rosie] Ah, summertime, ten o'clock at night,
running round the golf course looking for him.
You know, couldn't find him.
Just a determined little boy.
[Rory] I'm an only child.
I've always been very comfortable on my own.
And in golf, it is you, and your thoughts, and the golf ball.
And I've always loved that.
I used to say to Rosie, "Jesus, he's odd."
I mean, he's not knocking about with wee boys. Is he alright?
Rosie says, just let him go there, you know.
He was a happy child.
[Rosie] How you feeling Rory?
Good.
[Michael] Gerry and Rosie didn't drive him at it.
It was all Rory wanted to play.
Well, and they just supported him wholeheartedly.
I would coach Rory, and I told him a story
about an old Irish pro I'd played with called Paddy Skerritt.
He would practice his swing and better his grip.
He'd just keep doing it until he fell asleep.
Gerry told me one day, he says, "Michael, we found Rory asleep in the bed
with his hands on the club, on the grip."
[laughs]
[Rory] I was obsessed.
I loved going out to play and imagining I was playing the major championships.
And it was always against the greats of the game that I grew up watching.
[commentator] Welcome to this tradition unlike any other, the Masters.
[Rory] And then I watched Tiger win the Masters in April of '97.
[commentator] There it is! A win for the ages!
[crowd cheers, applauds]
I was like, I want to do that.
[Rosie] I think he was about eight at the time.
Gerry took him everywhere, you know, around Ireland,
playing in tournaments.
People were approaching us saying, "Oh, we run a tournament."
Do you want to come to our tournament?
[Gerry] She says, "Gerry, it's the God's truth.
You see, if we don't make an effort,
we're never gonna know."
She says, "I'll tell you what we'll do."
She says, "I'll go on night shift."
Right?
"And you take on extra jobs."
So, I worked all night and Gerry worked all day.
And that's how we funded it.
[reporter] At just nine years of age, Rory McIlroy from Holywood
is following in the steps of his golfing hero, Tiger Woods.
And Rory's ambitions are just as huge.
To turn a pro and to win all the majors.
[Gerry] After that interview, I said to him, "Rory,
Jesus, Rory, if you won one, wouldn't it be great?
Here he is, "I'll win them all," and walked away.
I said, "Oh, right."
[man] McIlroy has already been
one of the most successful ever Irish amateurs.
[Rory] I'm an eternal optimist.
That can be, um, naive in some ways
but I'd much rather go through life being a dreamer.
And when I kept getting that positive feedback
from my dad, or from my results in tournaments,
it kept me going.
[crowd cheers, applauds]
[Rory] And so, as I got better,
the dream got bigger.
I have complete confidence in myself, and hopefully, I can get a major early
and show some of the young guys that it is possible.
[commentator] All eyes this weekend will be focused on an Irish prodigy
who many consider to be the next Tiger Woods.
[commentator 2] This dazzling 21-year-old, Rory McIlroy has a four shot lead.
If he holds up today, it would mark in many minds the dawning of a new age
-in the sport. -[crowd applauds]
[Rory] That was my first experience at leading in a major championship
going into the last day.
And I felt like this would be my year to break out and win my first major.
[commentator] This young man is playing a game beyond his years.
Love the way he's playing. He's locked in, he's making great decisions.
A worldwide television audience, including back at his home club
in Holywood, Northern Ireland, are gathering ready to salute McIlroy
as the new Masters Champion.
[starter] Fore please, Rory McIlroy.
[crowd applauds]
[Rory] I made a bogey at the first.
And I'd noticed that, like,
a few guys ahead of me got off to really good starts.
[crowd cheers, applauds]
[commentator] Now that is exquisite touch! Oh, my goodness!
[Rory] All I was thinking about was the fact I had a four shot lead.
Now, it's just a one shot lead.
[commentator] A little extra pressure.
[Rory] I remember looking around at the scoreboards way too much.
-[crowd] Oh! -[commentator] Oh, no.
I play my best golf when I'm a little jovial and relaxed
and happy-go-lucky, or whatever it is.
But you know, I tried to be so laser focused, tunnel vision.
I'm here to do a job. I'm here to finish this thing off.
I tried to be someone that I'm not.
[commentator] Back on the tenth with McIlroy.
[commentator 2] Rory better be careful with this one.
[commentator 3] It's a really key drive. Try and make an easy four.
[crowd murmurs]
-[man] Is it out of bounds? -[commentator 2] What?
[commentator] He asked if it's out of bounds.
[commentator 2] No, there's a long way away OB.
-[commentator] That is not a good shot. -[commentator 2] No, no, it's out of sync.
[Rory] I knew that I'd clipped the very right side of the tree.
Then, you're like, okay, what do I do from here?
You're trying to look for your ball.
It's over in these cabins you didn't even know existed.
-[commentator] Have you ever seen anyone -[commentator 2] Never.
-[commentator] close to this on ten? -[commentator 2] Never.
Mike Tyson says everyone has a plan until they get punched in the mouth, right?
And I got punched in the mouth, and I did not know what to do.
[commentator] Well, that all comes as a shock.
That wasn't in his master plan.
[Rory] Everything at that point, just starts to move so quickly.
-[commentator] Be careful, left again. -[commentator 2] Oh, my goodness.
[Rory] Triple the tenth.
And then, I four-putted the twelfth.
It was just, like, short-circuited panic.
I was spiraling, like, what is going on?
And then, I felt like 13 to 18 went so slow.
You know, it was this death march to the eighteenth green.
[crowds gasps]
[commentator] Rory McIlroy joins a long and illustrious list of top sportsmen
who seem to implode when the eyes of the world are upon them.
[commentator 2] A Northern Irish golfer suffered a final round collapse
in some of the most dramatic scenes ever seen in Augusta.
[commentator 3] It's an incredibly horrific
and humiliating thing to happen.
[commentator 4] Will this hurt Rory McIlroy in the future?
I hope not.
But um, that was sad to watch.
2011...
probably scarred me more than I even realize.
You know, I've tried to unpack a lot of it, but I still don't--
I probably don't understand how much that that day did,
you know, my subconscious movements
around this place or this course. Like, I, you know, it's--
There's probably some of that still in there.
[Rory] 2025,
I obviously didn't get off to the best start.
[commentator] You try to tell the world, you're living in your own little world,
but it's hard to do.
-[spectator] Wow. -[spectator 2] Uh-oh.
[crowd] Oh!
[commentator] It is a shaky start.
[commentator] The ball stops and doesn't release.
And now, he's left himself a really, really difficult putt.
And more frustration for McIlroy in this ragged start to his round.
I'm an emotional player, I ride waves of momentum,
and then I can get it going the other way, and I can start to spiral a little bit.
[spectator] Ooh...
[crowd applauds]
[Rory] Golf is the ultimate game where it's on you.
There's no on else.
But, obviously, you're quite aware of what Bryson's doing beside you.
[commentator 3] Can Bryson DeChambeau get this for a birdie?
This for a lead.
Stiff arms, those hunched shoulders.
Lightest of touches with the putter... and it's in!
And it's taken two holes,
but Bryson DeChambeau has wrenched the lead at the Masters
from the grip of Rory McIlroy.
[crowd cheers, applauds]
[commentator 2] We think back to 2011.
Has he done it again?
[crowd applauds]
[birdsong]
[commentator 3] Everyone in the UK was watching Rory McIlroy
completely crumble in the last round of the Masters.
[commentator 2] It was a horror show for the Northern Irishman.
[crowd] Oh!
[commentator 3] He had the lead after nine holes,
and he lost by ten strokes.
[interviewer] When you lost the Masters on the back nine,
a lot of people worried about what it would do to you.
Did you worry?
You know, being four ahead going into the final day,
and having a great chance to win your first major, um,
you know, and blowing it the way I did, it wasn't a nice feeling.
I spoke to my mum and dad the next morning.
I rang home, and that's when it sort of hit me.
You know, it's...
You know, I don't remember when the last time I cried over golf was,
but, um... I just felt like I'd let them down in some way.
Of course, I was crying, he was crying.
The way he was carrying himself on the golf course just wasn't him at all.
[Gerry] You feel for your kids.
You do, you know? I know what he'd gone through.
[sportscaster 3] There's a massive question mark
hanging over the head of McIlroy.
[sportscaster 2] Will he ever win a major?
I don't think he'll ever win a major, because that collapse was spectacular.
[sportscaster 4] He melted down, and it will be very difficult,
I think, for him to rebuild from here.
I said, get them shoulders back and chin up.
And start walking properly.
[Rory] In that seven or eight weeks
from Augusta to the US Open,
I just had to go back to the drawing board
and try and look for ways to improve.
[intense music]
[commentator] I would suspect Rory would have
some real live jitters after his performance in the last major.
[commentator 2] They'll be asking him about that for a long time,
at least until he wins a major championship.
Maybe he can do it this week.
[crowd cheers]
[JP] He was real confident.
He was just free-wheeling it, you know.
You're going to achieve what you want to when you get into that frame of mind.
There has to be no doubt with what you're doing.
And I always felt that was his best attribute.
[crowd applauds]
[Rory] My goal for the week was to keep my eyeline above the crowd.
You know, shoulders back, eyes up.
If you can put it out to the world that you're ready for this,
you're physiology affects your psychology.
[commentator] I like his spirit, even though he had that disastrous round
on Sunday at the Masters, he's happy to be here.
[crowd cheers]
[commentator 2] Here he is, willing to jump back on that big stage
and get in that arena and I think it's impressive.
[commentator 2] For it all to really matter,
you gotta have the trophy in your hand, and no one knows that more than Rory.
[Gerry] I think he was leading going into the last round by four of five.
I says, "How you feeling?" He says, "A wee bit nervy, but I'm okay."
I says, "Rory...
I worked eight years in a row,
three jobs, ninety hours a week.
Never stopped.
You see, the more you put into anything,
the more you'll get out of it, son.
[commentator] Rory McIlroy has the look,
the swagger of a major champion.
[Rory] The last five holes, I could really enjoy.
I was, like, okay, I've got an eight shot lead.
I remember just, like, trying to find my dad in the crowd.
There's so many people there, and I couldn't really find him.
But walking down the 18th, and he's walking down the left side.
[crowd cheers, applauds]
Him being there and being able to watch me fulfill
a lifelong dream of winning a major championship.
[commentator] Rory McIlroy, the 2011 United States Open Champion.
-[crowd cheers, applauds] -[Gerry] After what happened,
I mean, you talk about being resilient.
I mean, that's what you call it.
-Happy Father's Day. -Thank you.
[crowd cheers, applauds]
I think that made me believe that, you know,
I could really do some special things in the game.
[commentator] Bryson DeChambeau has a one shot lead.
Rory McIlroy dropped to ten under.
[crowd applauds]
[commentator 3] Gorgeous control from McIlroy
as the ball curves around the back.
There's just a little slim finger of green and McIlroy's managed to find it.
[commentator 3] Now, McIlroy, can he hit straight back here?
If this goes in, the 35-year-old will go back into a share of the lead.
Borrowing from left to right, sends it on its way, looks good, and in!
And in for McIlroy! The first birdie in this final round.
[commentator 3] And Bryson DeChambeau is gonna drop a shot here.
Rory McIlroy is gonna be back in the lead at the Masters.
[chuckling] Ah, you've gotta love it, haven't you?
You really have got to love Augusta on a Sunday, it is absolute madness.
And this is gonna be just incredible theater
-if it carries on like this. -[crowd applauds]
[crowd gasps]
[commentator] With the honor, it would be good to hit a good shot here.
Put the pressure on.
-[crowd cheers] -[commentator] And he has.
[commentator 2] Got a chance to actually have a bigger lead
than he did at the start of the day.
[commentator 2] That's exactly right.
Knock this one in, they're three ahead.
[cheering]
[commentator] Now, the roars for Rory at the fourth.
[commentator 2] Watch this. Watch this reaction.
[crowd cheers]
-[crowd applauds] -[spectator] Yeah.
I first knew Rory in 2011, so he's won the US Open at the time.
He had this unwavering clarity on his long term goals in golf.
At age nine for him to say, you know,
I want to turn professional and win all the majors.
It's a pretty bold ambition.
[Rory] I want to be remembered as one of the best players
that ever played the game.
[crowd applauds]
But to be remembered as one of the best you need,
you need to knock off a few of those major championships.
There are four majors.
A Masters tournament,
the US Open,
the Open Championship,
and the PGA Championship.
[commentator] The mop top makes its way up the eighteenth.
This is for the all time margin of victory in PGA Championship history.
[crowd cheers, applauds]
I don't want the persona of being content with doing what I've done
in the game of golf, I wanted to prove that I had the hunger to do more.
[Sean] The hype built incredibly after 2014
when he won the Open at Hoylake.
-[commentator] The champion. -[crowd cheers, applauds]
[commentator 3] McIlroy led the British Open wire-to-wire.
[commentator 2] McIlroy joins Jack Nicklaus and Tiger Woods
as the only players to have won three majors by the age of 25.
So, here's a question, is he the next Tiger Woods?
[commentator] In golf, we have a new Tiger Woods.
[Sean] He was positioned as, you know, the next successor in the world of golf.
You know, I think that definitely came with a level of expectation, no question.
[energized music playing]
[Gary] I mean, what a summer.
You became the first European player to win three separate majors,
which just leaves the Masters. That's the next one, the next target?
Yeah, the green jacket. Yeah, that's the one I'm aiming for next year.
Um, if I complete the career Grand Slam,
I think only five golfers in history have got it,
so it'd be a huge thing to go for at 25 years of age.
Trying to join that list of people that have won the Grand Slam,
it's like you're trying to put yourself among
these absolute legends of the game.
Gene Sarazen.
Ben Hogan.
Gary Player.
Jack Nicklaus.
Tiger Woods. I absolutely idolized him.
And that's where, you know, there's all of these little doubts
that start to creep in.
Am I worthy of this?
Is this what I'm supposed to do?
It's like impostor syndrome.
Like, it's like this... [stammers] you know...
No, why have this... me?!
I'm part, you know, that's where it sort of gets to.
And I think that's the scary part.
Rory McIlroy, for the Masters next year
in his first green jacket in the career Grand Slam.
And he leaves it short! Oh, no! [chuckles]
I cannot do that in April. [chuckles]
I think the significance of the Masters for him and for, you know,
the wider golf story, it became very real after 2014.
[commentator] There's been heartbreak so many times.
This is his 11th chance to complete that career Grand Slam.
[Rory] For most of my career, it's never just been about the Masters.
From 2015 to 2025, it was the Masters and...
Oh, no. Sit. Ah, sit.
Sit, sit. Fore right!
I feel like that Grand Slam conversation just brought a lot of baggage with it.
Maybe I didn't put myself all the way out there
in this tournament at certain points,
because, you know, if you get just this close to doing it,
and then, it's taken away for some reason,
like, that's hard, that's hard to handle.
As the years have went on, I talked to different people
about that pressure.
I had lunch with Jack.
[commentator] Jack Nicklaus receives a rousing ovation
as he walks on to the final green.
We talked about all kinds of things with the game,
and what to do, and I talked to him about patience.
Just be patient, it's gonna come.
You're too good a player for it not to come.
Many people do it in different ways.
You figure out what your abilities are,
and you only try to do what you can do,
not what somebody else can do.
I knew what Jack was getting at, because my tendency when I was younger
was to play aggressive swashbuckling golf.
[commentator] That was some drive by Rory McIlroy, my goodness.
[commentator 2] That's gonna be hard to beat a guy who hits it so bloody far.
[commentator 3] Second from the pines.
-Oh! -[commentator] It's another good one.
[commentator 2] Beautiful shot that sat down like a butterfly with sore feet.
But I would say I was too much at either side of the spectrum,
so, I'd be really swashbuckling and really, really aggressive,
but then, when it mattered, and I was in contention,
I would get way too tentative and way too cautious.
[crowd murmurs]
[commentator] Oh, he missed it as well.
I don't believe this.
You want to play smart, but you also want
to recognize when you have your chances.
[crowd applauds]
[commentator] Rory has put some tough holes behind him.
We're going to the tough seventh.
[commentator 2] It is the most difficult fairway to hit this week.
Miss this fairway at your peril.
[crowd cheers, applauds]
[Rory] Seven was a tee shot all week that I struggled with.
[commentator] Not happy with the tee shot.
This is very far left.
Hits one of the trees over there.
[crowd applauds]
[commentator 3] Bryson looking for a spark.
[commentator 4] He'd give up some distance for accuracy.
[crowd applauds]
[Rory] When I was walking up to it, I'm just like, please, have something.
Have some sort of shot, some sort of gap.
The one thing Harry and I always say to ourselves is,
all I want is a back swing and a gap.
[commentator] Just talking to Harry Diamond, his caddie.
[Rory] Yeah, I mean, I think I can get it pretty much there.
[Rory] Harry was begging me.
He's like, just chip it out, we can make four this way.
And I'm like, no, I can see a gap here.
And he's like, what are you talking about? There's nothing there.
I'm like, no, no, I can get a nine iron up, and I can do this.
I like it. I feel like I've got a shot.
[dramatic music intensifying]
[fan shouts] Yeah, Rory!
[commentator] Clipped one little bit of the pine tree.
[crowd murmurs]
[commentator 2] And the ball lands on the green and almost goes into the hole!
Wow, what a shot from Rory McIlroy!
And he's roaring with laughter. He cannot believe it.
That's the kid in McIlroy, that's the young kid playing golf.
He cannot believe he's pulled that off.
To take those shots on at such a crucial time.
[chuckling] Nobody else is going to do it, only him.
[commentator] Let's find out what Bryson is thinking.
[commentator 3] That was actually very well played.
[crowd murmurs, shouts]
[commentator 2] Yeah, just brilliant.
[crowd applauds]
If there was a fault in Rory, I think he has a tendency
not to manage his game when he has pressure situations.
[crowd] Oh!
[commentator] I don't know how you leave that short.
-[commentator 2] He didn't think he could. -[crowd applauds]
[commentator 3] Bryson's not gonna go away today.
That final round was made maybe a little bigger
because of what happened at Pinehurst the year before.
You know, another chance to win a major.
Got off to a great start.
I just, you know, I just got a little uneasy and a bit tense.
[crowd] Oh!
[commentator 2] Excruciating short misses for McIlroy.
I was in the 18th tower calling that final round.
Nobody's had more pressure on 'em over the last ten years.
Everybody in the world knows that Rory hasn't won since 2014,
-won a major. -[crowd cheers, applauds]
Bryson at Pinehurst kinda won over the crowd a little bit.
[commentator] Was Bryson has is real innate grit,
and you don't feel grit from Rory.
[Brad] I know Rory has said it afterwards,
that's, you know, he probably got out of his rhythm a little bit
by thinking a little too much about the situation.
Which, how do you not?
[interviewer] What happens on nine between you and Bryson?
So, we both hit good drives at nine, and we both hit really good second shots.
[commentator] Here's Bryson.
-[crowd applauds] -[commentator 3] It's a beauty.
Big shot for Rory.
[commentator 3] Must fly into the hole to avoid the shoulder off the bunker.
[commentator] And it's judged really, really nicely by McIlroy.
He's putting uphill from about the same distance
as Bryson DeChambeau,
trying to get into 13 under par.
I thought it very clearly was my putt.
I thought, his ball was slightly closer than mine.
We sort of look at each other and he's like,
well, I'm like, well, I think it's me to go.
And he's like, well, I think it's me to go.
It's a very gamesmanship-y match play thing.
Really, both of us want to putt first,
because if you can hole that putt before your opponent,
it puts pressure on them.
He goes, so, why don't we just throw a tee up for it
to see who goes first, and I'm like,
no, this is the final round of the Masters, this isn't some, like,
game on a Tuesday afternoon somewhere. I'm like, no.
I wasn't gonna wilt in that situation. I was just gonna stand firm.
So, I said, there's a ref, why don't we get him to come and measure?
And he said, no, no, it's fine. You can go, anyway, I don't care.
And I just felt like that was a really big moment.
[commentator] McIlroy putting first for birdie.
-[crowd cheers] -[commentator 2] McIlroy.
[Rory] I was proud of myself for holding my ground.
[commentator 2] Now the demand is on DeChambeau
to answer it back.
[commentator] He has to answer right here.
[crowd] Oh!
[commentator 3] And McIlroy has told him who's the boss here.
[commentator] Rory will go to the second side with a four shot lead.
I felt, like, going into that back nine that Bryson wasn't really, um,
a factor in the tournament, at that point.
[commentator] On to the second nine.
The most exciting nine holes of golf.
Plus the most pressure-packed.
[commentator 5] It was Gary Player, the three time Masters champion
who said you don't win the Masters with strategy you win it with nerves.
And we're gonna see some nerves tested here on that back nine today.
[commentator] It's not gonna make it, that could go in the water.
Yes, the ripples tell the story.
[commentator] This is where it started to come undone back in 2011.
[commentator 2] You know, for Rory, having the lead there,
I'm sure the memories of 2011,
going back to the tenth hole how's his tee shot gonna go?
[commentator] My goodness.
He must have hit a tree.
[commentator 2] Won't remember what happened back in 2011.
[Rory] 2011 was the big one
where I probably had the greatest chance.
But for me, in my mind, it wasn't just 2011,
it was all the years after that where I felt like I had chances
and just, I didn't do this right, or I didn't do that right.
I could go through every single year and tell you where it went wrong.
[commentator] Welcome to this tradition unlike any other.
Wow. It's gone off sideways.
Welcome to this tradition unlike any other.
[crowd gasps]
[interviewer 2] How do you manage wanting to win this tournament
but not the desire being so big that it becomes an obstacle?
[overlapping] ...to this tradition unlike any other.
[commentator] It just hit of a sprinkler head,
up into the Azaleas...
[reporter] Do you think the expectation about the Grand Slam has had an effect...
[reporter] Do you think you found the balance
between how that motivates you and how that pressures you?
[reporter] ...the weight and the scrutiny it takes to be considered
the greatest talent in the game?
[interviewer 2] Do you feel like you're middle aged now, or how do you see it?
[reporter] Do you believe you'll win, if not this year, some year?
[Rory] You know, trying to block out the noise is the best thing,
but admittedly, it was hard for me to do that.
I've always been a big responder
to encouragement and positive feedback.
It's all about the confidence, I find.
You see, when Rory started, really,
I used to take Rory out every Sunday,
play nine holes.
I used to change all the holes on the scorecard.
The first hole being a par four,
I used to change it to a par five.
And encourage Rory, you know. So, at the end of the day,
we used to go in for the Coke and a packet of crisps,
and the boys would say, "What'd you shoot today?"
Three under. Rory just loved that. He was about this height.
Three under par, that's brilliant, Rory, you know?
And you see, when Rory started to shoot under par,
he had no fear.
'Cause it was all in there.
[commentator] So many around the world enraptured by this moment.
Anxious to see it happen.
-[man] Yes. -[crowd cheers]
[commentator] Perfect.
[commentator 3] He's a different player today
than he was in 2011.
[Rory] My start on Sunday in 2025
was way worse than my start in 2011.
It would've been really easy to get frustrated after that first nine.
But I think because of that experience
over the past 14 years, I didn't panic.
I knew there was still a long way to go.
[commentator] Club comes out of his hands.
Doesn't matter.
-[crowd cheers] -What a shot.
[Rory] I felt like my patience was rewarded
with how I played that hole.
-[crowd cheers] -[commentator] And it's in the hole!
It's another birdie for Rory McIlroy.
[commentator 2] And the triple bogey back in 2011
is a distance memory for McIlroy.
[crowd chants] Rory! Rory! Rory!
[Brad] Bryson...
It was surprising to me that he wasn't on his game.
I think a lot of people thought he would go out there and really contend.
When you had this pairing of Rory-Bryson in the first nine holes,
and Rory's got a big lead now,
it's almost like you forgot there were other players playing in the tournament.
[commentator] Watching Justin Rose.
[commentator 3] A few holes ahead of Rory.
[commentator 4] A long way away here for birdie at eleven.
[commentator 4] He is gonna need something special
if that is going to transpire...
Oh! That's special!
Justin Rose.
[commentator 5] Not out of it yet.
[Rory] With the emergence of Justin on the back nine,
all of a sudden, it's like, okay, you know, here we go.
[commentator] It's headed toward the first mound.
[commentator 3] Gentle.
[commentator 4] That is six inches away from being wet.
He said all week he wasn't gonna pay any attention
to the leader boards.
I wonder if he took a little peek.
[commentator] Just right.
[commentator 2] As far as Rory's concerned,
there's no lead big enough, because this guy is charging.
[commentator 3] Justin Rose for birdie.
Oh, my goodness.
Tied for second.
[Rory] That brings pressure,
but I still had the lead.
[commentator] Should Rory hit another stumble,
Justin Rose could be in position.
[commentator 2] Let's see if Rory chooses the conservative target here on 12.
-[crowd gasps] -[spectator] It's good.
[commentator 3] That's just fine.
[Rory] I made a good two putt, make three there.
[crowd applauds]
And I've got through 10, 11, 12 on even par. Like, I'm very happy.
[commentator 2] And he will march off to the 13th tee.
[commentator 2] Robbie Jones famously wrote
that several tournaments have been won or lost here.
[Rory] A lot of people's chances to win the Masters
have become unraveled on the 13th hole.
[commentator 2] I think this is the golf tournament, this shot right here.
[Rory] There's bunkers to the left,
there's water to the front on the right.
[crowd gasps]
[commentator] And his hopes of a first green jacket
may have just sunk to the bottom of Rae's creek.
[commentator 3] Now, we go in to another dimension again.
[Rory] You're trying to overcome all of the history,
these memories,
all these different things that are going through your head
while you're playing that golf course,
and trying to win this massive tournament.
[crowd applauds]
[Rory] And that's one of the hurdles that I have found so hard to overcome,
like, you have to get over the demons you have on that course,
but you also have to get over
all those other little ghosts that are lurking around the corner
that aren't yours, either.
So, usually,
I would approach it as a hole that I can get to the green in two,
and give myself an eagle opportunity.
But I didn't want to take on too much risk.
I turn to Harry and say, at this point I've got a nice little bit of a cushion,
and I'm like, do you like playing this as a three shotter?
And he's like, love it.
So, I hit three wood off the tee.
And then, I lay up with an eight iron.
The first two shots went as well as they could've.
[crowd applauds]
[commentator] That's that scoreboard I was talking about.
As you walk up 13, it's impossible not to see it.
[Rory] I tried most of the week to avoid those big white scoreboards,
which is easier said than done.
Once I got to the ball, I think Justin had just made another birdie.
-[commentator] And in. -[crowd cheers]
[commentator 3] Are you kidding me?
[commentator 4] And suddenly, the pressure is gonna become enormous on McIlroy.
[Rory] There was a bit of reaction from the crowd.
[crowd cheers, applauds]
[Rory] I'd make my back swing and at the last moment...
I sort of just leaned into it a bit.
[commentator] Ah, completely tightened up.
-[commentator 3] Oh, whoa. -[crowd gasps]
-[commentator 2] Can't explain it. -He's blocked this
-short little shot. -[commentator 5] Thirty feet.
[commentator 4] By miles!
[crowd applauds]
[commentator 5] Oh, Rory.
[commentator] Another poor shot under the extreme pressure.
So, now, he's gotta go for a bogey.
[commentator 6] It makes you wonder about the strategy
of just backing off and deciding from the tee
that you're going to play this as a three shotter.
Your adrenaline, your body has been conditioned
to just go for it today.
[commentator] Especially, the way he played those shots at seven, Jimmy,
when he went the nine irons through the trees, over the trees,
was so happy and bouncing around, and so aggressive.
[commentator 2] This is crucial.
This to limit the damage.
[crowd] Oh!
[commentator] And that's a double for McIlroy.
[commentator 3] His fourth of the week.
[commentator 4] No player has won the Masters
after making four double bogeys or worse.
[commentator 3] And the Masters is wide open once again.
[crowd gasps]
[commentator 3] And now, the spectators, these patrons, are feeling
that something is really brewing
over the course of this final couple of holes.
[Rory] It was this first time where I had
a moment in the tournament where my mind
didn't automatically go to, like, a positive place.
[commentator] Rory's lost the spit in his mouth, right now.
Cannot believe it.
[crowd gasps]
[commentator 3] He's gotta keep the train on the tracks now.
[Rory] My thing with Augusta, I think, during the course of my career
would be, like, one stretch that would ruin the tournament for me.
[commentator] Big swing at it, and comes up short.
[Rory] Because a little bit of the scar tissue had built up,
I was like, always waiting for something bad to happen.
[commentator] McIlroy for his par.
[spectator] Get in, get in, get in...
[crowd] Oh!
[commentator] And he is now lost the lead
at the 89th Masters tournament.
[crowd applauds]
Just when you thought it was a sure thing, now you're like, you can't win now.
[Gerry] I had to go and pour Rosie a drink to calm her down.
You know, I actually had a drink myself.
I mean, I know Rory like the back of my hand.
You see, each year coming up to the Masters,
Rory was always, he wasn't Rory.
No.
He was always very...
edgy, is that the word?
If you talked about the Masters, he was a bit, like, jumpy, you know.
He was trying too hard.
[Rory] I don't know if I'm proud to admit this or not proud to admit this,
but I've tried a lot of things going into Augusta.
Whether it's getting to the tournament really early,
getting to the tournament really late, not playing the par three tournament...
playing the par three tournament, not doing media,
playing practice rounds the weeks prior,
or not playing practice rounds the week prior.
Hypnosis.
No, it's not, it's not like that.
It's not hypnosis like you think where...
You're in a very deep sleep.
[Rory] Someone taps you and knocks you out.
You know, it's, uh, there's a little more science to it.
My game was excelling at, like, the sort of run of the mill tour stop
but once I got to the Masters, I would play well, but not well enough.
People would always compare it to earlier in my career,
the major record earlier in my career, and I started
almost resent the major championships
for having such a massive, um, importance in the game.
It just that, it started to eat away at me.
I hadn't won a major for ten years now.
I think I lost, probably, a little bit of the love for the game in that period.
You know that childlike joy and enthusiasm?
[Rosie giggles] How are you gonna get out of that one?
[laughs]
[Rory] I've always been very comfortable on my own.
And sometimes, I'm stubborn and sometimes,
I'm reluctant to reach out for help,
and I feel like I can figure it out on my own.
But I needed to get over that.
I remember I was really struggling,
and I drove from the Scottish Open
to the Open Championship at Birkdale,
and I listened to the audiobook
Golf is Not a Game of Perfect by Bob Rotella.
[Bob Rotella] Too often Freud's theories are boiled down to a belief
that people are the victim of circumstances beyond their control.
I don't buy that.
A person with great dreams can achieve great things.
A person without the confidence to pursue his or her dreams
has consigned himself or herself to a life of frustration and mediocrity.
[Rory] I've know Bob Rotella, basically, the whole way throughout my career.
And I'm like, why don't I just call him? Why don't I call him?
[Bob Rotella] We're all dealing with doubt and fear.
Failure never ruins anybody.
Doubt and fear will kill you.
With Rory, I mean, we prepare by anticipating we're gonna miss
all kinds of shots and putts.
We're gonna get all kinds of bad breaks.
But you have to see what you want, rather than what you don't want
or fear might happen.
[commentator] Rory McIlroy has watched his lead disappear.
[commentator 2] He knows the magnitude of the moment now.
[Bob Rotella] Rory and I talk a lot about,
how do you feel when you're playing your best golf?
You know, when you're the happiest, when you're most joy-filled,
and you're really loving the game that you tell me you love.
When you walk off the golf course, every night, if you can go back to you room,
look in the mirror, and go, "Man, I loved how I felt out there today,"
you know you gave yourself your best chance.
And that's all we can do.
[commentator] So, can he hit one great tee shot on the par fives
and it change his day?
[crowd cheers, applauds]
[commentator 3] He could be blocked out.
He's in the fairway, but he could be blocked out
with his second shot. A little grimace from him.
[commentator 3] Rory's gotta play about a 20 yard hook.
He's hitting out of the shadows, the left hand side of 15.
[commentator 4] Yeah, I mean a best case scenario
is throw it in that right bunker and try and get it up and down.
[Rory] I needed to pull something out of the bag at that point,
because, you know, I was going in the wrong direction.
When you're amped up and when you're under pressure,
those are the hardest, or for me, anyway,
they've been the hardest shots to hit.
I stood up,
and I'd made the most trusting, committed swing.
I knew it as soon as I hit it, and I started to walk after it.
[commentator] Is this enough?
-It is! -[crowd cheers]
Oh, here he comes!
[commentator 3] The shot of a lifetime!
That was one of the most fantastic shots I've ever seen.
First of all, I don't think many people would've tried it,
but I think he felt like he needed to at the time.
Sometimes, you need to make a shot, and you do it.
[Rory] I'll remember the feeling of hitting that shot
for the rest of my life.
I don't know if I'll ever hit a better golf shot
under that amount of pressure again in my career.
[crowd chanting] Rory! Rory!
[commentator] Poised to make eagle to take the lead.
[cheering]
[commentator 3] Rory has a chance to put a hand on the light switch right here.
-[crowd] Oh! -[commentator 3] It was feeble.
[commentator] He goes back to look at it.
There's the bad news. He's gotta live with this.
This is about exorcising demons here, Carl, and he's not done exorcising.
[commentator 4] Yeah, I don't know why he went back there to look at it.
That was a bad stroke, he knows it.
[commentator] So, it's a birdie still to take the lead.
It's excruciating what you gotta do to try to close this deal.
[Rosie] One day, you know, when he was a teenager,
I heard somebody in the crowd say,
"If that kid could putt, he'd win everything." [laughs]
[Rory] It was my least favorite part of the game growing up.
I always enjoyed the longer part of the game better.
I always enjoyed the driver. I always enjoyed hitting iron.
The closer you get to the hole, the more tense you can be.
I always felt, well, it has to feel hard, because that's what it's always felt like.
And then, when you feel like you've hit a perfect putt
that doesn't go in, you start to question, for example, on 15.
I missed that putt on the low side, so then, when I'm hitting the putt on 16,
I'm like well, that putt at the last broke more than I thought,
maybe I should give it a little less brake.
[crowd] Oh!
[Rory] And then, you miss it on the high side.
[commentator] Two putts in a row that could've easily gone down.
[commentator] Rose has a putt to tie the lead.
-[spectator] Get in the hole! -[commentator] Got a chance!
Oh, wow! What a putt!
Justin Rose.
[commentator 2] No lead is safe around here.
[Brad] We're all guilty at points in our careers
whether it's part of your swing, short game, or on the putting green
with thinking about the mechanics of how-to,
reading the instruction manual.
How you're supposed to do it, rather than just letting it happen.
[commentator] It looks pretty good, yes. It's in the fairway.
He needs a birdie either on 17 or 18 to win it outright.
[Brad] When I first helped Rory with putting,
the brunt of what we talked about is his resilience.
You have to have that, and more so on the putting green
than any other part of the game.
'Cause you don't go with 18 putts, you know.
You miss almost every hole, you're missing a putt, right?
[commentator] He's gotta have this putt for birdie,
to leave it to 12 under and the lead with one hole remaining.
[Brad] When the best players in the world miss putts,
yeah, they can get angry or they can get upset,
but they know how to get back there and give it a chance to be great again.
[cheering]
[commentator] Rory McIlroy will take a one stroke lead
to the 72nd hole here at the 89th Masters.
[Rory] Justin had finished at that point.
And then, all of a sudden, it's like, wow,
I need a par to win the Masters.
[crowd chanting] Rory! Rory!
[commentator] How hard is this tee shot under normal conditions?
[commentator 3] It's the narrowest on the golf course.
[cheering]
[commentator] What a time to deliver this.
He walked after it.
Careful.
[commentator 3] It's a beauty.
[commentator 4] One step closer.
[commentator] And now, the moment for Rory McIlroy.
-[crowd] Oh! -[commentator] It's gone in the bunker.
He has to get up and down from the sand.
And if he's gonna do this,
he will have done it the hardest, hardest way imaginable.
[commentator 2] I don't have any words to describe what I've just seen,
because that's impossible, for any top class player,
let alone someone as good as Rory McIlroy,
to miss the green at 125 yards?
[Bob Rotella] If you listen to televised golf,
they're constantly talking about you can't make mistakes like that,
if you want to win tournaments like this.
And of course, everything I teach is, well, of course you can.
People do it all the time.
So, how do you respond when you miss a shot?
[Rory] Just stay patient, stay patient.
Wait for good things to happen.
[commentator] Again, under normal conditions,
he would get this up and down.
[Rory] The ball was in a good spot. It was on the upslope. I was like,
if you need to get a ball up and down from a bunker, this is the lie that you want.
[crowd cheers, applauds]
[Brad] Here's a putt to win the Masters.
So, you know, you have that steady murmur of the crowd
that goes to deathly silence while you're over a putt.
It's crickets.
How do you stay athletic and instinctive and hit it,
and not think about everything that's in hand
for the career Grand Slam?
[serene music playing]
The story's been written a million times.
The questions have been asked repeatedly.
When? If?
Can you do it?
How badly do you want it?
All of those moments lead to this.
[crowd groans]
[all] Oh!
[commentator] Going to a play off.
[crowd applauds]
[commentator 3] After that disappointment, will he be able to regroup?
Reset?
[Rory] I should've got it done in regulation.
I should've made a four from where I drove that ball.
There's just all these different things that are going through your head.
[commentator] He just wasn't up to it.
[commentator 3] He underperforms in the heat of battle.
He got on the precipice of winning this tournament,
and instead of driving over the line, he hesitated.
[Rory] It's a pretty long walk from the 18th green to scoring.
There is a definite tension in the air.
But then, I'm walking with Harry,
and Harry said to me, he said, pal,
we would've taken this position on Monday morning.
And like, it just snapped me into such a good frame of mind,
and I was like, yeah, we would've taken this position Monday morning. Absolutely.
We got on the golf cart, and it was like the first bit of peace
that I'd had all day.
It was like this quiet, serene,
you know, long shadows, hear the birds chirping.
It was like this is, this is really nice.
It just got me thinking so positively about the moment.
You know, I had a second chance.
[crowd cheering]
[Rory] The first thing I thought was, all right,
well, let's just hit the same shot that you just hit ten minutes ago.
Make the same swing and hit the same drive.
[commentator 3] Sudden death, up the 18th for the Masters green jacket.
[commentator 2] One of these two players is going
to go home absolutely crestfallen.
-[commentator] That looks good. -[commentator 3] He's ripped that.
[commentator] He's absolutely ripped it.
And that one is sailing down the fairway completely out-driven Justin Rose.
So much adrenaline in that.
Two fantastic tee shots.
JR hit a really good drive, and I hit a good drive
but JR was a good, I don't know 30 yards behind me.
[commentator] This is a fantastic opportunity
for him to go ahead and put the pressure on McIlroy.
-[crowd gasps] -Oh, it's right next to a hole!
[commentator 2] Actually, a little unlucky that it got stuck right there.
Thought it would've fed back a couple feet.
He hit an amazing shot right at the pin.
I remember when it was in the air, I was just going, oh, no.
And then, again, I had basically the same shot
as I had in regulation but I had a flat lie.
[spectator] Check, check, check, check!
No! No!
[crowd applauds]
[commentator] What a shot from McIlroy.
These two Europeans are just going at it, toe to toe.
[commentator 2] And now, it all comes down
to who has got the guts to hole the slippery putt.
[commentator 3] And Rose goes first.
[crowd] Oh!
[spectator] Rory!
[commentator 4] The door is open again
for McIlroy to finish it off.
[commentator] This is two and a half, three feet.
What an approach shot from McIlroy.
What a way to regather himself after the disappointment
in regulation play.
[commentator 4] Look at the long shadows.
Symbolic, this moment.
The journey it's taken to get here.
For all this history.
[cheering]
[commentator] The long journey is over!
McIlroy has his masterpiece.
[all] Yeah!
[Rory] I just screamed at the top of my lungs twice.
Just, like, this visceral release that I've never felt before in my life.
And it's like...
just that moment of...
It's almost like your whole career flashes before your eyes.
And it's like...
all the ups and the downs and the disappointments, and the...
you know, every Sunday night, driving away from that golf club
feeling disappointment and, you know,
it made it all worth it.
[commentator 6] It was Rory McIlroy against Rory McIlroy,
and that has been the story of his career.
[Rory] My wedding day was a wonderful day.
And Poppy being born was a wonderful day.
But they were, they were happy, joyful.
This was like pure relief.
[crowd chanting] Rory! Rory!
[Rory] This is done.
[Rosie] When that last putt went in,
you couldn't stop me crying, for love nor money.
Two and half hours, I cried for.
You know, that's all the hurt over.
It was one of...
the best things I've ever watched.
[Rory] I think a lot of the people have been on that journey with me,
and I think to see how happy they were for me to get it done
was, like, really meaningful and special.
Like, I never... Never in my wildest dreams
did I think I would get to this point.
You know, as an eight year old, yes, I said I want to win all the majors,
and I want to join that list of people that have won the Grand Slam.
It was probably quite naive of me to dream like that in some way, but...
it's what always kept me going.
I want to make eight year old Rory proud.
And make him proud that he didn't give up.
Never doubted it in my mind.
[interviewer] Why not?
Why is there only six people has ever done it?
It must be very special.
And I always knew my son was very, very special.
-[fan] Love you, Rory! -[Rory] Love you, too.
[all laugh]
Uh, and last but certainly not least,
um, over to my left, um, my family.
[voice breaks] My team.
[crowd cheers, applauds]
[clears throat]
They've been on this journey with me, um, the whole way through.
They know the burden that I have carried
to, you know, come here every year and try, and try, and try again.
Um, and...
the one thing I would say to my daughter Poppy
that's sitting over there, never give up on your dreams.
Never, ever give up on your dreams.
It was never gonna be easy.
It was never gonna be straightforward.
It was always gonna be a little messy.
Yeah, was Augusta my white whale? It probably was.
That was the white whale of my career, and I'm glad that I caught it.
I wouldn't say I'll ever tame it, or I'll ever have it fully under control.
But I think to find that persistence
and to find whatever it is I needed to find within myself
to keep coming back and to keep trying,
that's the thing I'm proudest of.
I'm proudest of not... not losing hope.
[serene music plays]
["Everlasting Light" by The Black Keys]
♪Let me be your everlasting light♪
♪The sun when there is none♪
♪I'm a shepherd for you And I'll guide you through♪
♪Let me be your everlasting light♪
♪I'll hold and never scold♪
♪In me you can confide When no one's by your side♪
♪Let me be your everlasting light♪