ATLANTA – Rory McIlroy didn’t depart Augusta Nationwide as Masters Champion with out a final buy from the present store.
He stated there are 1,100 pin flags remaining on the Masters Store.
“And we took all 1,100,” McIlroy was his most memorable for Sunday, April 1st, forward of the Tour Championship on Tuesday, forward of the top of the PGA Tour season.
“It was rather a lot,” he stated of the flag he signed. “However I am not uninterested in signing them. I have been ready 17 years to signal that flag within the center, and I am not going to complain about doing it.”
Whereas gamers all the time signal flags for followers, the golf protocol is that solely the Masters Champion will signal his title inside the US contours, that are a part of golf’s most well-known brand.
It is solely 4 months since McIlroy got here to an exhilarating finish to his 17-year pursuit of profitable the Inexperienced Jacket, making a birdie on the primary playoff gap to beat Justin Rose to finish his profession grand slam.
He hasn’t received since, and generally he talked about discovering a motive. However being a Masters champion isn’t outdated. He’s already planning a visit to Augusta Nationwide. Luxurious was given to the champions.
If something shocked him, it was a 12 months’s possession of the Masters Inexperienced Jacket.
He barely wears it.
McIlroy stated he wore all of it night time till he went to mattress round 3:30am, then awoke and skilled the sensations that many others have. He noticed his jacket lined in a chair. It jogs my memory that it is not all a dream.
He wore it throughout a quick look on the Golf Writers Affiliation dinner through the British Open. In any other case, alternatives would have been uncommon.
“I am reluctant to put on it,” he stated. “It is not like I am carrying it an excessive amount of. I cling in my wardrobe the place I can see it day-after-day. I would all the time by no means have been a grasp.
McIlroy stated he’s touring with buddies who’ve been buddies through the years and members of the Augusta nationwide. He should put on a inexperienced jacket on the membership.
“I all the time stated that a few of my favorite instances at Augusta have been when it wasn’t the Masters Match,” he stated. “But it surely’s good to go there subsequent time and go to the Champions locker room and put on my inexperienced jacket and really feel like I belong.”
