{"id":1856,"date":"2025-04-13T21:01:10","date_gmt":"2025-04-13T13:01:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/84news.top\/?p=1856"},"modified":"2025-04-13T21:01:10","modified_gmt":"2025-04-13T13:01:10","slug":"mcilroy-completes-career-grand-slam-with-emotional-masters-playoff-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cloudfclub.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/13\/mcilroy-completes-career-grand-slam-with-emotional-masters-playoff-win\/","title":{"rendered":"McIlroy completes career Grand Slam with emotional Masters playoff win"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>World number two McIlroy snapped an 11-year major win drought despite squandering the solo lead three times in the final round, weeping as he finally captured the green jacket that so long eluded him.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It feels incredible,&#8221; McIlroy said. &#8220;This is my 17th time here. I was wondering if it would ever be my time. I&#8217;m thrilled and so proud to be able to call myself a Masters champion.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>McIlroy joined Jack Nicklaus, Tiger Woods, Gary Player, Gene Sarazen and Ben Hogan as the only players to win all four majors.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The last 10 years coming here with the burden of the Grand Slam on my shoulders and trying to achieve that, I&#8217;m sort of wondering what we&#8217;re all going to talk about going into next year&#8217;s Masters,&#8221; McIlroy said.<\/p>\n<p>Needing a par on the 72nd hole to win, McIlroy plunked his approach at the par-4 18th into a greenside bunker, blasted out to five feet but then missed a tension-packed par putt, the ball going left of the hole as the crowd groaned.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;My battle today was with myself,&#8221; McIlroy said. &#8220;How I responded to setbacks, that&#8217;s what I&#8217;ll take from this week.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>That set up the playoff at the 18th, which Rose had birdied from 20 feet in regulation.<\/p>\n<p>Rose dropped his approach 15 feet from the hole but McIlroy then landed his second shot four feet from the pin.<\/p>\n<p>Tension built as Rose missed right of the hole and tapped in for par, leaving McIlroy a second chance to win and make history.<\/p>\n<p>This time, McIlroy&#8217;s stroke was true and the emotions exploded after 10 prior failed attempts to complete a career Slam at Augusta National.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;ve dreamed about that moment for as long as I can remember,&#8221; McIlroy said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Augusta (United States) (AFP) \u2013 <\/span>                    Rory McIlroy completed golf&#8217;s career Grand Slam with a tearful Masters victory on Sunday, sinking a tense four-foot birdie putt on the first hole of a sudden death playoff to defeat Justin Rose.                <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"t-content__with-sidebar\">\n<div class=\"t-content__beside-sidebar\" data-article-content>\n<div class=\"t-content__metadata\">\n<div class=\"t-content__dates\">\n<p class=\"m-pub-dates\"><span class=\"m-pub-dates__date\">Issued on: 13\/04\/2025 &#8211; 23:01<\/span><span class=\"m-pub-dates__date\">Modified: 14\/04\/2025 &#8211; 03:25<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"a-reading-time\">\n        <span class=\"a-svg a-svg--picto-clock\" title=\"Reading time\"><\/span> 4 min<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"a-share-button\" data-root-share>\n<p>                                <i class=\"a-svg a-svg--icon-share\"><\/i><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"t-content__main-media\">\n<figure class=\"m-figure m-figure--16x9\">\n<p>        <img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"Part-GTY-2210128112-1-1-0.jpg\" alt=\"Rory McIlroy of Northern Ireland kneels down and cries on the 18th green after winning the Masters to complete a career Grand Slam\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" loading=\"eager\" class=\"m-figure__img lazy\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1855,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2],"class_list":["post-1856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-db"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloudfclub.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1856","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloudfclub.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloudfclub.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloudfclub.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloudfclub.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1856"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cloudfclub.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1856\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloudfclub.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloudfclub.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloudfclub.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloudfclub.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}