{"id":1886,"date":"2025-04-14T02:19:10","date_gmt":"2025-04-13T18:19:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/84news.top\/?p=1886"},"modified":"2025-04-14T02:19:10","modified_gmt":"2025-04-13T18:19:10","slug":"mcilroy-in-no-mood-to-talk-on-the-way-to-masters-win-dechambeau","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cloudfclub.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/14\/mcilroy-in-no-mood-to-talk-on-the-way-to-masters-win-dechambeau\/","title":{"rendered":"McIlroy in no mood to talk on the way to Masters win: DeChambeau"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>&#8220;He wouldn&#8217;t talk to me,&#8221; DeChambeau said. &#8220;He was just like &#8212; just being focused, I guess. It&#8217;s not me, though.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>DeChambeau started the day two strokes behind McIlroy, but quickly found himself tied atop the leaderboard when McIlroy double-bogeyed the opening hole.<\/p>\n<p>DeChambeau then birdied the par-five second to take the lead, only to fall behind again at the third as he dropped a shot and McIlroy made his first birdie of the day.<\/p>\n<p>Another two-shot swing on the fourth saw McIlroy push his lead to three and DeChambeau, the reigning US Open champion, wouldn&#8217;t find a way to close the gap.<\/p>\n<p>A double-bogey at the 11th essentially ended his challenge, DeChambeau carding a three-over 75 to finish tied for tied for fifth, four shots behind McIlroy and Justin Rose &#8212; who fell to McIlroy at the first hole of a sudden-death playoff.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Just more of the same with my irons,&#8221; DeChambeau said, adding that they just weren&#8217;t &#8220;dialed-in.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He did have time amid his own struggles to spare some sympathy for McIlroy when his second shot at the 13th bounced into the water for a costly double-bogey.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I wanted to cry for him,&#8221; DeChambeau said. &#8220;I mean, as a professional, you just know to hit it in the middle of the green, and I can&#8217;t believe he went for it, or must have just flared it.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There were times where it looked like he had full control, and at times where it&#8217;s like, what&#8217;s going on?&#8221; DeChambeau said. &#8220;Kind of looked like one of my rounds, actually.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>McIlroy, who was making his 11th attempt to complete a career Grand Slam at the Masters, said he was so nervous before the round that he had to force himself to eat.<\/p>\n<p>And he didn&#8217;t try to calm himself with conversation with the player who took advantage of his late collapse at Pinehurst last year to win a second US Open title.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;No idea,&#8221; DeChambeau said when asked how McIlroy was feeling on he course. &#8220;Didn&#8217;t talk to me once all day.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u00a9 2025 AFP<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Augusta (United States) (AFP) \u2013 <\/span>                    The Augusta National atmosphere was electric as Rory McIlroy stopped-and-started his way to a longed-for Masters triumph on Sunday, but inside the ropes the Northern Ireland star was strictly business, playing partner Bryson DeChambeau said.                <\/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: 14\/04\/2025 &#8211; 04:19<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"a-reading-time\">\n        <span class=\"a-svg a-svg--picto-clock\" title=\"Reading time\"><\/span> 1 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-2210125399-1-1-1.jpg\" alt=\"Rory McIlroy shakes hands with playing partner Bryson DeChambeau at the final hole of regulation at the Masters, where he triumphed in a playoff over Justin Rose\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" loading=\"eager\" class=\"m-figure__img lazy\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1885,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2],"class_list":["post-1886","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\/1886","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=1886"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cloudfclub.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1886\/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=1886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloudfclub.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloudfclub.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}