Rory McIlroy put major championship miseries behind him with a heart-stopping victory at the Masters on Sunday that was nearly as nerve-wracking as some of the near-misses that came before. “You know, there was points on the back nine today, I thought, ‘Have I let this slip again?’” McIlroy admitted after giving up the solo lead three times before rolling in a four-foot birdie putt at the first playoff hole to beat Justin Rose.Just a complete rollercoaster of a day,” McIlroy said. “An emotionally draining week for a lot of reasons, a lot of just rollercoaster rounds and late finishes.
“(I’m) absolutely thrilled to be sitting here at the end of the week as the last man standing.”
The world number two was riding high coming into the first major of the year having captured two US PGA Tour titles this year.
But he had two double-bogeys in a first-round 72 that left him seven strokes off the pace and two more on Sunday to make him the first Masters winner with four doubles on his scorecard.
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