Rory McIlroy won the Masters. It is an unbelievable sentence. The golfing world is still astounded that we have said it out loud in consecutive years now.
A popular take in the aftermath of the 90th edition of the Masters (this most recent one) is that Rory would not have been able to win it without first capturing the 89th. The experience from winning at Augusta clearly mattered to Rory, but so did the psychological freedom that came from finally ridding himself of the burden associated with doing so.
Rory spoke openly all last week about how he was more comfortable on the grounds at Augusta National than he ever had
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