Rory McIlroy's Masters repeat has 2 equally fascinating outcomes
There's an argument that Rory McIlroy's Masters repeat bid only began when he surged into a six-shot lead.
Rory McIlroy will carry a six-shot lead into Saturday afternoon at the Masters. Getty Images AUGUSTA, Ga. — Of the many people who spent the first two days of the Masters watching Rory McIlroy with the silent awe of a tourist tottering over the edge of the Grand Canyon, perhaps nobody was more gobsmacked than Mason Howell.
The 18-year-old has been looking forward to watching McIlroy at Augusta National on Thursday and Friday for months. When the excitement began on the first tee box, he was so excited that he briefly lost control of his limbs. “I mean, I wouldn’t say I was nervous going into it, but I was when I got to the first tee yesterday,” Howell said with a laugh on Friday afternoon.
“I couldn’t feel my arms and hit it in nine fairway. ” If you haven’t put it together yet, Howell was not just a witness to McIlroy’s throat-stomping over the first two days at Augusta National — he was a victim of the crime, competing in McIlroy’s grouping thanks to his status as reigning U. S.
Amateur winner. The 18-year-old Howell admitted on Friday afternoon that he began thinking about the potential of playing alongside McIlroy — honoring a long-standing club tradition pairing the reigning U. S.
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