Rory McIlroy wins second straight Masters, sixth major championship
Rory McIlroy has become the fourth golfer to win consecutive Masters after claiming the green jacket at Augusta National.
AUGUSTA, Ga. – The Green Jacket belongs to Rory McIlroy again. The Northern Irishman overcame a double bogey on the first nine but carded two birdies on the three-hole stretch known as Amen Corner and held off the late charge of world No.
1 Scottie Scheffler to win the 90 th Masters by a stroke and become the fourth player to defend his title. On a warm, sunny day with a few puffy white clouds to break up the baby-blue canvas at Augusta National, McIlroy claimed his sixth career major title, shooting 1-under 71 and signing for a 72-hole total of 12-under 276. McIlroy, who shared the 54-hole lead with Cameron Young, fell two behind after he tugged his tee shot at the par-3 fourth hole left and lipped out a short bogey putt.
He dipped into single-digits at 9 under when he bogeyed No. 6. The patrons groaned when the score was posted up ahead at the leaderboard behind the seventh green but it would be the final dropped shot for McIlroy.
He turned things around with birdies at Nos. 7 and 8, but Rose had shot past him reaching 12 under with four birdies before the turn. Rose, who lost to McIlroy in a sudden-death playoff last year, looked poised to flip the script, grabbing a two-stroke lead as he headed to the back nine, but he bogeyed Nos.