Rory McIlroy doesn't follow the script. It's why we can't get enough
The thing about 2026 Masters champ Rory McIlroy's golf is that the game's odd and captivating beauty is there for all of us to see. Getty Images AUGUSTA, Ga. — There’s more Charlie Brown in this Rory McIlroy than you might realize.
You see it, now and again, in clubhouse locker rooms, with his cap high on his head and the brim pointing toward 3 o’clock, his cheeks filled with air. You saw it at Augusta National Sunday night, in the witching hour, on 18. The only thing he has to do was hit something in play, with any club.
He drove it wildly right, where no 71-hole, two-shot leader has stood before. In this age when we think we know everything, the defending champion knew nothing . Didn’t know where his ball was.
Didn’t know if he would be the first player in Masters history to cough up a six-shot, 36-hole lead. A double bogey would mean a playoff. A playoff is a crap shoot.
He marched off that tee. His parents were in the clubhouse. Millions of us were in the dark.
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