The swing key that helped Rory McIlroy win a second green jacket

Rory McIlroy hits balls on the range after Saturday's third round of the Masters. Getty Images Just 24 hours before his historic back-to-back Masters win , Rory McIlroy was headed to the practice area, frustrated but determined. His swing wasn’t quite there — and he knew it.

If he was going to secure his second green jacket, he needed to fix the miss that had just cost him his six-shot lead — and fast. Shot by shot, he stayed with it, working through the feels until something started to click. After the win, he opened up about the fix he found after Saturday’s round.

Instruction One miss is derailing Rory McIlroy’s Masters chances. Here’s why By: Zephyr Melton “My path was just getting a little bit too far to the right with every club in the bag. So I was just hitting too much of a draw,” McIlroy said, “Then when the path is coming from that far inside, if you don’t keep your body moving at all, the ball is just going to go dead left.

” McIlroy was swinging too far from the inside, which led him to hit big draws. When his lower body slowed or stalled through impact, his upper body and hands took over — closing the face and turning the inside path into a hook that went hard left. Rory’s swing fix To fix this fault, McIlroy leaned into a simple feel: shots that forced his body to keep moving.