{"id":92184,"date":"2025-08-24T11:19:16","date_gmt":"2025-08-24T11:19:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/92184\/"},"modified":"2025-08-24T11:19:16","modified_gmt":"2025-08-24T11:19:16","slug":"rory-mcilroy-emptied-augusta-nationals-merch-store-on-this-item-after-he-won-the-masters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/92184\/","title":{"rendered":"Rory McIlroy emptied Augusta National’s merch store on this item after he won the Masters"},"content":{"rendered":"

[Picture: Augusta National]<\/p>\n

Rory McIlroy swears he will never get tired of signing Masters flags after his victory in April at Augusta National Golf Club<\/a>. He\u2019ll have at least 1,100 chances to prove it.<\/p>\n

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That\u2019s how many he bought in the aftermath of his playoff victory over Justin Rose to finally complete the career Grand Slam (winning all four majors in one\u2019s career). <\/p>\n

\u201cThey had 1,100 extra \u2026 like 1,100 left in the merchandise facility at the end of the week, and we took all 1,100,\u201d McIlroy said proudly during his press conference at East Lake Golf Club ahead of this week\u2019s Tour Championship.<\/p>\n

He referenced the unknown rule Augusta National has that only Masters champions are allowed to sign their name inside of the club\u2019s logo on flags.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve waited 17 years to sign that flag in the middle, and I will never complain about doing it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Of course, 1,100 flags excludes the number he already has been asked to sign by friends and well-wishers. He cleaned out the rest of the stock, he said, to be able to give them away as gifts. At $US30 a pop, that\u2019s a quick $US33,000 ($A51,000) he slapped on the credit card. Of course, he earned $US4.2 million, so he barely felt it.<\/p>\n

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McIlroy, 36, is making his eighth appearance in the final event of the FedEx Cup Playoffs, the longest active streak among the 30 players in the field. Until world No. 1 Scottie Scheffler started being Scottie Scheffler again, winning five times, including two majors\u2014the PGA Championship and the Open Championship\u2014McIlroy was looking like the leading candidate for Player of the Year with three wins. In addition to winning the green jacket, he captured The Players Championship and the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am.<\/p>\n

Ranked second in the world, McIlroy\u2019s level of success hasn\u2019t been the same since leaving Augusta, partly because of Scheffler\u2019s re-emerging dominance once he healed fully from a hand injury in December and partly because the wind clearly had gone out of McIlroy\u2019s sails following such a monumental career achievement.<\/p>\n

But the Northern Irishman\u2019s level of enthusiasm talking about his long-sought Masters breakthrough hasn\u2019t waned at all.<\/p>\n

He remembers well that he didn\u2019t take his green jacket off until he went to bed that night\u2014well actually the next morning, finally hitting the bed around 3:30 a.m. He awoke about three hours later.<\/p>\n

\u201cI woke up, and it\u2019s one of those moments where it\u2019s like, \u2018Did that actually happen? And you wake up and you see the green jacket lying over a chair in the bedroom and you think, \u2018Yeah, that did happen yesterday.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

It sure did. But other than a few occasions\u2014approved by the club, he pointed out\u2014he hasn\u2019t put it back on very often. Which surprises him. \u201cI\u2019m reluctant to wear it,\u201d McIlroy said. \u201cIt\u2019s not as if I wear it a lot. I have it hanging in my wardrobe in a place where I can see it every day, but I don\u2019t know, I always thought if I had one, if I did win the Masters one day, I\u2019d never have the thing off, and it hasn\u2019t been that way. I haven\u2019t worn it as much as I thought I would.\u201d<\/p>\n

A busy competitive schedule still awaits the five-time major winner the rest of this year with the Ryder Cup, events on the DP World Tour, and the Australian Open at Royal Melbourn<\/a>e\u2014a total of seven tournaments. But his most meaningful stop will be a return to Augusta National. Actually, he has a couple of trips to Georgia upcoming. He\u2019ll savour them like never before.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a beautiful place to play golf. If you stop to actually look around and look at the plants and look at the trees and hear the birds, it\u2019s a beautiful place to spend your day and to spend your night and go down to the wine cellar and pick a bottle of wine. It\u2019s one of the coolest experiences you can have in golf,\u201d he said whimsically. \u201cI\u2019ve always said some of my favourite times at Augusta were when it wasn\u2019t the Masters Tournament, but it\u2019ll be lovely to next time go there and go up to the champions locker room and put on my green jacket and feel like I belong.\u201d<\/p>\n

The first of those occasions will be particularly meaningful, he added.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019ll probably be a little emotional,\u201d McIlroy admitted. \u201cI definitely have planned one trip that my dad is going to come on as well, and my dad wasn\u2019t there when I won, so I think that\u2019ll be a cool moment to be with him. Yeah, it\u2019ll be emotional. Like. I still get a little emotional thinking about it.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"[Picture: Augusta National] Rory McIlroy swears he will never get tired of signing Masters flags after his victory…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":92185,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[566],"tags":[64,63,755,85],"class_list":["post-92184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-golf","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92184","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92184"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92184\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/92185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}