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Augusta National Golf Club Chairman Fred Ridley awards the green jacket to Rory McIlroy after the 2026 Masters Tournament. (Hector Vivas\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n
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AUGUSTA, Ga. (AP) \u2014 Rory McIlroy joined more elite company Sunday at the Masters when he pulled away with a pair of birdies around Amen Corner and, as usual, saved a little drama for the end before taking his place in Augusta National history as only the fourth back-to-back champion.<\/p>\n
In a final round where three players had a two-shot lead, McIlroy seized control for good with a bold shot over Rae\u2019s Creek to 7 feet for birdie on the par-3 12th. Then he blistered a 350-yard drive on the par-5 13th that set up another birdie to move three shots ahead.<\/p>\n
There were a few dicey moments, including a shot over the par-3 16th green that required him to use the slope to get in close for par, and a wild drive on the 18th that wound up closer to the 10th fairway. He tapped in for bogey and a 1-under 71 for a one-shot victory over Scottie Scheffler.<\/p>\n
A year ago, his playoff victory over Justin Rose made McIlroy only the sixth player with the career Grand Slam. With another green jacket, McIlroy joined Tiger Woods, Nick Faldo and Jack Nicklaus as the only repeat winners of the Masters.<\/p>\n
\u201cI just can\u2019t believe I waited 17 years to get one green jacket, and I get two in a row,\u201d McIlroy said. \u201cI think all of my perseverance at this golf tournament over the years has really started to pay off. It was a tough weekend. I did the bulk of my work on Thursday and Friday.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut just so, so happy to hang in there and get the job done.\u201d<\/p>\n
McIlroy stood tall when he tapped in the final putt to finish at 12-under 276. There was no relief like last year of going 17 years trying to win the Masters. This was pure joy. And for the first time since 2002 when Woods went back-to-back, it was up to the Augusta National chairman, Fred Ridley, to help him into the green jacket.<\/p>\n
It was more heartache for Rose, and frustration for the others who had a chance.<\/p>\n
Rose had a two-shot lead that evaporated around Amen Corner with two bogeys and a three-putt par. He couldn’t make up enough ground the rest of the way and had to settle for a third close call at the Masters.<\/p>\n
Cameron Young lost his two-shot lead much earlier with a long three-putt bogey on the par-3 sixth and taking bogey on the next hole when he hit wedge from the fairway into a bunker. One shot behind going to the back nine, Young closed with nine straight pars.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere is no negative to take away other than obviously I would\u2019ve loved a different result,\u201d Young said. \u201cI pretty much had a birdie chance on every hole and didn\u2019t make any. That\u2019s how it goes sometimes.\u201d<\/p>\n
As for Scheffler, the world’s No. 1 player was in position to shatter the Masters record with the largest 36-hole comeback in history. He was 12 behind going into the weekend. He was two shots behind as he approached the turn. But he ran off 11 straight pars \u2014 that wasn’t going to cut it during a final round with accessible pins to create excitement.<\/p>\n
Scheffler had to settle for his third runner-up finish in the majors to go along with four titles. His 65-68 weekend made him the first player since 1942 to go bogey-free on the weekend at Augusta.<\/p>\n
\u201cI put up a good fight in order to give myself a chance,\u201d Scheffler said.<\/p>\n
Rose, at age 45 trying to become the second-oldest Masters champion behind Jack Nicklaus (46) in 1986, made it feel as though this was going to be his time. He made a most improbable birdie with a shot out of the trees to a foot on the seventh. That was the start of three straight birdies to close out the front nine and give him the lead.<\/p>\n
But his approach to the 11th was well to the right and he failed to save par. His tee shot on the 12th was long, and his delicate chip didn’t reach the green, leading to another bogey. And then his 30-foot eagle putt on the par-5 13th ran 8 feet by the hole and he missed the birdie putt.<\/p>\n
\u201cChance that got away,\u201d Rose said. \u201cI was by no means free and clear and was nowhere kind of close to having the job done, but I was right in position. … I was really in control. And the mentality was to run through the finish line, not just try and get it done.<\/p>\n
\u201cI was playing great, but just momentum shifted for me around the Amen Corner.\u201d<\/p>\n
That’s where McIlroy thrived. No shot at Augusta is more terrifying that the par-3 12th with the deceptive, swirling wind. McIlroy said he thought back to a practice round at his first Masters in 2009 when Tom Watson told him to wait for the right wind and hit.<\/p>\n
His three-quarter 9-iron aimed at the middle bunker drifted more to the right that he imagined, but it turned out perfect, 7 feet away, closer than anyone all day.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat was a really good golf shot at the right time,\u201d he said. \u201cHuge shot in the tournament.\u201d<\/p>\n
And the on the 13th, where he had put his drives into the trees right of the fairway the first three days, he came up with one of his best swings of the week, leaving him an 8-iron to the green.<\/p>\n
At the end it was a now familiar champion, McIlroy, once tormented by his chase for the green jacket and now a two-time winner whose love for the Masters only deepens.<\/p>\n
His sixth major puts him in a group that includes Faldo. One more and he can tie Harry Vardon for the most majors by a European.<\/p>\n
McIlroy was so ecstatic a year ago that he asked the media when it was over, \u201cWhat are we going to talk about next year?\u201d Now the topic is easy. No one has ever won three in a row.<\/p>\n
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