{"id":527646,"date":"2026-04-13T00:25:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T00:25:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/527646\/"},"modified":"2026-04-13T00:25:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T00:25:11","slug":"2026-masters-recap-how-back-to-back-champion-rory-mcilroy-survived-nerve-shredding-final-day-to-create-more-augusta-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/527646\/","title":{"rendered":"2026 Masters RECAP: How back-to-back champion Rory McIlroy survived nerve-shredding final day to create more Augusta history"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>More from McIlroy<\/p>\n<p class=\"embedParagraph_1I1nW9oF\">Speaking about his win, McIlroy added: &#8216;I can&#8217;t believe I waited 17 years to get one green jacket and now I get two in a row. I think my perseverance at this tournament over the years has really started to pay off.<\/p>\n<p class=\"embedParagraph_1I1nW9oF\">&#8216;It was a tough weekend, I did the bulk of my work on Thursday and Friday but I managed to get it done.<\/p>\n<p class=\"embedParagraph_1I1nW9oF\">&#8216;Going into the tee with a two shot cushion instead of one like last year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"embedParagraph_1I1nW9oF\">&#8216;It was a good performance by me but I&#8217;m lucky no one really came at me either, not like Justin [Rose] did with his 66 last year.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/1776037605278_wide_galleryImage_.JPG\" alt=\"\" height=\"367\" width=\"634\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"More from McIlroy Speaking about his win, McIlroy added: &#8216;I can&#8217;t believe I waited 17 years to get&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":527647,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[97,59,5904,7598,76309,217,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-527646","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-dailymail","9":"tag-gb","10":"tag-golf","11":"tag-live-blog","12":"tag-masters-tournament","13":"tag-sport","14":"tag-sports","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom","17":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527646","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=527646"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527646\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/527647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=527646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=527646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=527646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}