Rory McIlroy Defeats Justin Rose in Grandstand Finish – ryan

Rory McIlroy is in the Famous Butler Cabin at Augusta National Golf Club.

Here’s what he had to say about today’s brilliant win.

“It feels incredible. This is my 17th time here and I started to wonder if it would ever be my time.

“The last 10 years coming here with the burden of the grand slam on my shoulders and trying to achieve that… I’m sort of wondering what we’re all going to talk about going into next year’s masters (Laughs). I just absolutely honored and thrilled and just to be able to call myself a masters Champion.

“When I hit the race shot into the creek on 13, I thought I did a really good job bouncing back from that and also the double bogey on the first.

“I was really nervous going out. It was almost as if the double bogey at the first calm my nerves a little bit and got me into it in a funny way.

“(On the play-off hole) I just needed to make a good, committed swing and I made one at the right time.

“It was 14 years in the making from going out with a four-shot lead in 2011 and feeling like I could have got it done there. There was a lot of pent up emotion that just came out on that 18th green.

“A moment like that makes all the years and all the close calls worth it.”