Golf
How Rory McIlroy found strength in his vulnerability to secure greatest moment
One of the most important moments in Rory McIlroy’s historic victory at the Masters came before he had even hit a shot: at Augusta, he said, he was ready to have his heart broken all over again. After the ride he had been on in pursuit of the green jacket, and career grand slam, McIlroy reckoned he had already been through the worst of what his sport could throw at him, and it wasn’t so bad. “You dust yourself off and you go again,” McIlroy said last Tuesday. “I think that’s why I’ve become a little more comfortable in laying everything out there and being somewhat vulnerable.”
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