Also, Tiger Woods will be there. As long as Woods can stagger out to the first tee box – on two legs, on one of those Hannibal Lecter person-gurneys, or carried there by ushers – he will be Augusta’s darling.The Masters would complete McIlroy’s major cycle. Though only 29, he’s been trying to tick this final box for years.
In golf, the choke can take 20 minutes. It’s like watching someone go ass-over-teakettle down an endless flight of stairs. It’s excruciating. Having looked on, no one ever forgets seeing it.Imagine living it. And then knowing there is only one way to erase the public’s visual data bank – by overwriting that memory with a win.
Garcia was cursed by it for an athletic lifetime. For the first few years, he sounded a lot like McIlroy does now. Eventually, he snapped. The impression he gave off wasn’t joy or elation. He had the look of a man who had finally laid down that burden McIlroy referenced. All of us have had that same experience, and know that it is a far more satisfying experience than mere success.
At a certain point – after the money becomes a haze of zeroes on a bank statement and you’ve climbed to the top of the sponsorship pole – great golfers have only one thing left to desire. And so, the suffering. Doesn’t matter what else you’ve won, or how much you’ve earned. You haven’t really made it until you’ve made it in Georgia in April.
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