It was into a quintessential Georgia afternoon that McIlroy emerged, fluffy white clouds easing across the sky and mint juleps cooling patrons on the clubhouse lawn. Cries of “Rory” rang about the first tee as he made his way from the practice green, all of it a familiar soundtrack to one of the most popular players in the game.
It is not only the hopes of the patrons he carries. The legendary figures who set the show in motion with the ceremonial tee-shots six hours earlier, Jack Nicklaus, Tom Watson and Gary Player, each offered McIlroy as their tip for glory. And it wasn’t only McIlroy’s swing that swung it for Player.
McIlroy with caddie and childhood friend, Harry Diamond (Photo: Reuters)
Watson read the result in the tea leaves. “I just have a gut feeling that Rory is the guy that’s going to win this week. That’s the bottom line.” It was left to Nicklaus to add a note of caution, notwithstanding the obvious affection he has for McIlroy.
“He got done with the round, and I didn’t open my mouth. And I said, well, I wouldn’t change a thing. That’s exactly the way I would try to play the golf course. The discipline to do that is what Rory has lacked in my opinion.
“But if you see his history the last few years, he gets to a place a lot of times where a seven or an eight pops up, and that keeps you from getting to where he needs to go.”
Water for Rory on the 15th! pic.twitter.com/vkARe0QFd8
So many of the moments before the announcer calls out your name are performative. McIlroy was studied in his refusal to engage with playing partner and Ryder Cup team-mate Ludvig Aberg when they left the range. He would eventually offer his hand on the tee, as is the custom, but the atmosphere was too tense for conviviality.
That miss fed into a poor tee shot at the par five second, finding the bunker on the right, blowing the birdie chance. A brilliant pitch at the third redressed the balance giving him a straightforward birdie. Perhaps that would settle him down. The chat with Nicklaus was all about being patient, missing in the right places and keeping bogeys off his card. In other words being Scheffler, who eased to a bogey-free 68.
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McIlroy laboured on, managing birdies at the eighth and ninth to reach the turn three under par. Another at the par five 13th took him alongside Scheffler on four under par. Suddenly the idea of McIlroy rising to claim his due began to harden into something more than hope.
From nowhere, it seemed, just as Nicklaus warned, a seven popped up and four under became two under.
Two more would go at the 17th to take him back to level par. What could and should have been a marker to herald a mighty weekend turned into another soul-wrenching round at the Masters.
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