“I started wondering whether that would be my time at all,” said McLeroi, who shot 73 years on the last day of Rose's connection at 11 under 11 years.
“The past ten years [I’ve been] Coming with the burden of the four major championships on my shoulder and trying to achieve this.
“I am very proud to be able to nominate the master's hero.
“It was very difficult. Not just winning the next specialty, but the Grand Slam profession.”
Mcilroy's hardships were an annual discussion point that entered the iconic championship that takes place every April and is the first companies of the year.
“What will we all talk about next year?” Mcilroy asked, with a cheerful smile on his face, the media after his victory.
“It is a dream that has become true. I dreamed at that moment as long as I could remember.
“Watch Tiger Woods in 1997, then win his first green jacket, and I think this inspired a lot of my generation to want to simulate what he did.”
The English veteran, who was also aimed at winning, fought, brave to force victory over the 66th round.
He had some kind words for his friend for a long time Mcilroy, before revealing what he said to the new master's hero in the eighteenth green.
“I just said, hear, this is a historic moment in the golf game, isn't it, someone who achieves the Grand Slam profession.”
“I said it was great to be able to share that moment with him.
“Obviously, I wanted to be the bad man, but still, it's an important occasion for the golf game.”
Ryder teammate in the Mcilroy Cup Shin Lori, “It is a huge for the Irish golf. It is a huge for everyone. I really passed a bad day but I am happy with it,” he told BBC Ni Sport.
“Maybe he didn't want to say this, but it was everything for him over the past ten years.”
Lori also commented on X, where Ireland's 2019 open champion wrote: “He always told me that he is retiring a happy man if he won the green jacket.”
England Tommy Fleetwood He said it was “Rorre McLeroi's way of doing this” and no one was “written a better text,” adding: “I cannot be happier for him. He is at the top of his game and has achieved something incredible.”
