You can say plenty about Norman - and McIlroy certainly has - but his reaction after his infamous Masters meltdown stands in contrast to the Northern Irishman.
In the annals of gut-wrenching final rounds at majors, little compares to the horror of Greg Norman’s closing 78 at the 1996 Masters, which condemned him to a five-shot loss to Nick Faldo in a tournament he had led by six. And yet amid all the grisly, gripping theatre of that day – the two detours to Rae’s Creek, the defining image of the Australian on his back in despair on the 15th green – one detail sometimes overlooked was his grace in defeat.
For a figure perceived both before and since as irredeemably brash, it was a beautiful capturing of what it meant to let the most coveted prize slip away. It conveyed an admirable sense of perspective, too, a reminder that beyond the narrative of one man’s world caving in, he could console himself the next morning with his yachts, his fortune and his health.
There was no cursory remark to the media, no runner’s-up appearance at the trophy ceremony, and, most damningly, no word of congratulations to the champion, Bryson DeChambeau. No wonder the Californian was nonplussed by the snub. For in a game as bound by codes of honour as golf, McIlroy’s exit was unforgivably petulant, even if he did belatedly take to X to congratulate the American.
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