Rory McIlroy has done it again. A couple of months removed from the absurd bunker-busting chip-in on the 72nd hole of the Masters, McIlroy splashed in another at the Old Course on Saturday – this time for eagle and the outright lead (albeit briefly).
After months of scrapping for acceptance and validity, this was the heel-turn – the scripted moment when a guy fans already hated says screw it and becomes the villain they always wanted him to be.
Meet Andrew Ruthkowski. Ruthkowski is a regular bloke from Muskegon, Michigan who just so happens to have logged a very irregular round of golf this week.
Like every northern summer at Augusta National Golf Club, changes are afoot. Sometimes it’s mild tweaks. Sometimes it’s moderate adjustments. Never before have we seen carnage like this, however.
There’s no telling if Rahm’s 418 yarder will stand up as the PGA Championship’s biggest bomb at week’s end (the biggest threat to that title is Rahm himself)
The Masters is upon us once again, and with the return of the spring (not to mention full galleries) to the confines of Augusta National, it is time to drink and make merry here in our Aussie living rooms.
Australian Golf Digest
