The PGA Tour officially closes the book on the 2025 Masters on Thursday at the RBC Heritage, but the reverberations of Rory McIlroy’s career-Grand-Slam-clinching victory continue to reverberate across the world.
Rory McIlroy’s breakthrough win at the 2025 Masters didn’t just etch his name into golfing immortality — it also delivered a $76,500 bonanza for Australian club golfers who took a punt on the Northern Irishman through an audacious tour company promotion.
Eight years of watching his childhood friend take proverbial punches as a caddie were pent up when Masters winner Rory McIlroy let it all out on Sunday in his winner’s press conference at Augusta National.
Jason Day may have earned a fifth top-10 result at the Masters but the perennial Augusta contender blasted himself for not capitalising on another year in the mix at the April major.
Shane Lowry wasn’t having it. He’d just come off the 18th hole having finished bogey-bogey, dropping from five back to seven back in a blink. He’d battled all day to post an under par round and get inside the top four on the leader board. Instantly spoiled.
The roars reverberated through the towering loblollies, awakening the echoes that define this course and tournament, capable of immortalising or condemning players for eternity, sending shivers through bone and memory.
Australian Golf Digest
