Scott Michaux

2 days ago | irishexaminer.com | Scott Michaux

The golf world arrived at Quail Hollow Club this week for the PGA Championship, seemingly ready to turn the page on Rory McIlroy’s epic completion of the career Grand Slam last month in the season’s first major. But the Masters hangover still lingers heavy in the air just a month removed and two hours up the road from Augusta, Georgia.

1 month ago | globalgolfpost.com | Scott Michaux

AUGUSTA, GEORGIA | Masters history is filled with great duels and charges and collapses. With leaders making heroic shots ingrained in our collective memories and calamitous mistakes you can’t unsee. With moments that make you shout in wonder and cry out in anguish. With roars and groans. In an historic 89th Masters Tournament, we had the rarest pleasure of all – seeing all of those things delivered by the same man on the same Sunday.

1 month ago | irishexaminer.com | Scott Michaux

Forget 2011. Forget the 11-year major drought. Forget the four-shot lead he lost in a flash on the second nine Sunday. Forget to bogey he made fall into a playoff. Forget any and all of the heartbreak and cardiac arrests that Rory McIlroy has endured and inflicted in the quest for greatness.

1 month ago | irishexaminer.com | Scott Michaux

For players packing up and leaving Augusta National, thoughts for most turn to a signature event this week at Harbour Town or the next major chance in May at Quail Hollow. For some, it’s already time to start looking ahead to the Ryder Cup in September. American Justin Thomas left the Masters with a desultory finish outside the top 30, but he was already talking about Bethpage Black and the U.S. chance to win back the Ryder Cup on home soil.

1 month ago | irishexaminer.com | Scott Michaux

One of the greatest things about the Masters is it’s the only major played at the same venue every year, creating a continuous thread that builds a tapestry the golf world comes to know by heart. That familiarity can also be a curse, as Rory McIlroy can attest. Like so many tragic Augusta figures before him, McIlroy has long stood out like a blister on Augusta’s quilt.