The primary spherical of the Masters is within the books and its defending champion at present trails nobody.
Rory McIlroy is off to an excellent begin at Augusta Nationwide, though Sam Burns has equaled his efforts as the 2 share the lead following Thursday’s spherical. Sam has seemingly been in Masters mode for some time, by the way in which.
With all due respect to Mr. Burns the truth that Rory is tied for the lead, even whether it is after solely the primary spherical, is a reasonably large deal and the story of the Match up to now. McIlroy has spoken quite a bit about his general ideas on the Masters and the technique concerned in successful it since he did so a 12 months in the past, and he has shared that he all the time felt like getting off to a sizzling begin was crucial to success.
McIlroy received the Masters final 12 months, however he didn’t precisely cruise to victory or get off to the recent begin that he believes is significant.
Have you learnt the place Rory completed after the primary spherical when he went on to win the inexperienced jacket?
Rory McIlroy on the 2025 Masters
McIlroy was even par after 18 holes final 12 months so the truth that he’s at present 5-under and in entrance of all however one participant means that he has a really robust probability of repeating as winner. A lot simpler stated than completed, clearly.
Whereas Rory’s bookend rounds in 2025 have been hardly spectacular his Thursday spherical this 12 months carefully mirrored what he did on Friday and Saturday final 12 months. There might wind up being some regression to the imply right here, however in the end Rory is kind of actually sitting in pole place.
