Rory McIlroy — Cleaned out Masters Shop with 1,100 flag buys
ATLANTA – Rory McILroy did not leave Augusta National as Masters champion without a final purchase in the gift shop.
He said that there were 1,100 spindle flags left in the masters’ shop.
“And we took all 1100,” said McILroy before the Tour championship, the end of a PGA Tour season which was the most memorable to date because of a Sunday in April.
“It was a lot,” he said about the flags he signed. “But I’m never tired of signing them. I waited 17 years to sign this flag in the middle, and I will never complain about doing it.”
The players sign flags all the time for the fans, but the golf protocol is that only the masters champion signs his name in the US contour which is part of the most famous golf logo.
Mcilroy has been trying an exhilarating end of 17 years of victory at the green jacket for a little more than four months, making a bit on the first hole in the playoffs to beat Justin Rose and finish the big career.
He has not won since then, and sometimes he spoke of finding the motivation. But being the Masters champion does not age. He already plans a few trips to Augusta National, a luxury offered to the champion, including one with his father.
If something surprises it, it was the one -year property of the Green Masters jacket.
He almost never wears it.
McILroy said he had wore it all night until he sets around 3:30, then woke up and crossed sensations so many others. He saw the jacket draped on a chair, a reminder that everything was not a dream.
He brought it during a brief appearance at the association of Golf Writers’ Dinner during the British Open. Otherwise, the opportunities were rare.
“I am reluctant to wear it,” he said. “It is not as if I wore it a lot. I hung it in my wardrobe in a place where I can see it every day. I always thought if I had one – if I won the masters one day – I would never have the thing, and it was not like that. I did not wear it as much as I thought that I would do it.”
McILroy said he had planned trips with friends and some national members of Augusta with whom he has become a friend over the years. He would be forced to wear his green jacket to the club, which will probably not need to twist your arm.
“I have always said that some of my favorite moments in Augusta were when it was not the masters tournament,” he said, referring to the moments when he went there before the masters for the training rounds. “But it will be nice to go next time and get into the Champions locker room and put my green jacket and I have the impression of belonging.”
