Author: OLIVER HOLT

Source link It was not simply staring down Bryson DeChambeau that made Rory McIlroy’s triumph at The Masters on Sunday evening one of the greatest and most courageous victories in the history of golf. That duel almost seems like an afterthought now in the happy afterglow of the most thrilling edition of this tournament there has ever been.It was not simply that McIlroy recovered from a terrible start, so nervous he could barely grip the club, so nervous that he double-bogeyed the first hole, so nervous that he saw his two-shot lead curdle into a one-shot deficit by the time…

Source link Other moments of glory, other moments of genius in full bloom, other moments that capture a mix of destiny and history and the sheer, breathtaking drama and wonder of sport, keep playing through my mind.I will never forget being at Donington Park in the April of 1993, new to reporting on Formula One, and seeing Ayrton Senna scything through the field at the European Grand Prix in the rain and in an inferior McLaren in a lap from the Gods.Being on Centre Court at Wimbledon in the July of 2013 is seared into my brain, too, seeing Andy…