Update – 04/16/25, 10.50 am HE: Rory McILroyThe sports psychologist explained why the golfer refused to speak to BRYSON DECHAMBEAU During their last round together at 2025 Masters.
“It had nothing to do with Bryson,” said Bob Rotella BBC Tuesday April 15. “It was just the match plan all week, and we wanted to get lost in it.”
He added: “We did not want to pay attention to what someone else scored, drew or swung or how far they touched him. We just wanted Rory to play his game.”
McILroy, 35, won the 2025 masters tournament in a sudden death elimination Justin Rose. Dechambeau, 31, finished tied for 5th.
“The fact is that if you think you are going to win, just play your game and assume that if you do it near how you are capable, you will end up with N ° 1,” said Rotella.
Original story below:
Rory McILroy had his eye on the price at 2025 Masters – and consequently did not have time to speak with BRYSON DECHAMBEAU.
“”[He] I hadn’t talked to myself once all day, ” said Dechambeau, 31, Sunday April 13, of McILroy.
When asked if he had tried to “Initiate the conversation” With McILroy, 35, Dechambeau replied by Golf.com“He wouldn’t speak to me. … [McIlroy] It was just like – being focused, I guess. It’s not me, however.
Dechambeau said he “wanted to cry” for McILroy after the Irish Golfer hit his third blow in Rae’s Creek On emblematic green In Augusta, in Georgia.
“As a professional, you just know how to hit him in the middle of the green, and I cannot believe that he went there, or I must simply evolve it,” he said, by The New York Post. “I also struck bad plans in my career, and it happens. When you try to win a major championship, especially here, Sunday from Augusta, the Masters, you just have to do it and do the work and do things.” There were times when it seemed to have total control and sometimes when it happens “what’s going on?” “”
McILroy was finally victorious, winning the masters on Sunday after a sudden death elimination against Justin Rose. Leaving green, McILroy gave Justin’s wife, Kate RoseA hug that lasted 13 seconds. As they kissed, Kate could be heard telling McILroy that she was “really happy” for him after his victory. (Kate and Justin, 44 – who made the knot in 2006 – his son Leo, 16, and his daughter Charlotte, 13.)

McILroy then celebrated his victory with his wife Erica Stoll And Their 4 year old daughterPoppy. (McILroy and Stoll, 37 US WeeklyMcILroy called their “irreparably broken” marriage. A month later, McILroy rejected the file.)
After winning his first Masters title on Sunday, McILroy spoke that it was “the best day” in his golf life.
“It’s my 17th time here, and I [had] I started wondering if it would never be my time, “McILroy told journalists.” What came out of me on the last green there was at least 11 years, if not 14 years, of repressed emotion. I did the job.