Rory McIlroy's first Masters win belonged to the world. This one belonged to the McIlroys

AUGUSTA, Ga. — Every parent is blessed or cursed with seeing themselves in their child. So what must Rosie and Gerry McIlroy have been thinking one year ago? There was young Rory, their only child, the prodigy raised with all varieties of Irish individualism and idiosyncrasies, and all imaginable portions of potential and possibility, finally unloading the burden that had come to define his entire adult life.Advertisement