He will be 36 next month. He thinks he plays better now than 10 years ago. It looks true.

He has not won three games before May.

He won the Masters competition. He is the best player in the world.

He has a small room upstairs in the building. He has a green jacket there for his whole life. He can eat dinner with other people. This took 11 years to happen. He feels very happy.

He was very happy after he won the game. He felt joy and smiled a lot.

What will we talk about next year? McIlroy asked.

How about we meet next month?

He won all the big tennis tournaments. Now he wants to win them all in one year. The next tournaments are good for him.

Next month is a big golf game called the PGA Championship at Quail Hollow. McIlroy won there four times.

Last summer, someone asked a player a fun question. If the best player could choose where the big golf game was, where would it be? He quickly said Quail Hollow.

The U.S. Open is at Oakmont. It is a big golf course for players who hit the ball far. This is good for him. But last time he played there, his first game was bad because of rain. He left before the weekend.

Rory McIlroy plays golf in Northern Ireland. He wants to play well because he did not play well there before.

He feels free when he comes back, not stressed.

This is for the future, but it shows how people talk about McIlroy now. They talk about what he can do, not what he couldn't do.

He said it is hard when people ask about what you didn't win.

Brad Faxon, a friend of McIlroy, said McIlroy can win many big golf games.

Famous golfers Arnold Palmer and Jack Nicklaus said Tiger Woods could win 10 big golf games. They won 10 games together. Tiger Woods won 5 big games.

A man said McIlroy could be very good, like a famous player.

Nicklaus won 18 big golf games. McIlroy and Brooks Koepka won 5. Woods won 15, which is 10 more than McIlroy and Koepka.

It is easy to feel happy. This golf game is like other good games at Augusta. For example, Woods in 2019 and Nicklaus in 1986.

But this was not easy for Rory. He did not win a big golf competition for 11 years. Winning the Masters was his dream. But he only had two good chances to win before this day.

Other players were not happy, like Greg Norman and Tom Weiskopf. They had more problems.

McIlroy said he would have many Sundays like this to win a big golf game.

McIlroy is the sixth player to win the four big golf games. He is with Woods, Nicklaus, Gary Player, Ben Hogan, and Gene Sarazen.

Another player won at the Masters. His name was Sarazen. He won in 1935. At that time, it was not called the Masters. It was the Augusta National tournament. They started giving green jackets in 1949. The dinner for winners started in 1952.

This was a very special win for McIlroy.

It is a very big success. He is now with the most famous golfers. Some other great golfers are not there.

Sam Snead won 82 games in his career. This is a record. Phil Mickelson won many games, but not the U.S. Open.

Tom Watson won 39 golf games and eight big tournaments. Palmer was very important for golf today. But they did not win the PGA Championship.

He plays golf very well now.