Rory McIlroy hoping to go to Man Utd this season after message from boss Ruben Amorim
Rory McIlroy won the Masters at the weekend to complete the career grand slam and is hoping to celebrate by watching his beloved Manchester United at Old Trafford
New Masters champion Rory McIlroy is hoping to visit Old Trafford before the end of the season to show off his new trophy. McIlroy earned iconic status in golf last weekend after triumphing at Augusta, to complete the career Grand Slam.
The Northern Irishman is a huge Manchester United fan ,and has been spotted at lots of games in recent years. And now United boss Ruben Amorim has invited McIlroy to visit again – and show supporters what he won.
Amorim sent McIlroy a message of congratulations – and admitted he was desperate to meet the five time Major winner. Amorim said: “Congratulations for The Masters and I want to invite you to Old Trafford to show your trophy.
“You achieved something a lot of people thought would be impossible and we want that feeling in our stadium. I hope to see you soon at Old Trafford and to meet you.”
McIlroy went to Old Trafford back in 2014 with the Open trophy, having won the Claret Jug at Hoylake that year.
United have three home league games remaining this season, and it remains to be seen if his schedule allows him to make it to the ‘Theatre of Dreams’.
On completing the career grand slam, McIlroy said: “The names that are on that list, I mean excluding mine, but Jack, Tiger, Ben Hogan, Gary Player, Gene Sarazan… it is the who’s who of golf.
“To think that my name is alongside them and I’ve been able to join that club? Honestly, it is beyond my wildest dreams. It’s absolutely incredible and it probably won’t sink in for a while.
“It was most definitely worth the wait. I don’t think I realised how much that burden had built up year after year, coming back trying to complete the slam.
“All the narrative and the noise that comes along with that each and every Masters.
“Feeling you’re the centre of attention and feeling like people are saying ‘this is going to be your year, you’re going to get it done’, and every year that goes by it doesn’t happen…so all that pressure, it builds up and then I think just that release valve, it was just pure relief.
“There was some joy in there, but when that putt went in there in the playoff hole it was just pure relief and a culmination of emotion in that decade past that I’d probably kept in, so it was a pretty cool moment.”
