One year wiser, why Rory is ready to master Augusta

We’ll hear it all week, hopefully in the ceremony in the log cabin afterwards too: he learned.

What we might not hear is exactly what Rory McIlroy learned from last year’s Masters meltdown. Because it wasn’t just one thing.

Following his US Open breakthrough, he would bit by bit detail just how blowing up in Augusta was the foundation for blowing up Congressional. But he never really put it altogether for us, at least off the course.