{"id":20001,"date":"2025-04-14T19:33:18","date_gmt":"2025-04-14T19:33:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/20001\/"},"modified":"2025-04-14T19:33:18","modified_gmt":"2025-04-14T19:33:18","slug":"scottie-scheffler-gesture-towards-rory-mcilroy-divides-fans-as-they-spot-what-he-did-after-masters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/20001\/","title":{"rendered":"Scottie Scheffler gesture towards Rory McIlroy divides fans as they spot what he did after Masters"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Masters fans called out Scottie Scheffler for what he did after presenting Rory McIlroy with the green jacket at Augusta National.<\/strong><\/p>\n

McIlroy won the 2025 Masters Tournament at Augusta in one of the most thrilling finishes to a sporting event, fending off Justin Rose in a sudden death play-off.<\/p>\n

The Northern Irishman entered the day with a two-shot lead but, despite briefly losing the advantage early on to Bryson DeChambeau after a double bogey, regained his composure and had a four-shot lead early in the back nine.<\/p>\n

But a weak shot into the water on 13 dropped him back towards the pack, and Rose – who had started the day seven shots behind – was on the charge.<\/p>\n

The Englishman carded a final round 66 to finish on 11-under-par, and was already in the clubhouse when McIlroy<\/a>, a shot ahead, needed par on the 18th for the green jacket.<\/p>\n

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But he agonisingly missed his par putt by a matter of inches, meaning a play-off hole under the most unimaginable of pressure.<\/p>\n

But it was second time lucky for McIlroy as he played a sensational approach with his second shot, before nailing his putt to win the Masters and the career grand slam.<\/p>\n

As per Augusta tradition<\/a>, he was then presented with the iconic green jacket by the previous winner, Scheffler, in a special ceremony inside the club.<\/p>\n

But after presenting him with the jacket, fans noticed that Scheffler didn’t shake McIlroy’s hand and quickly stood back in position.<\/p>\n

While it is worth noting that he did embrace him when presenting him with the jacket for a second time in front of spectators – and some fans opined that he was right to simply allow McIlroy to have his moment – others weren’t so sure.<\/p>\n

One wrote: “Thought it strange that Scheffler didn’t shake Rory’s hand.”<\/p>\n

Another agreed: “That was poor from Scheffler. Didn’t even shake his hand. Put the jacket on him and walked off.”<\/p>\n

A third asked: “What’s the story with Scottie? Not even a ‘well done’ and just melted away. Very awkward.”<\/p>\n

Scheffler finished fourth at Augusta with a score of eight-under-par, securing over $1,000,000 in prize money.<\/p>\n

The 28-year-old has won the Masters Tournament on two previous occasions, and has been a runner-up in both the PGA Championship and US Open.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Masters fans called out Scottie Scheffler for what he did after presenting Rory McIlroy with the green jacket…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":20002,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4106],"tags":[2826,7238,7640,4284,4287,4288,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-20001","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-golf","9":"tag-green-jacket","10":"tag-justin-rose","11":"tag-masters-tournament","12":"tag-rory-mcilroy","13":"tag-scottie-scheffler","14":"tag-sports","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114337992352996863","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20001","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20001"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20001\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}