For the first time since Rory McIlroy started coming to the tournament 20 years ago, a Hero Dubai Desert Classic ritual has ended.
Admittedly, when the Northern Irishman first turned up as a 16-year-old amateur in 2006, talk about him one day winning The Masters was not quite as fevered as it would one day become.
Only an exclusive group of golfing anoraks were in the know about quite how high the visiting prodigy’s ceiling was.
Then he started hoovering up pro titles, the very first of which was the Desert Classic itself three years later.
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