Masters: Rory McIlroy’s win captured in a stunning drawing that took 600-plus hours

AUGUSTA, Ga. — For Rory McIlroy, winning the Masters was a journey 17 years in the making. And so when he finally won it a year ago, finally claiming the green jacket, he wanted to commemorate the win with something special.

Enter Keegan Hall.

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McIlroy commissioned Hall to draw a portrait of the scene on the 18th green, after his winning putt had dropped and McIlroy fell to his knees.

Hall spent more than six months on the project, working 6-7 days a week. He estimates he spent upwards of 600-800 hours on it and, well, the finished product — a 30×22-inch drawing — is remarkable.

“Typically up and working by 5am and try to get a solid 5 hours to uninterrupted work in,” Hall wrote on Reddit. “Then, I’ll take a break for exercise (I’ll either go play basketball, go for a 5+ mile run, hit golf ball in the sim,etc. Then lunch and back to work for 4+ hours and typically end the day will biz related work. But for a piece of this size and scale , I know it will take a long time to complete so my goal is to make progress every day, often 6-7 days a week.”

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For reference, here is the original picture:

Hall provided a time-lapse of the drawing:

According to Brad Faxon, McIlroy gifted the drawing to Augusta National, as well as several hundred copies for members of the club.

McIlroy will now set out to become just the fourth player to win back-to-back at Augusta. Only Jack Nicklaus, Nick Faldo and Tiger Woods have ever pulled that off.