I was looking for him on the TV pictures from Augusta last weekend, whenever there were galleries around Rory McIlroy – but especially as the back-to-back Masters champion was walking through the adoring patrons on Sunday to sign his card and make the victory official. Where was his Boswell, the man who would have been stalking him all week, or at least trying to? Where was Paul Kimmage? Alas, there was no sign of the Sunday Independent reporter, or none that I could see anyway. But better than any other journalist, he has chronicled McIlroy’s extraordinary career and given us…

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