Full coverage: Rory McIlroy

The façade of a champion shutting themselves off from the world doesn’t apply to the Masters’ winner. Like other greats in sporting history, victory came to him when he played on emotion.

Rory McIlroy deserves praise for his intelligence and ambivalence in a world too often governed by egregious certainty.

Fionn Davenport takes a journey round the golf tournament that means more than all the others and why so many- including a Holocaust survivor - believed it represented everything that is democratic about sport.