The best social moments of Masters Sunday | Rogers Report

AUGUSTA, Ga. — Hello, friends, and welcome to today’s edition of the Rogers Report, where we are emotionally exhausted after two weeks in Augusta and watching the final round of the Masters. I arrived to the course mid-morning, and the GOLF squad had our annual lunch in the clubhouse at Augusta National.

My go-to lunch this week was the Caprese pesto grilled cheese on sourdough (yum!), so I got that with a side of fries and an Azalea (my first of the week, I promise). From there, I watched Bryson DeChambeau and Rory McIlroy warm up on the range and then headed to the oak tree behind the clubhouse to watch them walk to the first tee.

The walk every player in contention makes from the clubhouse to the first tee is a fun one, because patrons outside the clubhouse create an open runway for the pros to walk through while members, media and guests of members crowd around and clap. The staff serving food in the clubhouse even pause to watch the leaders walk out, and it’s become one of my favorite Masters traditions to witness.

Once the leaders teed off, I headed back to the press building to work and watch the broadcast. There’s nothing quite like watching a dramatic round of golf in a room full of golf writers. Some people had figured out that the world feed was a few seconds ahead of the broadcast, so you’d hear a few premature reactions that hinted at the outcome of the shot you were about to see. And the room got quieter as the final group came down the stretch. Everyone was dialed in.

I think the best part of major championship Sundays (aside from the golf, of course) is the reaction on social media. Whether it’s memes, wholesome moments or unique observations, Twitter users brought their A games to the final round today. Let’s take a look, shall we?

The on-course videos

The best thing (or one of the best things) about social media is that it becomes a space to store our favorite golf moments, and today was no exception. Shout out to the Masters for posting every single shot from Rory McIlroy’s round in a 16 minute, 20 second video.

Next up we have McIlroy’s message to his daughter Poppy, which might be the sweetest thing of all time.

And while the following content isn’t of the 2025 Masters champion, it is of Caitlin Clark at the Masters, so it’s getting included in the best video content of the day.

To round up this segment, we’ve shot Shane Lowry greeting his pal Rory McIlroy in the greatest embrace ever. Everybody needs a friend like Lowry.

The interesting tidbit I never put together

I’ve watched the Masters for as long as I can remember and this was my third year attending the tournament with GOLF. However, I somehow never once noticed that the players in the field hit over patrons on No. 6.

I will never look at No. 6 the same again, and I’ll think of this fun fact every time I walk there on the course. Thanks to Will Knights for pointing it out.

Relatable tweets

If you watched the golf today, congratulations! You may be eligible for financial compensation due to the stress it put on your body. The internet did not disappoint with their live takes on the action, and I’ve included a handful of tweets for your own entertainment.

Golf Twitter might be crazy, but it also never misses.

The Holywood watch party

About 4,000 miles from Augusta National, members of Holywood Golf Club gathered to watch one of their own win the Masters.

It was an emotionally turbulent day at the course McIlroy grew up playing, but the celebrations that ensued after McIlroy’s win were well worth the stress of the day.

I have to imagine the party in Holywood is still going on as we speak, and I’m so excited for McIlroy’s parents, who watched from home in Northern Ireland.

Nike’s latest chills-inducing video

Nobody is better at making videos to hype up their players than Nike. And Sunday at the Masters was no exception. Let’s take a look at what they posted shortly after McIlroy’s win.

From the pimento cheese sandwich to the measuring tape, the video is somehow super telling and extremely specific at the same time. I also can’t help but wonder how long Nike has been sitting on that video for. Either way, I’m glad the world got to see it on Sunday evening.

Press conference moments

Rory received a round of applause from the media when he entered the interview room as a Masters champion for the first time. And before any of us could ask him a question, McIlroy took the liberty of asking us a question. After years of being asked about the Masters, McIlroy got the last laugh. And he handled it perfectly.

McIlroy’s presser was gold from start to finish, but the sweetest moment of it all came when Eamon Lynch asked about McIlroy’s caddie and longtime pal, Harry Diamond.

Normalize getting emotional over how much your loved ones mean to you!

Congratulatory posts

There’s nothing quite like opening social media and seeing celebrities flock to congratulate the golfers we know and love. I have to say that I was not expecing Adam Sandler, Ben Stiller and Matthew McConaughey to come out of the woodworks today. Who knew they were such Masters fans?

A handful of players chimed in to congratulate their colleague, including Justin Rose, who spoke to the media shortly after his playoff loss. Talk about a class act!

I can’t even begin to imagine how many text messages McIlroy has right about now. Between other players, family, friends, agents, caddies and others, he’s probably got a lot of people to get back to.

The group chats

And finally, I’ll leave you all with this. Just in case you thought you and your friends were the only ones going crazy in their group chat during the final round, I invited people to share screenshots of their text messages from today. You’ve got to click into each of the following posts to see the replies, but I promise you won’t regret it.

It’s just more proof that we all go a little crazy on Masters Sunday.