Rory McIlroy will have the chance to tell his Masters story once and for all — and he’ll have a national audience to share it with.
On Wednesday morning, Amazon Prime announced Rory McIlroy: The Masters Wait, a brand-new documentary film project that will be released on March 30, just days before McIlroy returns to Augusta National for the first time as champion.
While McIlroy’s media presence has spiked in the aftermath of his globe-stopping victory at Augusta National, the Grand Slam winner has yet to sit for the kind of tell-all interview typical for a sporting event of its significance. The Masters Wait appears to be McIlroy’s effort at accomplishing that goal, while also maintaining some level of editorial input through his production company, Firethorn, which is listed as a co-producer in the film’s press release.
A trailer released for the new project shows McIlroy’s career through the lens of the Masters, beginning with his infamous collapse in 2011 and continuing through to his eventual Grand Slam triumph in 2025. McIlroy is the only interviewee shown in the trailer, which also includes an impressive array of cinema-quality footage from his final round last April.
Amazon Prime received the distribution rights for the project, which will serve as original content for the streamer in addition to its brand-new broadcast deal with Augusta National. Prime will carry coverage of the Masters for the first time in 2026, adding two hours of early-week tournament TV coverage to the tournament’s current TV cornucopia and giving the Masters a full-fledged streaming partner for the first time in tournament history.
The new project is also being produced by “Everyone Else,” the production company responsible for the Oscar-winning 2011 documentary Undefeated, which followed the Manassas Tigers high school football team in Memphis. Drea Cooper, who has worked with Everyone Else on a series of documentary projects, has been tabbed as the project’s director.
Beyond the March 30 release date, the press release didn’t specify the release time or film length. You can watch the full teaser trailer for the movie below.
