Author: Timothy M. Gay
Schedule
Sun Oct 05 2025 at 02:00 pm to 03:30 pm
UTC-04:00Location
Reston Regional Library | Reston, VA
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Join us on Sunday, October 5th at 2 p.m. at the Reston Regional Library for the presentation of Pulitzer-nominated author Timothy Gay's latest book RORY LAND. In RORY LAND’s original final chapter, written in the fall of 2024, Vienna, Virginia-based writer Timothy M. Gay predicted that the Masters would remain Rory McIlroy’s “Great White Whale” – the major championship that might forever elude him. It didn’t take long for Rory to prove Gay sadly mistaken. “I was never so happy to be so wrong in my life,” Gay told the UK’s Guardian newspaper.
McIlroy’s dramatic win at the 2025 Masters impelled Gay to write a new epilogue, which now appears in the UK/Ireland edition. “Practically the whole world became proud citizens of RORY LAND that Sunday,” Gay writes in his new finale, “although he drove us so .... crazy that, in mid-round, some of us contemplated extradition.”
The journey to achieving the career Grand Slam has not been an easy one for McIlroy. He’s become a lightning rod, getting into a profanity-laced smackdown at the ’23 Ryder Cup and, after his betrayal by PGA Tour brass, causing head-scratching confusion by going from an impassioned opponent of a deal with Saudi-backed LIV Golf to an outspoken proponent. McIlroy is from Northern Ireland, where politics and religion have been used as bloody cudgels for much of the past century. Both sides of his family were devastated by the North’s sectarian Troubles—ugly realities that McIlroy has been loath to acknowledge. Rory is, Gay believes, a man essentially without a country—someone who has, in effect, invented his own fiefdom, a place Gay calls “RORY LAND.”
Books for sale after the presentation.
For more information: https://bit.ly/Oct5_TimothyGay
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Where is it happening?
Reston Regional Library, 11925 Bowman Towne Dr,Reston, Virginia, United StatesEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
