Rory McIlroy’s major wins and Grand Slam glo...

From record-breaking victories to ending his lengthy await Grand Slam glory, we glance again in any respect of Rory McIlroy’s 5 main titles to this point…

2011 US Open

McIlroy had lots of eyes on him when in rivalry at Congressional Nation Membership, having famously suffered a final-round collapse when taking a four-shot lead into the ultimate spherical of The Masters earlier that yr.

Any chance of a repeat efficiency was quashed by McIlroy’s dominant show, the place he took management of the match by firing rounds of 65 and 66 to open the biggest 36-hole lead in US Open historical past.

McIlroy had already set the report for any participant to succeed in 10 underneath at a US Open on his solution to a six-stroke benefit, which he prolonged to eight strokes heading into the ultimate spherical.

There was to be no final-round wrestle this time for the then 22-year-old, who smashed Tiger Woods’ match scoring report by ending the week on 16 underneath. An eight-shot victory over Jason Day stays – as of 2025 – the biggest successful margin within the match’s historical past.

2012 PGA Championship

The hype heightened after one other record-breaking win at Kiawah Island, which helped him return to the highest of the world rankings.

McIlroy had adopted an opening-round 67 with a three-over 75 in windy circumstances on Friday to sit down three strokes of the midway lead, earlier than a five-under 67 throughout a weather-affected third spherical pulled him three forward.

The chasing pack’s hopes pale on the ultimate day when McIlroy birdied three of his first seven holes to increase his lead, earlier than three extra birdies during the last seven holes noticed him shut a shocking eight-shot victory.

The successful margin was the biggest within the match’s historical past – breaking Jack Nicklaus’ report – and noticed McIlroy change into the youngest participant to 2 main wins since Woods, with the win the second leg in his bid for Grand Slam glory.

2014 The Open

McIlroy has traditionally not all the time produced the quickest of begins at majors, though his bogey-free opening spherical at Royal Liverpool laid the foundations for a wire-to-wire victory.

One other 66 within the second spherical gave McIlroy, by now 25, a four-shot cushion heading into the weekend, and he added a third-round 68 – together with two eagles in his final three holes – to take a six-shot lead into the ultimate day.

Sergio Garcia charged up the leaderboard and briefly closed inside two of McIlroy, who had slipped again to degree par for the day with a bogey on the thirteenth, whereas Ricke Fowler additionally produced a late birdie end to remain in rivalry.

McIlroy shrugged off any potential final-round collapse and prolonged his lead with a birdie on the sixteenth, with a one-under 71 sufficient for a two-shot win over Garcia and Fowler and to safe the Claret Jug.

2014 PGA Championship

It was a summer season to recollect for McIlroy, who added a WGC-Bridgestone Invitational title to his win at The Open earlier than securing his fourth main success with a slender win at Valhalla Golf Membership.

McIlroy had regained the world No 1 spot the earlier week and took a one-shot lead into the ultimate spherical, following scores of 66 and 67 by birdieing three of the final 4 holes in a third-round 67.

A gradual begin to the ultimate day had left Phil Mickelson and Fowler forward of McIlroy, who began a back-nine fightback with a shocking eagle on the par-five tenth and a birdie on the par-four thirteenth.

McIlroy birdied the seventeenth to take a two-shot lead over Mickelson to the ultimate gap, the place a two-putt par – in close to darkness attributable to fading gentle – was sufficient to safe the Wanamaker Trophy for a second time.

2025 The Masters

It will take 11 years and lots of near-misses for McIlroy so as to add to his main tally, a rollercoaster closing spherical and dramatic play-off closing out victory at Augusta Nationwide.

McIlroy double-bogeyed the opening gap on Sunday to right away lose his two-shot 54-hole result in Bryson DeChambeau, then took management of the match earlier than dropping 4 pictures – together with a double-bogey on the par-five 13 – in a four-hole stretch.

A exceptional method shot within the bushes arrange a two-putt birdie for McIlroy on the fifteenth and one other birdie on the seventeenth gave him a one-shot buffer heading to the 72nd gap, the place he missed a five-foot putt for par and slipped right into a play-off towards Justin Rose.

McIlroy made amends within the play-off by organising a close-range birdie likelihood, which he transformed to spark emotional celebrations and make him simply the sixth participant to finish the boys’s profession Grand Slam.

Woods, Nicklaus, Ben Hogan, Gary Participant and Gene Sarazen are the others to have received all 4 majors of their careers, with McIlroy’s Masters victory fulfilling his childhood dream and cementing his place as certainly one of golf’s all-time greats.

What subsequent for McIlroy?

McIlroy’s Masters victory put him degree with Seve Ballesteros’ main tally and inside certainly one of Sir Nick Faldo’s report, with the win additionally making him the primary European participant to finish the profession Grand Slam.

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