Rory McIlroy has won the Masters in a dramatic play-off against Justin Rose. See how the action unfolded during the final round at Augusta.
Rory McIlroy has won the Masters in a dramatic play-off against Justin Rose. See how the action unfolded during the final round at Augusta.
Updated 8.56am AEST
T1 🇬🇧 Justin Rose −11 (thru 18)
T1 🇮🇪 Rory McIlroy −11 (thru 18)
3rd 🇺🇸 Patrick Reed −9 (thru 18)
4th 🇺🇸 Scottie Scheffler −8 (thru 18)
T5 🇰🇷 Sungjae Im −7 (thru 18)
T5 🇺🇸 Bryson DeChambeau −7 (thru 18)
7th 🇸🇪 Ludvig Åberg −6 (thru 18)
T8 🇺🇸 Zach Johnson −5 (thru 18)
T8 🇨🇦 Corey Conners −5 (thru 18)
T8 🇦🇺 Jason Day −5 (thru 18)
T8 🇺🇸 Xander Schauffele −5 (thru 18)
T12 🇺🇸 Harris English −4 (thru 18)
T12 🇺🇸 Max Homa −4 (thru 18)
49th Min Woo Lee +6 (thru 18)
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Rory McIlroy becomes the sixth golfer to pull off a career grand slam.
Here are the others to do it.
CAREER GOLF GRAND SLAMS
- Gene Sarazen – US Open (1922), PGA Championship (1922), The Open Championship (1932), Masters (1935).
- Ben Hogan – PGA Championship (1946), US Open (1948), Masters (1951), The Open Championship (1953).
- Gary Player – The Open Championship (1959), Masters (1961), PGA Championship (1962), US Open (1965).
- Jack Nicklaus – US Open (1962), Masters (1963), PGA Championship (1963), The Open Championship (1966).
- Tiger Woods – Masters (1997), PGA Championship (1999), US Open (2000), Open Championship (2000)
- Rory McIlroy – US Open (2011), PGA Championship (2012), The Open Championship (2014), Masters (2025)
Rory McIlroy is in the famous Butler Cabin at Augusta National Golf Club.
Here’s what he had to say about today’s brilliant win.
“It feels incredible. This is my 17th time here and I started to wonder if it would ever be my time.
“The last 10 years coming here with the burden of the grand slam on my shoulders and trying to achieve that … I’m sort of wondering what we’re all going to talk about going into next year’s Masters [laughs]. I’m just absolutely honoured and thrilled and just so proud to be able to call myself a Masters champion.
“When I hit the wedge shot into the creek on 13, I thought I did a really good job bouncing back from that and also the double bogey on the first.
“I was really nervous going out. It was almost as if the double bogey at the first calm my nerves a little bit and got me into it in a funny way.
“[On the play-off hole] I just needed to make a good, committed swing and I made one at the right time.
“It was 14 years in the making from going out with a four-shot lead in 2011 and feeling like I could have got it done there. There was a lot of pent up emotion that just came out on that 18th green.
“A moment like that makes all the years and all the close calls worth it.”
Let’s take a walk down memory lane and look at McIlroy’s performances at Augusta.
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2009: Tied 20th – R1: 72, R2: 73, R3: 71, R4: 70 | Total: 286
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2010: Missed cut – R1: 74, R2: 77 | Total: 151
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2011: Tied 15th – R1: 65, R2: 69, R3: 70, R4: 80 | Total: 284
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2012: Tied 40th – R1: 71, R2: 69, R3: 77, R4: 76 | Total: 293
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2013: Tied 25th – R1: 72, R2: 70, R3: 79, R4: 69 | Total: 290
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2014: Tied 8th – R1: 71, R2: 77, R3: 71, R4: 69 | Total: 288
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2015: 4th place – R1: 71, R2: 71, R3: 68, R4: 66 | Total: 276
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2016: Tied 10th – R1: 70, R2: 71, R3: 77, R4: 71 | Total: 289
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2017: Tied 7th – R1: 72, R2: 73, R3: 71, R4: 69 | Total: 285
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2018: Tied 5th – R1: 69, R2: 71, R3: 65, R4: 74 | Total: 279
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2019: Tied 21st – R1: 73, R2: 71, R3: 71, R4: 68 | Total: 283
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2020: Tied 5th – R1: 75, R2: 66, R3: 67, R4: 69 | Total: 277
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2021: Missed cut – R1: 76, R2: 74 | Total: 150
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2022: 2nd place – R1: 73, R2: 73, R3: 71, R4: 64 | Total: 281
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2023: Missed cut – R1: 72, R2: 77 | Total: 149
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2024: Tied 22nd – R1: 71, R2: 77, R3: 71, R4: 73 | Total: 292
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2025: Winner – R1: 72, R2: 66, R3: 66, R4: 73 | Total: 277
Rory McIlroy has defied another Masters meltdown to win in a playoff from Justin Rose and clinch golf’s career grand slam.
The Northern Irishman was four shots clear through 10 holes but, as he did 11 years ago, stumbled with five dropped shots as Rose surged to finish level.
A bogey on the last hole of regulation forced a sudden-death playoff and both men had birdie putts on the first extra hole.
Rose’s effort slid by, before McIlroy tapped in to clinch his maiden Masters title and first major in 11 years.
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We are witnessing one of the most emotional Masters celebrations in history.
Rory McIlroy is a blubbering mess. Pumps his fist, yelling out to the crowd. This means the world to him. He becomes the sixth player to complete a career grand slam.
“I’ve got to go and get a green jacket,” he says as he walks off the 18th green.
Add to the drama that McIlroy thought he’d completely bottled it. Still cannot get over that missed putt on 18th.
He showed enormous mental toughness to get back in the game and hit that superb approach shot on the first play-off hole.
He’s done it.
After more than a decade of near-misses and heartbreak at Augusta National, Rory McIlroy has finally completed golf’s career grand slam, winning the 2025 Masters in stunning fashion.
The Northern Irishman, who entered the final round with a two-shot lead, has held his nerve through a tense play-off hole to secure the green jacket that had long eluded him.
He made a disastrous double bogey at the par-five 13th – chipping his third shot into the water – but regathered his composure to make birdies on the all-important 15th and 17th holes.
He didn’t make it easy for himself, missing a putt on the 18th to win the Masters.
On the first play-off hole, Rose’s birdie putt missed right. McIlroy stepped up. A look at the cup. Made birdie with conviction. What a moment.
McIlroy drops to his knees in disbelief. He hugs his caddy.
Wild scenes at Augusta in one of the greatest finishes to the tournament we have seen.
Rose has the first approach shot on the par-four 18th from about 143 metres out.
It’s a beauty. Goes straight at the pin and stops about three metres from the hole. A lovely shot under pressure.
What you got, Rory?
Wow! Even better! An unbelievable iron shot that finishes inside Rose’s ball. About the same length putt as the one he missed on the 18th about 20 minutes ago. Maybe even less. How has he done that?
I can’t watch.
Justin Rose and Rory McIlroy cream their drives perfectly down the 18th fairway.
What would be going through McIlroy’s mind right now? If he can rebound and win the Masters from here, it would be an unbelievable yarn.
Justin Rose has been on the range for about the last half an hour hitting balls.
Keep in mind Rose began the day at -5. McIlroy was -12.
Here’s a breakdown of Rose’s efforts at the major tournaments.
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The Masters
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T2 – 2015 (behind Jordan Spieth)
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T2 – 2017 (lost in playoff to Sergio Garcia)
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T5 – 2007, 2021
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The Open Championship
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T2 – 2018 (behind Francesco Molinari)
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PGA Championship
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T3 – 2012
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U.S. Open
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Won in 2013
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T2 – 2015 (behind Jordan Spieth)
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