Rory McIlroy completed the career Grand Slam at the 2025 Masters, surviving a playoff with Justin Rose to put on the green jacket that had eluded him for eleven years. It capped one of the most dramatic redemption arcs in modern golf and pushed his major tally to five.
The Northern Irishman first announced himself as a generational talent with a record-setting 2011 U.S. Open at Congressional, and added the 2012, 2014 PGA Championships and the 2014 Open Championship before turning twenty-six. The intervening decade was a study in major near-misses — runner-ups, Sunday collapses, recoveries that fell a shot short — until Augusta finally tipped.
McIlroy married Erica Stoll, a former PGA of America employee he met at the 2012 Ryder Cup, in 2017 at Ashford Castle. Their daughter Poppy was born in 2020. He divides his time between Jupiter, Florida and a renovated farmhouse outside Holywood, returning home for the DP World Tour swing each autumn.
Career Earnings Trajectory
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World Ranking Trajectory
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What's in the bag
- Driver
- TaylorMade Qi35
- Irons
- TaylorMade Rors Proto
- Putter
- TaylorMade Spider Tour X
- Ball
- TaylorMade TP5x
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