Rory McIlroy wins 2025 Masters after sudden-death playoff with Justin Rose

After a topsy-turvy remaining spherical, Rory McIlroy held on to win the 89th Masters Match in a one-hole playoff Sunday, incomes his fifth main championship and his first since 2014.

The victory ends an 11-year main championship drought for the second-ranked golfer on the earth. McIlroy had not received one of many sport’s premier tournaments since 2014, when he took the U.S. Open.

Beforehand, McIlroy’s greatest end on the Masters was second in 2022. Along with a inexperienced jacket, McIlroy will take residence $4.2 million because the Masters winner.

Getting into the day with a two-shot lead over Bryson DeChambeau for first place, McIlroy one way or the other discovered himself neck and neck with Justin Rose after 15 holes.

Needing solely par on the 18th gap to win, McIlroy bogeyed to arrange the playoff in opposition to Rose. Taking part in the identical gap once more to find out a winner, McIlroy recorded a birdie whereas Rose shot for par.

It was practically an enormous come-from-behind victory for Rose, who shot a final-round 66, 9 strokes higher than he shot on Day 3. He completed his day tied with McIlroy for the lead at 11 below par regardless of having began seven strokes behind.

Justin Rose on the 18th inexperienced throughout the remaining spherical of the Masters.Petter Arvidson / Sipa USA by way of AP

McIlroy, who was 12 below par after three rounds, was solely 10 below after 14 holes. However he birdied each 15 and 17 to take again the lead. On the 18th, he nonetheless had an opportunity for par after a shot into the bunker, however he missed a comparatively brief putt.

The day acquired off to an inauspicious begin for McIlroy, who hit a double bogey on his first gap. After he hit three birdies between holes 3 and 10, his lead started to slide away, as holes 11-14 went bogey, par, double bogey and bogey.

The lull set the stage for the dramatic end, however McIlroy was in the end capable of keep away from a collapse just like the one on the 2011 Masters, when he began the ultimate spherical with a four-shot lead however shot an 80 on Day 4.