section_path: Professional career/2025: Completion of career grand slam
section_name: 2025: Completion of career grand slam
paragraph_text: 2025: Completion of career grand slam
  
  In his first PGA Tour event of 2025, McIlroy won the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am, finishing with a score of −21, beating Shane Lowry by two strokes.
  
  At the 2025 Players Championship, McIlroy shot a final-round 68 to tie for first with J. J. Spaun and entered a three-hole aggregate playoff. McIlroy won the playoff with an aggregate score of +1 to claim his second Players Championship title.
  
  In April, at the 2025 Masters Tournament, McIlroy held a two-stroke lead after 54 holes, which was his first 54-hole outright lead at a major since the 2014 PGA Championship. He shot a 1-over 73 in the final round while Justin Rose birdied six of his final eight holes to force a playoff. McIlroy birdied the first playoff hole to win his first Masters and complete the career grand slam. He became the sixth player, after Gene Sarazen, Ben Hogan, Gary Player, Jack Nicklaus and Tiger Woods, to win each of the four major championships in the modern era.
  
  In his first PGA Tour event of 2025, McIlroy won the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am, finishing with a score of −21, beating Shane Lowry by two strokes.
  
  At the 2025 Players Championship, McIlroy shot a final-round 68 to tie for first with J. J. Spaun and entered a three-hole aggregate playoff. McIlroy won the playoff with an aggregate score of +1 to claim his second Players Championship title.
  
  In April, at the 2025 Masters Tournament, McIlroy held a two-stroke lead after 54 holes, which was his first 54-hole outright lead at a major since the 2014 PGA Championship. He shot a 1-over 73 in the final round while Justin Rose birdied six of his final eight holes to force a playoff. McIlroy birdied the first playoff hole to win his first Masters and complete the career grand slam. He became the sixth player, after Gene Sarazen, Ben Hogan, Gary Player, Jack Nicklaus and Tiger Woods, to win each of the four major championships in the modern era.