Rory McIlroy overcame early stumbles and a late scare to win the Masters on Sunday, capturing his sixth main title to grow to be solely the fourth back-to-back champion at Augusta Nationwide.
The World No. 2 from Northern Eire made a double bogey on the fourth and a bogey on the sixth, however responded with 4 birdies within the subsequent seven holes and held on after woeful late tee photographs to win a second inexperienced jacket and a file prime prize of $4.5 million.
McIlroy grew to become the primary consecutive Masters champion since Tiger Woods, firing a closing spherical one-under-par 71 to complete on 12-under-par 276 and defeat top-ranked Scottie Scheffler by one stroke.
A yr after successful his first Masters to finish a profession Grand Slam and snap a 10-year main win drought, McIlroy pulled off a wire-to-wire triumph.
“I simply can’t imagine I waited 17 years to get one inexperienced jacket and you already know I get two in a row. It’s simply form of the way in which,” McIlroy stated.
“I believe all of my perseverance at this golf match through the years has actually began to repay.”
Augusta Nationwide chairman Fred Ridley positioned the inexperienced jacket on McIlroy, a task normally reserved for the prior yr’s Masters winner.
McIlroy seized a 36-hole Masters file six-stroke lead solely to play the weekend at degree par.
“It was a tricky weekend. I did the majority of my work on Thursday and Friday,” McIlroy stated. “However simply so, so completely satisfied to hold in there and get the job executed.”
McIlroy, third-from final in driving accuracy for the week, saved par at 15 from bushes however despatched his tee shot on the 18th over proper bushes to a spot close to the adjoining tenth fairway.
With a victory in danger, McIlroy curled a dramatic strategy across the pines and right into a greenside bunker, then blasted onto the inexperienced to 12 toes and two-putted for bogey to safe the triumph.
“It’s good to have that two-shot cushion as a substitute of the one like I had final yr,” stated McIlroy, who wanted a playoff to win in 2025.
McIlroy, 36, yelled with pleasure and lifted his arms into the air after the triumph and hugged daughter Poppy and spouse Erica after strolling off the 18th inexperienced the place she embraced his mother and father.
Scheffler, a four-time main winner in search of his third Masters victory in 5 seasons, was on 277 after capturing a 68 to finish a bogey-free weekend.
“Over the weekend I put up an excellent struggle, did a whole lot of great things with a view to give myself an opportunity and finally got here up a pair photographs brief,” Scheffler stated.
England’s Tyrrell Hatton and 45-year-old Justin Rose and People Russell Henley and Cameron Younger shared third on 278.
Rose, the 2013 US Open champion, settled for one more close to miss after three runner-up Masters finishes.
“I felt like there was a chance to do higher, so clearly that’s irritating for certain,” Rose stated.
Rose birdied 4 of the final 5 holes on the entrance 9 and led on 12-under however bogeys at 11 and 12 moved McIlroy into the result in keep.
McIlroy sank a seven-foot birdie putt on the par-three twelfth after a formidable tee shot, then added an 11-foot birdie putt on the par-five thirteenth to grab a three-stroke lead.
“I believe the tee shot on 12 after which the tee shot on 13, simply to offer me the choice to go for the inexperienced in two,” have been the day’s key photographs.
“I made a very good dedicated swing off the thirteenth tee, and that enabled me to go for the inexperienced in two and to make a birdie there, following the birdie on 12. That was huge,” he stated.
4 pars and the closing bogey adopted to supply the victory.
Revealed on Apr 13, 2026