Rory McIlroy got his 2025 season off to the perfect start. McIlroy ran away with the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am on Sunday afternoon to pick up his first win of the season. He posted a 6-under 66 in what was his first start of the new PGA Tour season, which dropped him to 21-under on the week in central California.
The win marked the 27th of McIlroy’s career, and his first since last year’s Wells Fargo Championship. He entered this week ranked No. 3 in the world.
It's now his eighth straight season with a win, which is the longest active streak on Tour. McIlroy entered the year after what was a pretty tumultuous campaign last season. While he won twice and was seemingly constantly in contention — and he won the DP World Tour Championship — McIlroy finished in second at the U.
S. Open in brutal fashion for a second-straight summer and then missed the cut at the British Open, which extended his major championship drought to a full decade. That missed cut was his only one of the season.
But after taking some time off, and getting the new TGL league with Tiger Woods started in Florida, McIlroy finally made his season debut this week after his T4 finish at the DP World Tour’s Hero Dubai Desert Classic last month. He didn’t waste any time, either. McIlroy dunked a hole-in-one for just the second time of his Tour career at Spyglass Hill on Thursday to set the tone immediately.
After starting the weekend at T13, McIlroy played his way into the final group on Sunday with a 7-u.