It’s another major championship for Rory McIlroy.<\/p>\n
And it doesn’t get much bigger than the way he achieved it. McIlroy won the 2026 Masters Tournament<\/a>, making him just the fourth golfer<\/a> to ever repeat in the prestigious event.<\/p>\n Last year, he held off Justin Rose in a sudden-death battle. This time, he posted a 12-under score to edge Scottie Scheffler’s 11-under.<\/p>\n Here’s what to know about McIlroy’s history in winning major golf<\/a> championships:<\/p>\n What are the four major tournaments in golf?<\/p>\n The four majors in golf are the Masters Tournament, PGA Championship<\/a>, U.S. Open<\/a> and the Open Championship<\/a>.<\/p>\n How many major championships has Rory McIlroy won?<\/p>\n After turning pro in 2007, McIlroy has climbed his way up to six major championships following the 2026 Masters. He has a career grand slam, but no golfer has ever won all four in the same year. Here’s his breakdown in each major:<\/p>\n Masters: 2 (2025, 2026)<\/p>\n PGA Championship: 2 (2012, 2014)<\/p>\n U.S. Open: 1 (2011)<\/p>\n Open Championship: 1 (2014)<\/p>\n \n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tRory McIlroy became the sixth all-time Grand Slam winner and claimed his first green jacket after winning the 2025 Masters.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n Where does Rory McIlroy rank among all-time major wins?<\/p>\n With Jack Nicklaus’ 18 major championships leading the way, McIlroy currently is tied at 12th with his six. Lee Trevino, Nick Faldo and Phil Mickelson also have six. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It’s another major championship for Rory McIlroy. And it doesn’t get much bigger than the way he achieved…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":264705,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[32496,48,52,51,47,50,49,102822,43535],"class_list":["post-264704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-golf","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news","tag-masters-tournament","tag-pga"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264704","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=264704"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264704\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/264705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=264704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=264704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=264704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}