Rory McIlroy wins 2025 Masters, career Grand Slam
📸 Eric Taylor
14 years in the making. Rory McIlroy has come ohh so close to winning the Masters and for a while it looked like McIlroy was going to run away with the 2025 version.
Rory started out Thursday with a not so pretty 72 and after a 68 Friday absolutely tore it up Saturday.
Rory McIlroy wins 2025 AT&T Pebble Beach Classic
📸 Eric Taylor
Rory McIlroy finished what he started out in beautiful Monterey, CA. winning by 2 strokes over Shane Lowery and 3 clear of Justin Rose and Lucas Glover.
Sepp Straka enertered Sunday out front by a stroke but was even par the final round, no match for McIlroy's 6 under.
There were signs early the Rory was on top of his game. He got his tourney off with a bang with a hole in one at Spyglass Hill the opening round.
Shane Lowery picked Pebble Beach and its famous 7th hole to match Rory's hole in one with one of his own.
McIlroy started the first round off with a 66 one shot back of the lead. In fact he and second place Lowery were even the first three rounds but Shane finished with a 68 Sunday.
McIlroy really made his move Sunday out at 10 when he started a 6 hole span that saw him hole 3 birdies and an Eagle on the par 5 14th.
"It was nice to have the time to just stand there and look at one of the most beautiful holes in golf and enjoy it." said McIlroy after securing his 27th PGA win
"Enjoy that stroll up 18 and not feel too much pressure" said Rory. McIlroy became the first person to win as many as 27 tour victories since Phil Mickelson turned to trick back in 2005.
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Paul Broadhurst wins again at Pebble Beach
📸 Eric Taylor
Paul Broadhurst made it look easy over a three day weekend of golf that included courses at Spyglass Hill and Pebble Beach.
Up by as much as 6 strokes Sunday Paul cruised home for a 3 stroke win over a hard charging Alex Cejka who was -8 Sunday finishing -11 for the weekend.
Broadhurst was even par Sunday but started the final round up five strokes on the heels of carding a 64 at Pebble Beach Saturday.
Rocco Mediate, Vijay Singh and Doug Barron all tied for 3rd at -10 four strokes back of Broadhurst.
The Pure Insurance Championship partners with the First Tee of America featuring several top high school players from around the country.
Daniel Fegurson from The First Tee Dallas was partnered with Pro Justin Leonard, and Nicole Iniakov representing The First Tee Monterey was paired up with Pro Ernie Els won the trophies for the Jr Championships.
The 2024 Pure Insurance Championship
Scottie Scheffler Masters Agusta once again
📸 Eric Taylor
Scottie Scheffler ran away from the field over the last nine holes Sunday to win the Masters by four strokes over Ludwig Aberg of Sweden.
Fellow Americans Max Homa and Collin Morikawa finished at -4 for the tournament 7 back of Scheffler who won his second Green Jacket in three years.
Thongchai Jaidee wins at Pebble Beach
📸 Eric Taylor
Jaimee had to work overtime Sunday in the final round of the 2023 Pure Insurance Championship. Not one, not two but four extra holes were played before Thongchai came away with a one stroke win over Justin Leonard.
The Pure Insurance Championship impacting the FirstTee also hosted some of the best high golfers from around the country who played right along side the senior pros.
Being able to play at Pebble Beach in front of fans has got to be am experience of a life time.
Alyssa Stewart (girls) and Brayden Casolari (boys) won the amateur titles representing the First Tee.
Pro golf facing an uncertain future
📸 Eric Taylor
The PGA has changed their mind and signed on with the upstart LIV series. Or have they. The merger has not been finalized and no information has been given out about the deal.
What's next is anybodies guess. With the money the LIV is throwing around they must want some kind of influence on the tour.
In the wake of the deal players on the PGA Tour created a players only commission to make sure they are being represented in the tours business.
Tiger Woods has been put as the face of the players committee and the group knows the Woods will carry some weight when it comes to changes made on the PGA Tour.