Rory McIlroy can do the impossible in 2025 and become the second person ever to win all four major championships in a calendar year.
McIlroy won the 2025 Masters in dramatic fashion to end his 11-year drought from major tournament wins.
The Northern Irishman’s victory earned him the career Grand Slam, becoming only the sixth player to accomplish this feat and the second in the last 59 years, along with his golfing hero, Tiger Woods.
Woods congratulated McIlroy on his Masters win, and was one of many to do so, but with three majors still to come in 2025, people have begun to speculate on his potential future successes.
The pressure of winning at Augusta has weighed heavily on McIlroy in recent years. Now that burden has been lifted, he can do something last achieved in 1930 by Bobby Jones.
Jones achieved this feat before the Masters became one of the four major championships, therefore, McIlroy has the opportunity to become the only golfer in history to win all four major championships in a single season, including the Masters. He couldn’t, could he?
The upcoming 2025 Golf Majors
Now that the 2025 Masters is in the history books and the Green Jacket safely secured on McIlroy’s shoulders, we have three more major tournaments ahead of us in 2025.
PGA Championship
Dates: May 15-18
Location: Quail Hollow Club, Charlotte, North Carolina, USA
U.S. Open
Dates: June 12-15, 2025
Location: Oakmont Country Club, Oakmont, Pennsylvania, USA
The Open Championship
Dates: July 17-20, 2025
Location: Royal Portrush Golf Club, Portrush, Northern Ireland
McIlroy’s esteemed history at PGA Championship course
McIlroy should be considered a strong favourite at the upcoming PGA Championship, having had storied success at Quail Hollow. He took his maiden PGA Tour victory at the 2010 Quail Hollow Championship – one of four victories at the North Carolina club, the most recent in 2024.
Rewarding his long driving, Quail Hollow is ideally suited to the 2025 Masters champion, putting him in good stead to win his second straight major.
The U.S. Open, played at Oakmont Country Club, will present more of a challenge. McIlroy missed the cut at +8 the last time the competition was played at this course.
However, now having overcome his “bogey course” in Augusta, where he had a series of struggles in the past, it is well within reason that the world number two can triumph at Oakmont.
The final major of the year will be a date with destiny. Should McIlroy win both the PGA Championship and U.S. Open, he will have the opportunity to win the calendar slam on home soil.
The 2025 Open Championship will be hosted at Royal Portrush Golf Club in Northern Ireland – a place where McIlroy has deep roots. He first played there aged 10 and set the course record at just 16 years old, shooting an incredible 61.
Unfortunately, his last major visit to the course presented disappointment for McIlroy. He heartbreakingly missed the cut when the Open Championship was hosted at Portrush in 2019.
But there would be no better place for the home town hero to complete the second-ever calendar slam.
Dame Laura Davies backs McIlroy for PGA Championship success
In the aftermath of McIlroy’s Masters win, experts weighed in on the potential of future major successes.
Dame Laura Davies, speaking on the Sky Sports Golf podcast, said she has no reservations that McIlroy will win his second-straight major at the PGA Championship in May.
“He will win. I absolutely have no question about it.
“He loves the golf course. He has no fears now because he doesn’t have to think about ‘I’m never going to get the green jacket’ because he’s got it. Everything else from this point onwards is easy.”
Davies said that McIlroy could win five or six majors in the coming years, however, the four-time LPGA major winner did put the coolers on the possibility of the calendar slam.
“I said he’ll never play under that much pressure again that he did yesterday but if he actually did that [win the first three majors of the year], I don’t know about whether he’s going to have that chance, but then the pressure’s back to the level it was this week.
“We’re talking about a Grand Slam in a year and I don’t think it’s going to happen. The next one’s definite. I’m not even going to argue about that but I just think if it did happen then the pressure is at that same level as we had yesterday.”
But as McIlroy told Sky Sports, “you can’t win all four majors in a year if you haven’t won the first one”, and his 2025 Masters Green Jacket will hang forever in history.
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