Rory McIlroy Became the First Golfer to Achieve This Incredible Feat After Winning Scottish Open

McIlroy now has a trifecta of wins that no other golfer possesses.

Winning on the PGA Tour for 24th time is an unfathomably impressive feat on its own, but Rory McIlroy accomplished more than that on Sunday when he birdied the 72nd hole of the Genesis Scottish Open to take home the victory. 

McIlroy—who won on Sunday for the first time in Scotland and the second time in 2023—became the very first golfer to complete an incredible trifecta of National Open wins in his career. 

McIlroy now has victories at the Scottish Open, British Open and  Irish Open, something that no one else in the history of the professional game has done. 

Rory McIlroy finishes birdie-birdie, becomes the first player to win The Open, the Irish Open and Scottish Open. Now heads to Royal Liverpool, where he won in 2014, brimming with confidence and momentum.

— Jason Sobel (@JasonSobelGolf) July 16, 2023

McIlroy’s Irish Open victory came in May 2016, and he won the Open in 2014 at Royal Liverpool, where the championship will return next week. 

The Northern Irishman wasn’t aware that he had made history with the trio of tournament wins, but on the 18th green at the Renaissance Club, CBS’s Amanda Renner alerted him of the news and his reaction was of pure excitement. 

“This is right up there with the best of them.”@McIlroyRory on his clutch finish with birdies on 17 and 18 @ScottishOpen. pic.twitter.com/B6oOpDJImk

— PGA TOUR (@PGATOUR) July 16, 2023

“I didn’t know that,” McIlroy said. “That’s really cool, especially a player coming from this part of the world, where those three tournaments mean a lot to us. It’s another national open, and I’ve sort of been big on national opens over the years. I’m racking up a few of them. That’s a pretty cool accolade to have.”