One year after winning the pro-am portion of the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am, Rory McIlroy got his name on the portion of the wall of champions that he always wanted to at Pebble Beach Golf Links in Pebble Beach, California.

McIlroy shot a final-round 6-under 66 on Sunday to erase a one-stroke deficit and rolled to a two-stroke victory over Shane Lowry at his PGA Tour 2025 season debut.

"To win at one of the cathedrals of golf is really, really cool," McIlroy said.

On a breezy, sunny day, McIlroy was dialed in at the AT&T and earned his 27^th victory on the PGA Tour.

McIlroy birdied the second to tie 54-hole leader Sepp Straka. It was a bunched leaderboard with as many as four co-leaders on the front nine. McIlroy moved ahead with a left-to-right bending birdie putt at the famed par-3 seventh but gave the stroke back with a bogey at the difficult eighth. It seemed as if it might be McIlroy’s day when his 7-iron kicked out of the rough and on to the green at the equally treacherous ninth.

“He just got the break of the day,” CBS’s lead analyst Trevor Immelman said.

McIlroy took advantage with an 18-foot birdie at No. 10 and never relinquished the lead. He tacked on a 9-foot birdie at 12, another left to right putt that dripped into the center of the cup to stretch his lead to two. He clenched his fist when his 26-foot eagle putt at 14 fell to extend his lead to four strokes.

“When he’s on he’s pretty tough to beat,” CBS’s Ian Baker-Finch said.

McIlroy, 35, is coming off a season in which he won twice on both the PGA Tour and DP World Tour but is best remembered for the ones that got away, especially at the U.S. Open. As his major drought has drifted to more than 10 years since he won the 2014 PGA Championship, McIlroy is making a point of being sharpest from April through July.

He opened with a bogey-free 66 at Spyglass Hills Golf Course, which included a hole-in-one. He grinded out a solid 2-under 70 on Friday despite four bogeys on the back nine when the wind was whipping and the temperature plummeted. But on a cold, rainy Saturday, McIlroy shot a brilliant bogey-free 65 to climb in to a tie for second and in the thick of the trophy hunt.

“One of the things I really want to do this year is try to limit my mistakes and play bogey free,” he said on Saturday. “Three of my last four rounds have been that way, last round in Dubai, first round here and now this round. Just really try to limit the mistakes and play smart golf and be a little more like Scottie Scheffler basically.”

He laid down the hammer on Sunday and took home a winner's check for $3.6 million in the signature event and 700 FedEx Cup points. When he was reminded on Tuesday of his victory a year ago with amateur partner Jeff Rhodes in the pro-am portion of the long-running Tour staple on the Monterey Peninsula, he said, “I got my name on the wall, just not the portion that I wanted.”

He took care of that on Sunday with his game once again in full flight, finishing with a 72-hole total of 21-under 267.

Ireland's Lowry made birdie at the last to shoot 68 and finish alone in second. Lucas Glover shot 67 to finish third and tied with England's Justin Rose, who holed an eagle from just off the green for 68. Russell Henley, who held the first-round lead, also shot 67 to tie for fifth with Cam Davis (69). World No. 1 Scottie Scheffler, making his season debut after requiring surgery from a freak accident to his right hand, closed in 67 and finished T-9. Sepp Straka, the 54-hole leader, shot 72 and finished T-6.

This article originally appeared on Golfweek: Rory McIlroy picked up his 27th PGA Tour title at Pebble Beach