Rory McIlroy said Tuesday that Brooks Koepka being back on the PGA Tour after a three-year absence is “a big deal.” As for the impending return of Patrick Reed perhaps later this year, well, his enthusiasm seems considerably more muted.
Northern Ireland’s Rory McIlroy earned his 27th career PGA Tour victory with a two-shot triumph over Shane Lowry at the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am, which was the second signature event of the 2025 season. The three-time FedExCup champion shares his thoughts from Pebble Beach after his latest win.
Prepping for the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am, McIlroy casually hit a few of the 2024 version of TaylorMade’s TP5 ball around the green and began to notice a distinct difference in feel as the ball came off the face of his wedge.
The Northern Irishman says he used multiple simulators in preparation to ‘test’ the accuracy of the SoFi Center’s sim, while also offering a valid theory behind the artificial green complex’s bunker sand.
A win is a win. It doesn’t matter if it’s 54 holes, Wyndham Clark is your new AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am victor. That comes with 700 FedEx Cup points, $US3.6 million and (apparently) an ice cream treat that’ll make LIV golfers second-guess their decision.
Clark, who ranked first in strokes gained/putting for the week, picked up more than six shots on the field on the greens in his first competitive outing with the Odyssey Ai One Jailbird Cruiser mallet.
Word among the golf cognoscenti was that LIV’s financial proposal fell short of the ballpark Clark’s team had in mind and that LIV baulked at Clark’s counter-offer.
The 49-year-old Australian has sneakily become one of the best follows on Golf Twitter while keeping his golf game pretty sharp as he approaches the senior tour.
Aaron Rodgers teamed with his PGA Tour player partner Ben Silverman to win the pro-am portion of the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am at 26 under par with these TaylorMade clubs: