Box-office Rory McIlroy reckons 2025 may go down as the best year of his career after grabbing a storybook win at the Amgen Irish Open. ‌

The home hero says he won’t ever forget the moment he repeated his K Club triumph of 2016 in epic fashion in front of a jubilant County Kildare crowd. ‌

McIlroy produced a staggering 72nd hole eagle with a lengthy must-make putt that sent the galleries wild to force a sudden-death play-off with Swede Joakim Lagergren after the pair carded Sunday 66s. ‌

The career Grand Slam king then went toe-to-toe with the Scandinavian before finally seeing him off on the third play-off hole of the shootout to win his home Open for the second time.

McIlroy’s win was his 20th on the DP World Tour and added to his stunning and historic win of The Masters as

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