Rory McIlroy shoots 5-under 67 | Round 1 | THE PLAYERS | 2025

In the opening round of THE PLAYERS Championship 2025, Rory McIlroy carded a 5-under 67 to sit one stroke off the lead.


The PGA TOUR heads to Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida this week for the THE PLAYERS Championship at TPC Sawgrass. Defending champion and World No. 1 Scottie Scheffler returns to THE PLAYERS Stadium Course at TPC Sawgrass looking to extend his legacy and become the first golfer to three-peat at THE PLAYERS. World No. 2 Rory McIlroy is hoping to recreate some magic at in Ponte Vedra Beach, FL. McIlroy, winner of this year’s AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am, captured the THE PLAYERS in 2019, but has had a bit of a mixed bag at TPC Sawgrass since then. With over 75 yards added, THE PLAYERS will be decided over the 7,352 yards that THE PLAYERS Stadium Course at TPC Sawgrass has to offer. Alongside last week's Arnold Palmer Invitational winner Russell Henley, other notable players in the field include Xander Schauffele, Ludvig Åberg, Hideki Matsuyama, Justin Thomas and Rickie Fowler with a total of 48 of the world’s top 50 playing in this year's event.


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[mwade]

Rory’s second shot on 18 was ridiculous 👏👏

[ianwoollard]

Well done with his recovery shots and putting. Very entertaining golf to watch

[drowze_]

Just played this course in the new PGA tour game and hit a 69 and feeling proud of myself, then see Rory do even better IRL…😅

Hope he can get the FIR issues under control, lost scoring opportunities on tee shots into the rough come back to haunt you on Sunday! Go Rory!!!

[pengwill]

love to see Rory playing, great game!

[SeanSoundDesign]

Man, the Rory haters are just sad at this point. Hes one back and played a great round, people want to see that.

[TheRealBruceLouis]

Tiger Woods 67s sometimes would look exactly like this, almost never seeing the fairway, but somehow still hitting in the 60s. Incredible round from Rory.

[armandovasquezjr.]

Rory had great saves and great putts. Awesome round!!

[D.JENKINX]

Pushing off the tee, confident from the rough, making good putts, smiling...golf needs this Rory.

[mgunner]

Rory is all class. His scrambling was next level

[daledale]

Let's go, Rory! Let's keep up the good form until Augusta

[MattyMacneil]

Jesus he was a lumberjack all day and some how recovered amazing

[iancamone]

rmc playing some of the best most consistent golf of all time

[braydenboyko]

Rory’s speed is unmatched for how easy he makes it looks, getting to 190 basically is elite

[stephenbeach]

Rory channeling his inner Seve...now that's proper golf ⛳

[grahamsampson]

Great to hear Gary Koch back in the booth. True professional.

[bannnnner]

6:26 was such a good shot. Predicting the run coming out that pine straw is insanely difficult wow

[braydenboyko]

Rory hit it almost exactly where George Bryan did on 10 off the tee

[GarthDownton]

I never seen Rory, in the trees all the time!!

[braydenboyko]

The commentators are just talking … Rory hits it over a tree in front of him and can’t carry it near the hole on the short par 4 and ends up with only like 10 feet and they said it was alright after they just said he can’t go past the flag or land it near it … then he hits that 10/10 shot running it up on 18 and the announcer says it’ll be just fine as if he mishit it but it’ll be safe … that’s gonna be one of the best shots in the tournament …. He also have his left arm bent until after he hits the ball on those punch shots

[brettknight]

Very scrappy round but it worked well done