Rory McIlroy names three remaining career goals and ‘main focus’ for 2025 season

Rory McIlroy has three achievements to tick off his bucket list before the end of his career as he revealed his ‘main focus’ for the new season.
McIlroy won four times across the PGA Tour and DP World Tour last year but endured another frustrating season when it came to the majors.
The World No.3 missed the cut at the Open at Royal Troon and suffered a heartbreaking final-round collapse at the US Open to gift the tournament to Bryson DeChambeau.
Those results extended McIlroy’s winless run in the majors to over a decade, with his last triumph coming at the US PGA Championship back in 2014.
After a post-season break, the Northern Irishman returned with a T4 finish at the Dubai Desert Classic and is now set to make his PGA Tour return at this week’s Pebble Beach Pro-Am.
And looking ahead to the new season, McIlroy admitted that ending his elusive major drought is his main target for the next twelve months.
‘Winning the Masters, winning an Olympic medal and another away Ryder Cup, they are my three goals for the rest of my career,’ McIlroy told BBC Sport.


‘I’ve realised that all I can control is myself. What’s right for me right now is to fully focus on myself and to get the best out of myself and get back to winning the biggest tournaments in the world.
‘I’ve been agonisingly close for the past few years, without being able to get it done and that is the main focus of this year.’
To that end, 2025 offers an enticing opportunity for McIlroy to finally claim another major scalp.
This year’s US PGA Championship will be hosted at Quail Hollow, a course on which he has won four times, while the Open is set to return to Portrush in his native Northern Ireland.

The Masters is the only major left for McIlroy to complete a career Grand Slam, with the 35-year-old adopting a slimmed-down schedule to ensure he peaks for the challenge of Augusta National.
‘All of my practice, all of my prep, even the tournaments that I’m playing, it’s all geared towards being ready for those four events,’ McIlroy added.
‘Augusta is Augusta. I’ve gone through my stats and there are a couple of things that were pointed out to me that I could definitely get better at – certain little shots around the greens.’
After the majors, McIlroy will then turn his attention to the Ryder Cup, with Europe keen to retain the trophy they won in dominant fashion two years ago in Rome.
‘You have heard me say this so many times, but one of the greatest achievements in the game right now is to win an away Ryder Cup and we have an opportunity to do that this year,’ he said.
‘I think there’s one thing holding serve at home, which we’ve been able to do quite consistently. It’s a huge task [away from home].
‘It’s a very strong American team, a very partisan crowd. But we’ve got a wonderful captain and we’re going to have a wonderful team and we’re relishing the challenge.’
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