Key takeaways
- Rory McIlroy has 30 PGA Tour wins. The 2026 Masters is number 30, tying Horton Smith for 16th on the all-time list.
- Six are majors. The 2011 U.S. Open, two PGA Championships, the 2014 Open, and back-to-back Masters in 2025 and 2026.
- Quail Hollow is the repeat venue. Four wins there, under two tournament names, sit beside three Tour Championships and two Players Championships.
- The forgettable five are real. Shanghai, a playoff BMW and the 2015 Match Play are the ones most likely to vanish from a fan’s recall.
- One of them already vanished for Rory. He told CBS he was unsure he had won in California, forgetting the 2015 Match Play at TPC Harding Park.
In February 2025, after a third-round 65 at Pebble Beach, Rory told CBS he wasn't sure he'd ever won in California. He had. TPC Harding Park, 2015, the WGC-Cadillac Match Play. He'd forgotten a World Golf Championship.
Rory McIlroy has 30 PGA Tour wins, from the 2010 Quail Hollow Championship to the 2026 Masters, tying Horton Smith for 16th on the Tour's all-time list. They include six major championships, three Tour Championships, three World Golf Championships, four wins at Quail Hollow and one team title, the 2024 Zurich Classic with Shane Lowry.
Whether he could reel off all 30 on camera isn't something I could verify from any clip I could open. What I can show you is the full list, sorted by how likely each one is to slip anyone's mind, and the honest answer is that about five of them would trip a serious fan.
Built on: Golf Channel's published list of McIlroy's 30 PGA Tour wins, the PGA Tour's own player profile, the U.S. Open's 2026 player bio, Sports Illustrated's coverage of the Pebble Beach win, and archived Al Jazeera and press reporting on individual victories.
The full list, in order
Thirty rows. Sixteen years. Cover the right-hand column and test yourself.
| No. | Year | Event |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2010 | Quail Hollow Championship |
| 2 | 2011 | U.S. Open |
| 3 | 2012 | Honda Classic |
| 4 | 2012 | PGA Championship |
| 5 | 2012 | Deutsche Bank Championship |
| 6 | 2012 | BMW Championship |
| 7 | 2014 | Open Championship |
| 8 | 2014 | WGC-Bridgestone Invitational |
| 9 | 2014 | PGA Championship |
| 10 | 2015 | WGC-Cadillac Match Play |
| 11 | 2015 | Wells Fargo Championship |
| 12 | 2016 | Deutsche Bank Championship |
| 13 | 2016 | Tour Championship |
| 14 | 2018 | Arnold Palmer Invitational |
| 15 | 2019 | The Players Championship |
| 16 | 2019 | RBC Canadian Open |
| 17 | 2019 | Tour Championship |
| 18 | 2019 | WGC-HSBC Champions |
| 19 | 2021 | Wells Fargo Championship |
| 20 | 2021 | CJ Cup |
| 21 | 2022 | RBC Canadian Open |
| 22 | 2022 | Tour Championship |
| 23 | 2022 | CJ Cup |
| 24 | 2023 | Genesis Scottish Open |
| 25 | 2024 | Zurich Classic of New Orleans (with Shane Lowry) |
| 26 | 2024 | Wells Fargo Championship |
| 27 | 2025 | AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am |
| 28 | 2025 | The Players Championship |
| 29 | 2025 | Masters Tournament |
| 30 | 2026 | Masters Tournament |
That's Golf Channel's published list, updated after the 2026 Masters. The PGA Tour's own profile confirms 30 wins and a tie for 16th all-time with Horton Smith.
The six nobody forgets
Majors, and he's got a matching pair of three of them.
The 2011 U.S. Open at Congressional came at 16-under 268, a championship record for 72 holes according to the USGA's player bio, which notes he set or tied 12 U.S. Open records that week. Then the 2012 and 2014 PGA Championships, the 2014 Open at Hoylake, and back-to-back Masters in 2025 and 2026.
The PGA Tour's profile notes the 2026 Masters made it six majors, tying Nick Faldo, Lee Trevino and Phil Mickelson for 12th all-time. He converted the largest 36-hole lead in Masters history, six strokes, into a one-shot win over Scottie Scheffler.
Six from 30. Twenty percent of his Tour wins are majors, and if he'd only won those six, he'd still be on any serious list of the era's best.
The ones that come in bunches
Quail Hollow. Four times, under two different tournament names.
He won there in 2010 as the Quail Hollow Championship, then the Wells Fargo Championship in 2015, 2021 and 2024. Al Jazeera's 2015 report has him winning by seven at 21-under 267, a tournament record by five shots, for his 11th Tour title. The same report notes he became the first non-American with 11 PGA Tour wins before turning 30.
Three Tour Championships too: 2016, 2019 and 2022. Wikipedia's entry records him as the first player to win the FedEx Cup three times.
Two Players Championships, 2019 and 2025. Two RBC Canadian Opens, 2019 and 2022. Two CJ Cups, 2021 and 2022. Two Deutsche Bank Championships, 2012 and 2016.
Here's where the quiz gets hard. Doubling up at the same event means remembering the years, not the venues, and that's exactly where memory goes soft.
The five that would trip a real fan
Be honest with yourself
How many of these did you get?
- 2012 BMW Championship: Won the week after the Deutsche Bank, back to back in the playoffs. Everybody remembers the 2012 PGA. Almost nobody remembers he won the next two playoff events after it.
- 2019 WGC-HSBC Champions: A World Golf Championship in Shanghai in November, an event that no longer exists. It's win number 18, and I'd wager most golf writers would need a second.
- 2016 Deutsche Bank Championship: The first of two wins that September, overshadowed by the Tour Championship that followed and the FedEx Cup that came with it.
- 2023 Genesis Scottish Open: A Sunday at The Renaissance Club the week before the Open. Counts on both tours. Easy to file under DP World Tour and forget it's a PGA Tour win too.
- 2015 WGC-Cadillac Match Play: The one he forgot on national television in 2025, per Sports Illustrated. If it slipped his mind, it's allowed to slip yours.
What the 30 say about the shape of a career
Four wins in 2012. Zero in 2013. Then five across 2014 and 2015.
Read the table by year and the gaps jump out. Nothing in 2013 or 2017. Nothing in 2020. The 2018 Arnold Palmer Invitational, per contemporary press reporting, ended an 18-month drought stretching back to the 2016 Tour Championship, with birdies on five of the last six holes at Bay Hill. Flag that year.
Then a late surge most players never get. Four wins across 2025 and 2026, including two majors, starting at 35.
Sports Illustrated noted that his 2025 Pebble Beach win made him the first player to reach 27 PGA Tour victories since Mickelson in 2005. Twenty years between anyone hitting that number.
The worldwide total is disputed by one. The U.S. Open's 2026 bio lists 46 professional wins. Wikipedia lists 45. Nobody's corrected either, and given how the counting works across tours, I'd not lose sleep over it.
Five things people get wrong about Rory's win count
Fact-check
- “He's got 29 wins.” He had 29 after the 2025 Masters. The 2026 Masters made it 30, per Golf Channel and the PGA Tour's own profile.
- “All 30 are individual wins.” Twenty-nine are. The 2024 Zurich Classic was a team event with Shane Lowry, and the Tour counts it.
- “He's never won in California.” He said that himself at Pebble Beach in 2025 and was wrong. The 2015 Match Play at Harding Park is win number 10, and Pebble Beach itself became number 27.
- “He's 12th all-time in wins.” He's 12th in majors, tied with Faldo, Trevino and Mickelson. In total PGA Tour wins he's tied 16th with Horton Smith.
- “The FedEx Cup counts as a win.” It doesn't. His three FedEx Cups came with three Tour Championship wins, which are the ones on the list.
Verification block
Confirmed: Golf Channel's 30-win list; the PGA Tour player profile showing 30 wins and a tie for 16th with Horton Smith; the USGA bio's 2011 U.S. Open record; Sports Illustrated's Pebble Beach account; and the event-by-event records listed below.
Still unverified: whether Rory could name all 30 on camera. I could not open a clip that proves that claim, so this story does not pretend otherwise.
The Raw Verdict
Thirty wins, and the interesting ones aren't the majors. They're the Deutsche Banks and the HSBC and the Scottish Open, the ones that got won on ordinary Sundays and filed away before the next flight. A career is mostly those.
Try the table on someone at your club this weekend. My bet is a keen fan gets 22, a casual one gets 12, and everyone forgets Shanghai. If Rory himself lost track of a World Golf Championship on live television, none of us should feel bad about it.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many PGA Tour wins does Rory McIlroy have?
Thirty, per Golf Channel's published list and the PGA Tour's player profile, starting with the 2010 Quail Hollow Championship and most recently the 2026 Masters. That total ties him with Horton Smith for 16th on the PGA Tour's all-time wins list.
How many majors has Rory McIlroy won?
Six: the 2011 U.S. Open, the 2012 and 2014 PGA Championships, the 2014 Open Championship, and the 2025 and 2026 Masters. The PGA Tour notes that ties him with Nick Faldo, Lee Trevino and Phil Mickelson for 12th all-time.
Which event has Rory won most often?
The tournament at Quail Hollow, four times: 2010 as the Quail Hollow Championship and 2015, 2021 and 2024 as the Wells Fargo Championship. His 2015 win there came by seven shots at a tournament-record 21-under 267.
Has Rory McIlroy ever forgotten one of his own wins?
Yes, on air. Sports Illustrated reported that at the 2025 AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am he told CBS he wasn't sure he'd ever won in California, forgetting his 2015 WGC-Cadillac Match Play victory at TPC Harding Park. He won at Pebble two days later.
Has Rory been challenged to name his wins before?
Golf Digest ran a video challenging him to name all 24 of his PGA Tour wins in February 2024, flagged for age. In July 2026 the PGA Tour filmed him attempting to name the past 30 Open Championship winners. Whether he's tried the full 30 of his own on camera, I couldn't verify.
Sources
- Golf Channel's published list of Rory's 30 PGA Tour wins. The chronological record used for the table.
- PGA Tour player profile. Total wins, all-time position and major count.
- U.S. Open player bio. The 2011 record and worldwide-win context.
- Sports Illustrated's Pebble Beach coverage. The California quote and 2025 win context.
- Archived Al Jazeera report. McIlroy's 2015 Wells Fargo margin and record.
- GOLFRAW: PGA Tour desk. The archive hub for records, schedules and player reporting.
- GOLFRAW: Latest News. The wider GolfRaw reporting index.
- GOLFRAW search. Search the archive for McIlroy, major and FedEx Cup coverage.
- Record checks for this report: every row cross-checked against Golf Channel and the PGA Tour profile; the Pebble quote checked against the supplied Sports Illustrated account; the 2026 Masters total checked against the supplied PGA Tour record.
How we reported this. GOLFRAW Editorial separates the official PGA Tour win count from the disputed worldwide total and labels the on-camera memory claim as unverified. Every event is shown so readers can check the count themselves.
Author. GOLFRAW Editorial is GolfRaw’s golf news and verification desk.
Corrections. None at publication. Corrections policy.
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