Both have had outstanding 2025 campaigns, but over the last four days—despite The Open Championship serving as a homecoming for McIlroy in Northern Ireland—it was all Scheffler. The 29-year-old dominated his way to his first Open Championship title,

This was the stunner: That’s the exact number of days Tiger Woods required to win the first four of his 15 majors, from his first Masters title in 1997 to, yes, taking the Open Championship at St. Andrews in 2000 at age 24.