Then again, Spieth was stuck on 11 wins for nearly four years until winning the Texas Open this year. They have set the target for players behind them like Justin Thomas (14 wins) and Jordan Spieth (12), who both are 28. McIlroy, who turned pro three months before Johnson, is ahead of him in worldwide victories (28-25). He since has added the Masters, and his PGA Tour count is at 24.
Johnson got there at age 34 when he only had one major. For now, it’s appreciating what - and how many times - he has won.Īmong players who have turned pro in the last 20 years, McIlroy and Dustin Johnson are the only ones to reach 20 wins on the PGA Tour. With a talent like McIlroy, there’s always the temptation to ask whether he should have done more. He has gone 26 majors since winning his last one, the PGA Championship at Valhalla in 2014. 1 in the world in July 2020, and then eight months later he had slipped completely out of the top 10. Mostly it’s about moving forward in a game known to throw careers into reverse every now and again, and McIlroy has not been immune from that. As a 32-year-old who was questioned at the start of the week in Las Vegas why he had fallen to No. 250 in the world and still 14 months away from his first pro victory. It would be pretty cool for an 18-year-old in his second month as a pro, at No.
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