Rex Hoggard has unpopular opinion about how many more major championships Rory McIlroy will win before he retires

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Rory McIlroy has continued his superb start to the 2025 PGA Tour season, having just emerged victorious at the Players Championship.

TV coverage of McIlroy’s Players win has been criticised, with the Northern Irishman having overcome J.J. Spaun in a three-hole playoff.

Spaun was confused at TPC Sawgrass after his tee shot found the water on the 17th hole, with the pair having also played the 16th and 18th holes.

McIlroy now has 28 PGA Tour wins in his stellar career so far, with two coming in 2025 already after his win at the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am.

Four of those wins meanwhile have come at major championships; two at the PGA Championship and one each at the US Open and The Open Championship.

Rex Hoggard thinks Rory McIlroy will win ‘one or two’ more major championships

Potential further major championship wins for McIlroy have now been discussed ahead of the Masters, with Golf Channel’s Rex Hoggard deciding to go against the recent status quo.

“I am probably not going to go in line with what social media said yesterday, because I think one or two, or even maybe three is going to be the path forward,” Hoggard told Golf Channel.

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“Only because it’s so hard to win them now. It’s not as though Scottie Scheffler is going to quit playing golf or Xander Schauffele is going to quit playing in major championships.

“They have proven over the last decade that they are really hard to win for Rory. But you can see it, not just coming off this victory, but the win at Pebble Beach, what he did last year on the PGA Tour.

“I think everything is angling towards that, it’s still difficult to imagine him going on one of those runs though that he did earlier in his career, just because of the level of competition there is now.”

Major championship near misses could impact Rory McIlroy mentally

Hoggard has opted to go down a different route from many on social media who have predicted more than he did, but it really is hard to tell what will transpire at this stage.

McIlroy has constantly shown promise on the biggest stages over the years, but his major championship drought has now gone on for over a decade.

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He has come extremely close on occasion, notably by narrowly losing the US Open to Bryson DeChambeau last year, having secured that same finish at the 2022 Masters.

It remains to be seen if those near misses will motivate him to finally get over the line, or indeed if they will come back to haunt him mentally and prove to be a major stumbling block.

And aside from his own potential struggles, the likes of Scheffler and Schauffele will be extremely difficult to beat.

The former won his second Masters title last year, with the latter winning his first two majors at the PGA Championship and The Open Championship.