Rory McIlroy has won the 90th Masters Tournament, defending his title against a charging field of the world’s best to win his second green jacket.

Holding his own against the likes of Cameron Young, Scottie Scheffler, Justin Rose and more, McIlroy would ride birdies at Nos. 12 and 13 of Amen Corner to reach 13-under, a number he would hold until a bogey at the last.

Erupting in emotion, McIlroy walked off the final green at Augusta National and hugged his daughter Poppy for the second straight year as the Masters champion.

It took every shot in McIlroy's arsenal, as improbable par saves across the back nine kept McIlroy at bay from the field. Ultimately, his tee shot into the legendary 12th "Golden Bell" will be the defining moment of this spectacular Sunday.

The win gives McIlroy his 30th victory on the PGA TOUR, and his sixth major championship.

Read below to see how it all unfolded Sunday minute-by-minute.

6:56 p.m.: McIlroy nearly saves par with his first putt, waiting to tap in as Young secures his T3 finish. He holes his putt, and erupts in emotion as the first back-to-back winner of the Masters since Tiger Woods.

6:51 p.m.: McIlroy launches an 8-iron over the trees and, somehow, into the front bunker of the 18th green in another miraculous escape act.

He would splash out and onto the green, leaving two putts to win his second green jacket.

6:44 p.m.: Surely feeling the gravity of the moment, McIlroy wipes his drive hard right on the final tee, nearly into the 10th fairway.

The shot calls for a fade, something the Ulsterman had struggled with off the tee all week. Famously preferring a draw, McIlroy overcooked his tee ball and will now have to scramble for at least a bogey to earn his second green jacket.

Oh, the humanity.

6:40 p.m.: Rose’s approach on 18 comes up short, and he gets up-and-down for par to end another impossibly spirited run at the Masters.

It’s his sixth top 10 at Augusta, and his ninth straight finish of T25 or better at the Masters. One wouldn’t think that the soon-to-be 46-year-old would be capable of another run at a green jacket, but few thought this late-career renaissance was ever in the cards as well for the storied Englishman.

McIlroy saves another par at 17 and heads to the last two clear of Scheffler, three of Young.

6:32 p.m.: Young’s birdie attempt at the 16th lips out. It was an end-over-end and perfect roll until the last moment, as he was unable to join Scheffler at 11-under for the time being.

McIlroy’s save was a scramble effort fit for a two-time Masters winner, taking putter from behind the green and lofting the ball high up on the slope to carry it softly down next to the hole. A true testament to the expansive knowledge McIlroy possesses of Augusta National.

Up ahead, Rose lips out a 3-footer for par at 17 to fall back to 10-under. It is a painful scene for those rooting for perhaps the most touching possible outcome of this fabulous Sunday. He will need a birdie on the last to force a playoff.

6:18 p.m.: Perhaps the forgotten man on this busy Sunday, Burns re-emerges at 10-under par with his third birdie in four holes.

It’s a memorable one, a 60-foot bomb on the 16th that sends the sunburnt crowd, surely many Crow’s Nests deep, into havoc as they watch it race the length of the green into the hole.

Meanwhile, Scheffler’s birdie try at the 17th comes to rest millimeters from the hole.

An up-and-down par on the last will end his week with a bogey-free 68 at 11-under, the current clubhouse leader.

6:02 p.m.: Scheffler follows up his performance at 15 with a showstopping birdie at 16, picking the perfect slope on the green to draw his ball down towards the water and inside 10 feet. The gallery would erupt as Scheffler poured it in to move to 11-under, the idea of a Scheffler/McIlroy playoff dancing in the heads of golf fans across the globe.

Not out of it yet is Rose, who elected to use putter well in the rough to the right of 15 green to perfection. He would tap in for birdie on the par 5 and draw level with Scheffler, two shots back.

5:50 p.m.: A gorgeous chip from the back of the heavily sloped 13th green that crawls down inside 10 feet of the pin leads to back-to-back birdies for McIlroy, who returns to 13-under par, a mark he touched once this tournament already early Saturday afternoon.

However, Scheffler finally was able to break the seal with a Houdini birdie at 15. After his second shot from the pinestraw was swatted hard right by a branch, Scheffler calmly hit the green by splitting two trees and rolled in a lengthy birdie to finally reach double-digits under par.

After questions circling their game heading into the Masters, McIlroy and Scheffler sit first and T2 with five holes to play on Sunday.

5:38 p.m.: After an onslaught of scoring for the last hour, the birdies have dried up for everyone not named McIlroy.

Rose smothers another approach left on 15, Young finds the rough off the tee at 13, Henley can't seem to find the bottom of the cup despite solid birdie looks on the greens and Scheffler, easily the most frightening chaser to start the day, is stuck in neutral with 11 straight pars.

5:26 p.m.: It’s pure major masterclass for McIlroy at the 12th. The defending champion would wait for the perfect wind conditions on the tee box before quickly getting in position and delivering a nine-iron inside 7 feet, the closest of the day at the hole, in a pivotal moment.

He would convert for birdie to go two clear of the field, as Rose reached the 13th in two with a miraculous approach but left empty-handed with a three-putt par.

5:08 p.m.: McIlroy is your solo-leader once again as Rose falls victim to the par-3 12th Golden Bell. Long on his approach, he chunked his chip and would settle for bogey, his second in a row to drop two shots through two legs of Amen Corner.

4:59 p.m.: Rose takes a step backwards on the 11th, flaring his approach shot well short and right of the green for his first bogey since the third hole.

It brings him level to McIlroy, who is now one ahead of Young at 11-under after the New Yorker made his third bogey in four holes at the ninth.

Up ahead, Hatton caps off his round of 66 to finish at 10-under.

4:34 p.m.: Tyrell Hatton crashes the party at 10-under with his fourth birdie in a row at the 16th. While he will likely run out of holes, it's another solid showing for Hatton in a major championship, a common theme throughout his career.

McIlroy and Young both birdie the par-5 eighth to move within one of Rose at 11-under. Young took a creative approach, hitting a low pitch across the green into the hill off the back, ramping his ball up and back down next to the hole.

Elsewhere, Max Homa caps off a round of 67, his best round of the week, to finish 8-under and secure his third-straight top-12 finish at the Masters and another invite.

4:20 p.m.: Another for Rose at the ninth for his fourth birdie in five holes, and the Englishman is officially white hot.

He goes out in 32 with a two-shot lead in an attempt to become the second-oldest player to win the green jacket.

Meanwhile, Henley hits a delicious iron into the 11th and is showing the game could make him a serious factor down the stretch. Henley has not carded a bogey since his last hole on Friday, and is looking to become the first Georgia native to win the Masters since Larry Mize in 1987, both hailing from the same town of Columbus.

4:12 p.m.: Rose ties the lead at 11-under through eight, and the idea of a win draped in destiny is now fully on the table.

It is unfathomable to imagine the 45-year-old Rose would be in this position yet again after his playoff loss last year and all the close calls he has had on this stage, but here he is, looking down the barrel of a green jacket with just 10 holes in his path.

McIlroy converts his crisp approach for birdie on seven after catching the slope and retreating back to inside 10 feet to return to 10-under. It's a badly needed birdie, just his second of the day, as Young finds the bunker with his approach and makes his second bogey in a row to fall level with McIlroy.

3:56 p.m.: McIlroy gives up another at the sixth, as his Texas wedge greenside settles on the fringe, leaving a long par attempt. He drops to 9-under, recording only one birdie over the stretch of Nos. 4-6 for the entire week.

Seconds later, Young misses his short par putt, keeping things steady at two strokes apart, 9-under and 11-under, respectively, with Rose and Henley both in between at 10-under.

3:40 p.m.: Back-to-back lengthy par saves for Scheffler keep him at 9-under through seven as he displays mettle with his flatstick. He will need to turn these par looks into birdie opportunities going forward, as Henley, on his 37th birthday, birdies the eighth to pass him on the leaderboard at 10-under.

Meanwhile, Rose hits one of the shots of the tournament, slicing an iron out of the pine straw on seven that reaches the green only to roll some 40 feet and nestle next to the hole. He reaches 10-under as well with an improbable tap-in.

3:27 p.m.: McIlroy, ever the dramatic, gives it right back on the demanding fourth with a graphic three-putt from inside six feet to make double bogey.

His tee shot on the most difficult par 3 was left, and a treacherous chip over the bunker and past the hole left him a par putt of around five feet. He would push that three feet past, and his comebacker would lip out to send him to the fifth tee two shots back of Young.

Just ahead, McIlroy's best mate Lowry may have given the final round an Irish goodbye on the fifth. Attempting to reach the green from the left fairway bunker, his shot ricocheted off the lip hard to the left, setting up a third shot from behind the trees. He would make double, going three-over his last two holes to tumble off the front page of the leaderboard.

3:15 p.m.: McIlroy strikes right back, writing a three at the third from the bunker for his first birdie of the day to level things at 12-under. It harkens back to last year, when McIlroy righted the ship at the third en route to his rollercoaster afternoon.

It was a par for Young that could have been far worse. He caught a massive break on the tee as his drive was launched well to the right before finding a friendly branch to knock his ball back down the fairway.

Meanwhile, Scheffler, Rose and surprise entrant Henley all sit 9-under, with Rose converting a long roll for birdie at the puzzling fifth green to bounce back from his bogey.

2:58 p.m.: It’s a double for Burns at No. 2 as his tee shot trickled into right pinestraw, where he was forced to take an unplayable before punching out. He would follow that with a sailed green on approach that suddenly turned a scoreable hole into a seven, his first double-bogey of the week to fall back to 9-under.

Just after, Young nearly chips into the front bunker on the second, but caroms over the lip to 10 feet, which he slides in for birdie to become the solo-leader at 12-under. McIlroy is unable to match with a slippery birdie try that stays above the hole.

2:42 p.m.: No blood between the final group at the first, as McIlroy and Young both come up short on birdie putts to remain 11-under. Something to watch today is if McIlroy has worked out the lefts from his wedges and short irons that plagued him on Saturday.

Just before them, Burns poured in a long birdie at the first to make a three-way tie at the top, while Scheffler showed off his world-class hands with an up-and-down birdie from the bunker at No. 3 to get to 9-under, just two back.

2:11 p.m.: Right on cue, Scheffler birdies his first hole to move to 8-under, just three back of the leaders.

Playing alongside Haotong Li just like he did when he won the 2025 The Open, Scheffler entered Sunday on the heels of the best round of his Masters career Saturday with a 65. A name none of the lead dogs want to see on the move behind them has gotten off on the right foot.

2:02 p.m.: The front page of the leaderboard has taken to the first tee.

A busy morning at the Masters has finally given way to the main event as those within striking distance of McIlroy and Young begin their final round at Augusta National.

We've seen low scores throughout the final morning on what some consider the best day of the year on the sports calendar, with Viktor Hovland scaring the course record at one point before getting overzealous on the 15th hole.

The burning questions as we begin our converage are as follows:

• Can McIlroy get off to a good start and avoid the perils of yesterday and last year's final round on the opening hole?
• Is Young capable of replicating McIlroy and Scottie Scheffler in winning both THE PLAYERS and the Masters for the third straight year?
• Who from the extremely dangerous chase pack of Burns, Lowry, Day, etc can make the most noise?
• Can Rose pull off another storybook redemption narrative and chase down McIlroy again?

It's all in front of us here on Sunday at Augusta.

At Saturday's conclusion – a day that featured dramatic movement on the leaderboard – Rory McIlroy’s six-shot lead had evaporated, leaving the defending champion tied with Cameron Young at 11-under 205. A dozen players stand within six shots of the lead, including two-time champion Scottie Scheffler, who starts the day four shots back.

McIlroy, world No. 2, and Young, world No. 3, will tee off in the final pairing at 2:25 p.m. ET. Today marks just the second time that final pairing on Sunday includes two of the top three players in the Official World Golf Rankings. That first occured in 2001, when then-No. 1 Tiger Woods was paired with No. 2 Phil Mickelson.

Right in front of them at 2:14 p.m. are Sam Burns (10 under) and Irishman Shane Lowry (9 under), who made Masters history on Saturday when he recorded his second career ace at Augusta National. The 2:03 p.m. tee time features Australian Jason Day, who's chasing his second major championship title and first green jacket, and Englishman Justin Rose, who notably finished runner-up for the third time at the Masters in 2025 after losing to McIlroy in a playoff.

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Sunday hole locations announced

While many of the hole locations for Sunday at the Masters are familiar to many fans, Augusta National still has some surprised for the final round.

Twelve of the 18 hole locations are essentially in the same place they were last year. Some have become annual staples for the second Sunday in April: the far right pin on No. 2, the right side location on No. 12, the famed front-left location on No. 18 where Rory McIlroy fell to his knees a year ago.

But there are a few notable changes from last year, including the par-3 16th. While the final-round hole was perched on the back right shelf last year, a nod to the 50th anniversary of Jack Nicklaus' 1975 triumph, it's back in a more familiar location in the lower left bowl this afternoon. It's one of three notable changes across the final four holes: The pin on the par-5 15th is in the back right after being more centered last year, while the hole on No. 17 will return to the far right portion of the green after being in the front left last year – where Patrick Reed notably holed out for eagle and McIlroy nearly followed in the final group.