Rory McIlroy won the 89th Masters Tournament to join illustrious company in completing the career Grand Slam.
The Northern Irishman dramatically defeated Justin Rose in a play-off at Augusta National on Sunday, ending a near 11-year-wait for his fifth Major Championship victory.
By winning the fourth and final leg of golf's four biggest titles in men's professional golf, he became just the sixth player to do so - after Gene Sarazen, Ben Hogan, Gary Player, Jack Nicklaus and Tiger Woods.
McIlroy, 35, is just the second member in the elite group since the turn of the century after Woods did so by winning The Open at St Andrews in 2000.
"This is my 17th time here, and I started to wonder if it would ever be my time," McIlroy said after his win.
"I'm just absolutely honored and thrilled, and so proud to be able to call myself a Masters champion ... A moment like that makes all the years and all the close calls worth it."
Here, we take a look at the statistics underlining the continued global success of the Northern Irishman.
Since turning professional in 2007, as an 18-year-old, McIlroy has made a combined 509 appearances across the DP World Tour and PGA TOUR. Including his eight amateur starts on the DP World Tour, he has 254 starts on Golf’s Global Tour and 263 on the PGA TOUR to make 517 overall.
The first title of his career in the paid ranks came on the DP World Tour in 2009 at the Dubai Desert Classic, a tournament he has won a record four times.
In 2009, then aged 20, he made his debut on the PGA TOUR - outside the Major Championships and WGCs - at the Honda Classic, finishing in a tie for 13th.
Later that year, he climbed into the top 10 on the Official World Golf Ranking for the first time.
His first title on the PGA TOUR came at the Quail Hollow Championship in 2010, a title he has since won a further three times.
Since he became World Number One for the first time in 2012, he has spent a cumulative 122 weeks at the top of the Official World Golf Ranking.
Alongside his five Majors, three WGCs and victory at the co-sanctioned Genesis Scottish Open, McIlroy has ten wins on the DP World Tour and 20 on the PGA TOUR.
Among those are five Majors - two at the US PGA Championship and one at both the U.S. Open, The Open and most recently the Masters. Sir Nick Faldo is the only European golfer to have won more Majors with six.
As is well known, the Masters eluded him the longest, claiming the Green Jacket on his 20th visit to Augusta National after his debut came in 2009.
He has also won the Harry Vardon Trophy six times, awarded to the winner of the Race to Dubai on the DP World Tour, and three FedEx Cups, awarded to the PGA TOUR's leading season-long player.
At 35, he is the second oldest player to complete the career Grand Slam, five years younger than Hogan was when he achieved it in 1953.
Across his 63 appearances in Majors, since his debut at the Masters in 2009, he has made the cut on 52 occassions, amassed 32 top tens, and four runner-ups. In the ongoing 16-year span, he has missed just one Major - the 2015 Open Championship through injury.
Alongside his individual success, McIlroy has starred as a team player - winning five Ryder Cups since his debut at Celtic Manor in 2010.
Since losing his first match in the biennial matchplay contest - in fourballs - he has claimed 18 points from 33 matches in seven Ryder Cups.
