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Northern Ireland's Rory McIlroy studies the Claret Jug after winning the 2014 British Open Golf Championship at Royal Liverpool Golf Course in Hoylake, north west England on July 20, 2014. McIlroy won the British Open at Royal Liverpool Golf Course in Hoylake with a final round of 71. The 25-year-old Northern Irishman won with a seventeen under par total of 271, two strokes clear of Rickie Fowler and Sergio Garcia. Rory McIlroy joined the elite list of golfers to have won three of the four major titles at Hoylake on Sunday. At 25, McIlroy joined legends Tiger Woods and Jack Nicklaus as the only players to have achieved that feat by the time they were 25 and he is the first European to have won three majors. AFP PHOTO / ANDREW YATES (Photo credit should read ANDREW YATES/AFP via Getty Images)