Dominant Rory McIlroy proves up for The Match

Rory McIlroy won a closest-to-the-pin tiebreaker to earn $1.6m at the end of The Match 9 on Monday night in Florida.

The ninth edition of the exhibition golf series brought McIlroy, Max Homa and LPGA stars Lexi Thompson and Rose Zhang together for a 12-hole skins match under the lights at The Park in West Palm Beach.

But after Holywood golfer won three skins for a combined $800,000 for charity, no player emerged to win any of the final four holes.

At the par-five 12th hole, McIlroy announced that an unidentified friend of his was donating $500,000 to bring the total remaining stakes to $1.6m. After McIlroy missed an eagle putt and was given the birdie, Homa drained a longer birdie putt to match him.

So the four players returned to the fairway from approximately 100 yards out for a tiebreaker.

McIlroy went first and stuck his wedge shot to just over four feet and none of his counterparts came close to beating him.

The winning shot from @McIlroyRory