It’s the third time the Northern Irishman had taken the Jack Nicklaus Award, having scooped the honour in 2012 and 2014.
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Rory McIlroy has been named as the richest young sports star in Britain and Ireland for the second consecutive year, according to The Sunday Times Rich List.
Tiger Woods faces an uphill battle to advance to the knockout phase of the WGC-Dell Technologies Match Play, after losing on day two in Texas on Thursday.
The headline group of Tiger Woods, Rory McIlroy and holder, Justin Thomas, launched bids for the PGA Championship at a sunny Bellerive Country Club on Thursday.
The final round began with Reed holding a three-shot advantage over Rory McIlroy, but while the Northern Irishman’s challenge faded Reed had to hold off his hard-charging U.S. Ryder Cup team mates to claim his first major championship.
“Right now I can feel my left rhomboid going into spasm,” McIlroy said after finishing one-over at the US PGA.
“As I have said many times before, majors will ultimately determine my golf career, but I have had the rest of this busy season to consider as well.’’
His victory at the season-ending DP World Tour Championships was perhaps the pick of the bunch, as he held off a strong challenge by Danny Willett to defend his Race to Dubai crown
Rory shared a picture of the couple’s view of the Eiffel Tower last night where couples the world over have proposed
Grace is more than 1.1million points behind McIlroy on the Race to Dubai, but each event in the Final Series offers 1.3million to the winner and the 27-year-old is in a rich vein of form after compiling a perfect 5-0 record in the Presidents Cup in South Korea last month