Rory McIlroy

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Rory McIlroy
Rory McIlroy watches drive flight (portrait orientation) .jpg
Personnel
Nation: Northern IrelandNorthern Ireland Northern Ireland
Career data
Professional since: 2007
Current tour: PGA Tour , European Tour
Tournament wins: 27
Major wins : 4 (2011, 2012, 2014)
Awards: PGA Tour Money Leader (2012),
PGA Player of the Year (2012),
PGA Tour Player of the Year (2012, 2014),
Vardon Trophy (2012, 2014),
Byron Nelson Award (2012),
Harry Vardon Trophy (2012, 2014 ),
Winner of the Race to Dubai (2012, 2014, 2015),
Winner of the FedEx Cup (2016, 2019),
European Tour Golfer of the Year (2012, 2014, 2015),
Mark H. McCormack Award (2012),
Laureus Sport Award (2012)

Rory McIlroy , MBE (born May 4, 1989 in Holywood , Northern Ireland ) is a Northern Irish professional golfer . He is a four-time major champion . He is also to Luke Donald , the second golfer to both the money list the PGA Tour and the European Tour to win what in 2012 in both tournament series entitled him Player of the Year earned

Career

At the age of 15, McIlroy was a member of the victorious European team at the 2004 Junior Ryder Cup . A year later, he became the youngest ever winner of both the West of Ireland Championship and the Irish Close Championship . He was able to defend both titles the following year and also win the European Amateur Championship . In the same year McIlroy represented Ireland in the Eisenhower Trophy and victorious in the Amateur World Team Championship . In February 2007 he was at the top of the world rankings for amateurs for a week. At the 2007 Open Championship in Carnoustie, he won the Silver Medal as best amateur . That year, McIlroy was on the team from Great Britain & Ireland in the Walker Cup , which was just inferior to the USA.

Just a few days after his 16th birthday, McIlroy had his first appearance at a European Tour tournament , the British Masters 2005. At the age of 17, he achieved his first place in the prize money at the Dubai Desert Classic 2007, which he did not accept as an amateur could.

Rory McIlroy at the Memorial Golf Tournament.jpg

In September 2007 he became a professional golfer and earned enough prize money through invitations to tournaments on the European Tour to secure full eligibility to play for the following season. At the end of that season he finished 95th in the European Tour Order of Merit , a year later McIlroy was already 36th.

In February 2009 he finally managed to win his first tournament at the heavily occupied Dubai Desert Classic . With that he also reached the top 20 of the golf world rankings . After a third place in the PGA Championship and a second place in the Dubai World Championship , McIlroy finished second in the Race to Dubai at the end of the season and made it into the top 10 of the world rankings.

Since 2010, McIlroy has also played on the PGA Tour in the USA . His first win was at the Quail Hollow Championship in early May .

After he lost a lead of four strokes after the third day at The Masters in April 2011 and finished in shared 15th place, he achieved his first victory in a major championship in June . He won the US Open with the best result ever played at this tournament of 16 strokes under par, with which he undercut the old record (−12) set by Tiger Woods in 2000. After this tournament he was ranked fourth in the world . In November 2011, McIlroy moved up to second place.

In January 2012, McIlroy received the Laureus Sport Award in the World Breakthrough of the Year category.

By winning the Honda Classic in March 2012, McIlroy was able to take first place in the world rankings for the first time. At 22, he is the second youngest in the world to date. In August he was able to secure his second major victory at the PGA Championship with a record lead of eight strokes (previously Jack Nicklaus with seven). He temporarily took the lead in the world rankings again.

In July 2014 he won the Open Championship and thus his third major. After winning the WGC-Bridgestone Invitational in August, he moved back to number one in the world rankings and followed in the same month with his fourth major title by winning the PGA Championship. The Northern Irish also won the Race to Dubai of the European Tour at the end of the 2014 season .

In 2015 McIlroy won his second tournament participation, the Omega Dubai Desert Classic on the European Tour. With a score of 22 under par, he set the tournament record. At the Honda Classic , his first start on the PGA Tour that year, he missed for the first time since the 2013 Open Championship. H. after 22 consecutive participations, the cut on the PGA Tour. At the US Masters he showed his best performance so far in this tournament with fourth place. On May 3, he prevailed in the final of the WGC-Cadillac Match Play Championship with 4 & 2 against the American Gary Woodland . It was his second success so far at a tournament of the World Golf Championship. At the end of September 2016, Rory won the Tour Championship and the FedEx Cup .

On March 17, 2019 he won the Players Championship for the first time , it was his 15th tournament victory on the PGA Tour. In June 2019 McIlroy won the Canadian Open and is therefore part of the Triple Crown, he was able to win the three oldest tournaments of the PGA Tour in his career, the Open Championship, the US Open and the Canadian Open. At the end of that season he won the Tour Championship and the FedEx Cup for the second time.

Private

McIlroy was in a relationship with the Danish tennis player and former world number one Caroline Wozniacki for almost 3 years and engaged since December 31, 2013. On May 21, 2014, it was announced that the golfer broke off the engagement and the couple separated.

Since December 2015, McIlroy was engaged to Erica Stoll, a PGA America employee. The two married in April 2017.

successes

Victories on the European Tour (14)

Major Championship is in bold .

PGA Tour wins (18)

Other tournament victories (2)

Results in major championships

competition 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019
The Masters DNP DNP T20 CUT T15 T40 T25 T8 4th T10 T7 T5 T21
PGA Championship DNP DNP T3 T3 T64 1 T8 1 17th CUT T23 T50 T8
US Open DNP DNP T10 CUT 1 CUT T41 T23 T9 CUT CUT CUT T9
The Open Championship T42 LA DNP T47 T3 T25 T60 CUT 1 DNP T5 T4 T2 CUT

LA = Low Amateur (Best Amateur)
DNP = did not take part
CUT = Cut not made
"T" split placement
Green background for victory
Yellow background for top 10

Participation in team competitions

amateur

  • Junior Ryder Cup (for Europe): 2004 (winner)
  • Eisenhower Trophy (for Ireland): 2006
  • European Amateur Team Championship (for Ireland): 2007 (winner)
  • Walker Cup (for Great Britain & Ireland): 2007

professional

See also

Web links

Commons : Rory McIlroy  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.golf.de/publish/60092954/shortnews/ausierungen-fuer-mcilroy-und-clarkey
  2. ^ Rory McIlroy engaged to Wozniacki. In: espn.go.com. January 1, 2014, accessed May 21, 2014 .
  3. ↑ Sports stars: McIlroy calls off wedding with Wozniacki at the last second. In: spiegel.de. May 21, 2014, accessed May 21, 2014 .
  4. ↑ http://www.golfpost.de/golfer-rory-mcilroy-hochzeit-erica-stoll-7777267334/
personal data
SURNAME McIlroy, Rory
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Northern Irish golfer
DATE OF BIRTH May 4th 1989
PLACE OF BIRTH Holywood , Northern Ireland