Do you know when an announcement is bigger than one man? When assembled media gives you a round of applause after you let them know your decision. That happened on Wednesday at the Irish Open, with Rory McIlroy letting the world know that he made a decision on which country he would be representing at […]
Rory McIlroy leads the Memorial by three thanks to an opening 9-under 63
May 30, 2014 by
Apparently there are a lot of ways to handle the ending of a relationship. Rory McIlroy has decided the best answer for his is to make a whole lot of birdies. Just four days removed from his final round 66 at the BMW PGA Championship to claim one of the biggest titles on the European […]
Rory McIlroy wins the BMW PGA Championship thanks to a closing 66 on Sunday
May 28, 2014 by
This week was not supposed to end this way. Rory McIlroy was not supposed to be standing on the 18th green with his fist raised after back-to-back birdies capped off a back nine 32 and a final round 66 to win the BMW PGA Championship, basically the second biggest event on the European Tour calendar. […]
Rory McIlroy made two eagles in six holes on Thursday at the BMW PGA Championship
May 23, 2014 by
It has been a pretty crazy 24 hours for Rory McIlroy, who announced on Wednesday that he and fiance Caroline Wozniacki were splitting up and had a tee time on Thursday in one of the biggest events of the year on the European Tour. Rory started out a little sluggish, making two bogeys after just […]
Rory McIlroy fires his lowest round on the PGA Tour in over two years to open Honda Classic
February 28, 2014 by
If Rory McIlroy wants his winning slump on the PGA Tour to end this week, he sure started out the Honda Classic the way you’d want. Rory, the winner of this event back in 2012, opened with a bogey-free 63 to lead the field in Florida, doing it with basically the complete game it takes […]
Rory McIlroy slapped with penalty in Abu Dhabi, calls rule ‘stupid’
January 18, 2014 by
These days in professional golf it seems just about every week we’re battling with some sort of rule that could change the course of a tournament. This week at the Abu Dhabi HSBC Golf Championship we had one of those rare moments where a high profile golfer got slammed with a two-shot penalty while he […]
Here are highlights from the Tiger Woods versus Rory McIlroy exhibition match in China
December 7, 2013 by
If you live in the United States, you probably didn’t get to watch any of the exhibition match between Tiger Woods and Rory McIlroy that took place on Monday, but luckily we have some of the highlights from the made-for-TV spectacle. For the second straight year, McIlroy was able to take down Woods in this […]
Rory McIlroy ends 2013 drought with win at the Australian Open
December 1, 2013 by
This season wasn’t supposed to happen to Rory McIlroy. Nope, this was the year that Rory was expected to sign his monster club and clothing deal with Nike and burst out of the gate with the Swoosh and the swagger and the knowledge that he is the Next Big Thing in the game of golf […]
Yao Ming poses with Rory McIlroy, Dustin Johnson, Graeme McDowell and Luke Donald
November 2, 2013 by
A lot of the top golfers in the world are currently making their yearly China swing, and if we keep getting photos like the one above I hope they never leave. That picture is Yao Ming posing with Rory McIlroy, Dustin Johnson, Graeme McDowell, and Luke Donald, and it is a helpful reminder that Yao […]
Rory McIlroy thinks Brandel Chamblee was ‘completely wrong’ with Tiger comments
On Tuesday, at the HSBC Champions event in China, Rory McIlroy made it clear that if you go after his best buddy on tour you might also be going up against him. Rory was asked about the recent comments by Brandel Chamblee on Tiger Woods where Chamblee implied in an article on Golf.com that Woods’ […]