Even before his Career Grand Slam clinching win in April, Rory McIlroy was already the caliber of player to celebrate and commemorate with an award. But that Masters win sped up the process a bit.<\/p>\n
On Tuesday, the DP World Tour announced the creation of the Rory McIlroy Award, an honor given to the member who earns the most Race to Dubai points across the four major championships. It will be presented for the first time in 2026.<\/p>\n
\u201cTo have something named after you, that will be presented to future generations of players, is a huge honour and it is very humbling,\u201d McIlroy said. \u201cIt certainly means a lot to me because the DP World Tour was where I started my career. I\u2019ve always loved playing on it and, of course, representing Europe and the Tour in the Ryder Cup.<\/p>\n
“I\u2019m incredibly proud to be the first European to achieve the Career Grand Slam. The majors represent the pinnacle of our sport, and I hope my success can inspire other DP World Tour members to chase and achieve their own dreams for years to come.\u201d<\/p>\n
This is the fifth DP World Tour award named after one of the circuit\u2019s legends, joining Seve Ballesteros, Harry Vardon, Sir Henry Cotton, and John Jacobs. <\/p>\n
\u201cWhilst Rory will no doubt go on to achieve many more great things during his career, as a Tour we wanted to commemorate his historic achievement this year of becoming the first European winner of the Career Grand Slam,\u201d Guy Kinnings, the CEO of the DP World Tour, said. \u201cThis new award will be a permanent legacy that we hope will inspire future generations of DP World Tour members aiming to follow in Rory\u2019s footsteps on golf\u2019s biggest stage.<\/p>\n
\u201cRory has already made such an immense contribution to our Tour and to golf in general across his career to date. He is also a wonderful ambassador for global golf, so we are incredibly pleased to unveil The Rory McIlroy Award in his honour.\u201d<\/p>\n
And before you ask, no, McIlroy can\u2019t win the award himself\u2014it\u2019s a shame, that presentation ceremony would\u2019ve been hilarious.<\/p>\n
As a proud member of the McIlroy Fan Club, this is pretty damn cool. He\u2019s got a lot of good years left in him and will no doubt add more titles to his resume, but when a player achieves something only five have done before him, that\u2019s worthy of an award in his honor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Even before his Career Grand Slam clinching win in April, Rory McIlroy was already the caliber of player…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":278211,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[566],"tags":[64,63,755,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-278210","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-golf","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=278210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278210\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/278211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=278210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=278210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=278210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}