{"id":358128,"date":"2025-12-19T10:47:31","date_gmt":"2025-12-19T10:47:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/358128\/"},"modified":"2025-12-19T10:47:31","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T10:47:31","slug":"golf-business-news-double-delight-for-golf-as-rory-mcilroy-wins-bbc-sports-personality-of-the-year-and-european-ryder-cup-heroes-lift-team-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/358128\/","title":{"rendered":"Golf Business News – Double delight for golf as Rory McIlroy wins BBC Sports Personality of the Year and European Ryder Cup heroes lift team title"},"content":{"rendered":"

Golf enjoyed a rare double at the 2025 BBC Sports Personality of the Year awards<\/a> after Rory McIlroy lived up to his favourite\u2019s billing by scooping the individual trophy, while Europe\u2019s Ryder Cup team pulled off something of a suprise by winning the public vote for the Team of the Year title.<\/p>\n

McIlroy proved the popular choice by the voting public in a year that saw him clinch the career Grand Slam with victory at the Masters and playing a key role in Europe\u2019s first Ryder Cup win in America since 2012. <\/p>\n

The 36-year-old also won the Irish Open for a second time, with further successes at the Players Championship and the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am, before topping off a stellar year with his seventh Race to Dubai title.<\/p>\n

McIlroy was one of six nominees for the award, the others being F1 World Champion Lando Norris, England women\u2019s footballers Hannah Hampton and Chloe Kelly, England women\u2019s rugby union star Ellie Kildunne and world no.1 darts player Luke Littler.<\/p>\n

The Northern Irishman is just the third golfer to win BBC Sports Personality of the Year, after Dai Rees in 1957 and Nick Faldo in 1989.<\/p>\n

\u201cWow,\u201d McIlroy said after receiving the award at the glittering ceremony held in Salford. \u201c2025 has been the year I made my dreams come true. From Augusta to the Ryder Cup and everything in between. It\u2019s the year dreams are made of. I have a lot of people to thank. Firstly, the public, my family, my mum and my dad. They sacrificed so much for me. I wouldn\u2019t be here without them, so thank you.<\/p>\n

My wife Erica and my daughter Poppy, they are what holds me together. My rocks. They couldn\u2019t be here tonight, but I can\u2019t wait to get back tomorrow and celebrate this with them. I am very honoured to get my hands on this trophy. Hopefully I can challenge to get it again next year!\u201d<\/p>\n

\"\"Tommy Fleetwood and Rory McIlroy accepted the Team of the Year Award on behalf of their European Ryder Cup teammates <\/p>\n

While McIlroy\u2019s SPOTY win was hotly tipped, Team Europe\u2019s victory in the Team of the Year category was far less certain, in the face of stiff competition from England Lionesses\u2019 retention of the European Championship and the England women\u2019s rugby team victory in the World Cup. But Luke Donald\u2019s team\u2019s 15-13 away victory in the cauldron of New York captured the public\u2019s imagination to carry them to the award, marking the seventh time that a Ryder Cup team has captured the honour, and the first since 2010.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs a lot of other sports people in this room know that it\u2019s an honour to be a part of these teams,\u201d said Rory McIlroy as he collected the award for Team Europe alongside Tommy Fleetwood. \u201cWe\u2019re up here as two of the 12 players, but we also had the captain, vice-captains and all of the backroom team \u2013 we could not have done what we did without all of them.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Golf enjoyed a rare double at the 2025 BBC Sports Personality of the Year awards after Rory McIlroy…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":358129,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[566],"tags":[64,63,755,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-358128","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\/358128","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=358128"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358128\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/358129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=358128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=358128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=358128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}