{"id":694013,"date":"2026-06-09T18:43:12","date_gmt":"2026-06-09T18:43:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/694013\/"},"modified":"2026-06-09T18:43:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T18:43:12","slug":"rory-mcilroy-time100-most-influential-people-in-sports-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/694013\/","title":{"rendered":"Rory McIlroy: TIME100 Most Influential People in Sports 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-testid=\"paragraph-element\" class=\"rich-text mb-6 font-graphik text-body-large text-black-coffee focus-visible:outline focus-visible:outline-black-coffee focus-visible:outline-2 focus-visible:outline-offset-2 focus-visible:shadow-focus-color text-left\">Back-to-back Green Jackets are looking spiffy on Rory McIlroy, arguably the greatest golfer of the last 15 years and one of the all-time best. McIlroy\u2019s Masters win in 2025 ended an 11-year drought between majors and gave him the career Grand Slam: he\u2019s one of six men, alongside the likes of Jack Nicklaus and Tiger Woods, to win the Masters, U.S. Open, British Open, and PGA Championship. At the Ryder Cup last fall, the Northern Ireland Native\u2019s clutch play\u2014in the face of heckling from the New York City-area crowd\u2014helped deliver victory for his European side. McIlroy was the most prominent critic of LIV Golf\u2019s initial raid on PGA Tour players four years ago, and he has kept his word to stay on the tour; meanwhile, the high-paying breakaway circuit LIV appears to be crumbling. With his 2026 victory at Augusta, McIlroy tied Nick Faldo for the second-most major titles for a European player (six) and became just the fourth golfer ever to win consecutive Masters. \u201cI certainly don&#8217;t want to stop here,&#8221; McIlroy, 37, said after his win. \u201cI&#8217;m in a really good spot with my game and my body.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Back-to-back Green Jackets are looking spiffy on Rory McIlroy, arguably the greatest golfer of the last 15 years&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":694014,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71],"tags":[25351,427,2849,99],"class_list":["post-694013","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-franchise","tag-golf","tag-list","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/694013","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=694013"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/694013\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/694014"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=694013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=694013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=694013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}