Rory McIlroy wins $1.25 million from his couch
Rory McIlroy became $1.25 million richer on Sunday, and it wasn’t by playing golf.
McIlroy won the European Tour’s season-long Race to Dubai with one event left on the calendar. Only three players — Sergio Garcia, Jamie Donaldson and Marcel Siem — could have caught the world No. 1, but would have needed to win this week’s Turkish Airlines Open and next week’s season-ending DP World Tour Championship in Dubai. When Brooks Koepka won the event, the Race to Dubai was officially over.
The Ulsterman announced he would be skipping the first two events of the four-event series, the BMW Masters and WGC-HSBC Champions, to prepare for a 2015 trial in Ireland to settle a lawsuit he brought against his former representation at Dublin-based Horizon Sports Management. McIlroy didn’t publicly give a reason for not teeing it up in Turkey.
On Twitter, McIlroy congratulated Koepka on his first European Tour win, but didn’t mention his crowning as Europe’s best.
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