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• Better late than never: fans relive watching their teams end a long wait for a trophy

  25-12-2025 13:00
  Several teams got their hands on silverware at last in 2025. Here supporters talk about the pain and pleasure of finally winning16 March 2025: Won Carabao Cup, beating Liverpool 2-1 at Wembley, their first trophy in 56 years Continue reading...
  
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• I was there: Rory McIlroy’s Masters triumph was the ultimate moment

  25-12-2025 09:00
  It felt like nothing would top Tiger Woods’s Masters win, but then the Northern Irishman completed his career grand slam on an extraordinary final day at AugustaAt 7am on 14 April in an Augusta rental home, Rory McIlroy awoke and immediately spotted a Green Jacket draped over a chair. “You think: ‘Yeah, that did happen yesterday,’” he says. “That.” McIlroy was now the sixth man to win all four of golf’s majors.The detail of what lay around in the b
  
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• Koepka’s departure is a blow for LIV but also raises questions for PGA Tour | Ewan Murray

  24-12-2025 12:22
  Five-time major champion looks poised to become a fascinating test case for golf’s future after exiting Saudi-funded breakaway tourIt was portrayed as amicable when it felt so inevitable. News that Brooks Koepka will step away from LIV Golf in 2026 comes as no shock. This never felt a particularly sensible alliance; an individual who craves glory at the top level and a disruption regime that has grasped for relevance with only varying degrees of success.Koepka has looked unhappy in his pro
  
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• Japanese golf great 'Jumbo' Ozaki dies aged 78

  24-12-2025 08:56 via bbc.com
  The golf world has "lost a truly great man", says Japan Golf Tour Organisation's chief following the death the country's most successful professional golfer, Masashi 'Jumbo' Ozaki.
  
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• Koepka becomes first major winner to leave LIV Golf

  24-12-2025 00:55 via bbc.com
  Five-time major champion Brooks Koepka leaves LIV Golf to prioritise "the needs of his family".
  
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• Brooks Koepka quits LIV Golf after three years but PGA Tour return uncertain

  24-12-2025 00:29
  The 35-year-old joined Saudi-funded tour in 2022‘Brooks is prioritising the needs of his family’Brooks Koepka, the five-time major champion, has become the first player to defect from LIV Golf, a significant blow to the league funded by Saudi Arabia’s public investment fund and raises questions whether the PGA Tour will find a way for him to return.The 35-year-old American has made the decision in order to spend more time with his family. He joined the rival tour in 2022 and wo
  
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• 'It's giving me goosebumps' - Europe stars recall Ryder Cup triumph

  23-12-2025 07:38 via bbc.com
  Europe's Ryder Cup players reflect on their monumental victory over the US at Bethpage in New York for a BBC Radio 5 Live golf special to be aired on 26 December.
  
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• McIlroy named BBC NI Sports Personality of the Year

  22-12-2025 14:00 via bbc.com
  Rory McIlroy, who won the Masters in April to complete a Grand Slam of majors, is named BBC NI Sports Personality of the Year for 2025.
  
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• ‘A great night for golf’: McIlroy hails Spoty success after individual and team awards

  19-12-2025 13:00
  McIlroy: ‘Hopefully golf can build upon this’‘To get public’s recognition is really cool,’ says FleetwoodMoments before Rory McIlroy was named BBC’s Sports Personality of the Year, and the cream of British sport rose to applaud him, a nervy thought raced through his mind. “I was, like, not an F1 driver again … ” he said.This time, though, there was no late twist. Lando Norris was unable to emulate Lewis Hamilton, who had pipped McIlroy when
  
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• Lots more to achieve after incredible year - McIlroy

  19-12-2025 08:14 via bbc.com
  Newly crowned Sports Personality of the Year winner Rory McIlroy says he has "a lot more I want to achieve" after an "incredible" 2025.
  
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• Rory McIlroy named BBC Sports Personality of the Year 2025 – as it happened

  18-12-2025 22:56
  The golfer was rewarded for his Masters and Ryder Cup heroics with Ellie Kildunne in second and Lando Norris thirdAnd here are recent Guardian interviews with that trio of elite athletes. Get reading!Two more contenders for tonight’s big prize have arrived in Salford: Chloe Kelly and Rory McIlroy! Continue reading...
  
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• Rory McIlroy named Sports Personality of the Year to end golf’s drought

  18-12-2025 22:54
  Masters champion is first golfer in 36 years to claim awardKildunne finishes second in vote and Norris thirdRyder Cup side win team award and Wiegman coach prizeA full-throated “Rory roar” reverberated around MediaCity in Salford as Rory McIlroy became the first golfer in 36 years to win the BBC Sports Personality of the Year award – and tie a bow on a year for the ages.It was a fitting reward for the 36-year-old, who completed a career grand slam at the Masters in April and th
  
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• Rory McIlroy named Sports Personality of the Year at emotional ceremony

  18-12-2025 22:54
  Masters champion is first golfer in 36 years to claim awardKildunne finishes second in vote and Norris thirdRyder Cup side win team award and Wiegman coach prizeA full-throated “Rory roar” reverberated around MediaCity in Salford as Rory McIlroy became the first golfer in 36 years to win the BBC Sports Personality of the Year award – and tie a bow on a year for the ages.It was a fitting reward for the 36-year-old, who completed a career grand slam at the Masters in April and th
  
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• McIlroy wins Sports Personality of the Year 2025

  18-12-2025 22:08 via bbc.com
  Rory McIlroy is crowned BBC Sports Personality of the Year for 2025 after clinching the career Grand Slam and playing a key role in Europe's Ryder Cup win.
  
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• Team Europe voted BBC Sports Personality Team of the Year

  18-12-2025 22:00 via bbc.com
  Team Europe win BBC Sports Personality Team of the Year 2025 following Ryder Cup victory in New York.
  
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• Rory McIlroy breaks down on stage live on air in emotional SPOTY interview

  18-12-2025 21:30 via express.co.uk
  Rory McIlroy struggled to hold back tears at BBC Sports Personality of the Year, giving an emotional speech at the ceremony
  
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• Shane Lowry fumes that Rory McIlroy is treated different to other golf stars

  18-12-2025 15:06 via express.co.uk
  Shane Lowry has spoken out about Rory McIlroy being treated differently to other golf stars.
  
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• Rory McIlroy’s SPOTY snub as he U-turns on attending ‘popularity contest’

  18-12-2025 15:00 via express.co.uk
  Rory McIlroy is the bookies' favourite to win BBC Sports Personality of the Year and plans to attend the ceremony, despite previously dismissing the award.
  
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• BBC Sports Personality of the Year: why each shortlisted contender should win

  18-12-2025 07:00
  From Hannah Hampton to Lando Norris, our experts give their view on why each nominee is a worthy winnerNo sporting event in 2025 gripped England quite like the Lionesses’ Euros success and that euphoria would not have happened without Hannah Hampton’s saves. Long before Hampton dived the correct way to stop two Spain penalties in the final, including one from the world’s best player Aitana Bonmatí, she had produced heroics, without which the team would have flown home di
  
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• Curse of Spoty? Rory McIlroy and golf could miss out again to Kelly or Norris

  17-12-2025 18:00
  Annual jamboree can spring surprises and Masters champion could be at risk of repeating 2014 disappointmentIt has been a 2025 for the ages for Rory McIlroy. He cemented his legacy by completing a career grand slam with victory at the Masters. Then he carried Europe on his back at the Ryder Cup, defying the venom and spite of a braying Maga crowd. Now, though, he has one final devilish sandtrap to navigate: the curse of golf at the BBC’s Sports Personality of the Year award.Only twice in th
  
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• Heartwarming drama based on the best-selling novel

  17-12-2025 07:00 via bbc.co.uk
  A boy, born with facial differences, enters a mainstream school for the first time. Drama.
  
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• Sir Nick Faldo skewers LIV Golf and rips apart two stars for taking 'boatload of cash'

  16-12-2025 21:57 via express.co.uk
  Sir Nick Faldo has launched a scathing attack on LIV Golf, calling players the 'luckiest golfers in the world'.
  
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• Innovation, evolution, revolution - golf's new faces championing change

  16-12-2025 07:07 via bbc.com
  With an influx of new people at the head of the sport's most important bodies, the groundwork is being laid for rapid change, writes Iain Carter.
  
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• Scheffler joins Woods with fourth PGA Tour award

  15-12-2025 20:20 via bbc.com
  Scottie Scheffler becomes just the second man after Tiger Woods to win the PGA Tour's player of the year award for four seasons in a row.
  
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• It’s Lionesses v Red Roses v Rory’s Europe as BBC names Spoty team of year shortlist

  15-12-2025 10:22
  Public vote will decide winner among back-to-back European champions, Rugby World Cup winners and Team EuropeEngland’s Lionesses are up against their rugby union counterparts, the Red Roses, and Europe’s winning Ryder Cup side on the shortlist for team of the year at the BBC’s Sports Personality of the Year award.For the first time the BBC have swerved having to make the call themselves by making the team award a public vote, with the winners to be announced live at the ceremon
  
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• As Sudan burns, the NBA’s embrace of the UAE shows how sport enables atrocity

  13-12-2025 10:00
  While UAE-backed forces are accused of mass killings in Sudan, the NBA is deepening its partnership with the controversial Gulf state. This is what sportswashing looks likeAs paramilitary fighters from the brutal Rapid Support Forces (RSF) overran the largest city in western Sudan – carrying out mass executions, rapes and ethnic cleansing with weapons supplied by the United Arab Emirates – the NBA’s annual in-season tournament, the Emirates NBA Cup, tipped off on Halloween nigh
  
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• Guz Khan's modern-day Christmas story for the whole family

  13-12-2025 07:00 via bbc.co.uk
  The Farooqi family have a chaotic Christmas in Lapland after a surprise bonus for Dad.
  
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• Sports Personality of the Year 2025: Lionesses square off on six-strong shortlist

  11-12-2025 09:17
  Chloe Kelly and Hannah Hampton make the shortlistMcIlroy, Littler, Norris and Kildunne also up for awardThe England teammates Chloe Kelly and Hannah Hampton are up against one another for the BBC Sports Personality of the Year award on a shortlist that includes Lando Norris, Rory McIlroy, Luke Littler and Ellie Kildunne.Kelly and Hampton were at the centre of England’s penalty shootout win over Spain in the Euro 2025 final, with Kelly scoring the winning spot-kick after Hampton had made tw
  
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• 2028 Open moved to August to avoid Olympics clash

  08-12-2025 14:51 via bbc.com
  The 156th Open Championship will be held in August 2028 to avoid clashing with the Olympic golf tournament at the Los Angeles Games.
  
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• LIV hope for rankings 'solution' by 2026 season

  08-12-2025 13:00 via bbc.com
  LIV Golf are optimistic that the tour will secure official world golf ranking points for players in 2026.
  
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• Matsuyama wins play-off at Hero World Challenge

  07-12-2025 23:58 via bbc.com
  Japan's Hideki Matsuyama beats Sweden's Alex Noren in a one-hole play-off to win his second Hero World Challenge title in Albany.
  
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• England's Owen wins Legends finale in Mauritius

  07-12-2025 15:19 via bbc.com
  Greg Owen's birdie on the 18th pips Jeev Milkha Singh and Darren Fichardt to the MCB Mauritius Legends title by one stroke.
  
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• Neergaard-Petersen holds nerve to win Australian Open

  07-12-2025 11:59 via bbc.com
  Denmark's Rasmus Neergaard-Petersen beats Cameron Smith by one shot to claim his first DP World Tour title.
  
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• Rasmus Neergaard-Petersen conjures 18th hole miracle at Australian Open to break Cameron Smith’s heart

  07-12-2025 08:18
  Dane makes stunning up-and-down on final hole to beat AustralianRory McIlroy finishes 14th but says it has been an ‘amazing week’Cameron Smith has come up just short in his bid for a coveted maiden Australian Open title as Denmark’s Rasmus Neergaard-Petersen made an up-and-down for the ages on the final hole at Royal Melbourne.The pair were tied at 15-under coming to the par four-18th on Sunday and it looked as though Smith was in the box seat when he landed his second shot on
  
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• What led to the tragic death of Friends star, Matthew Perry?

  07-12-2025 06:55 via bbc.co.uk
  Documentary investigating the events in the lead-up and the woman at the centre of the case
  
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• McIlroy nine back after bizarre banana skin mishap

  06-12-2025 12:24 via bbc.com
  Rory McIlroy is nine shots behind leader Rasmus Neergaard-Petersen ahead of the final day of the Australian Open at Royal Melbourne.
  
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• Rory McIlroy's relationships and Erica Stoll 'realisation' after filing for divorce

  06-12-2025 08:00 via express.co.uk
  Masters champion Rory McIlroy's love life has come under the spotlight throughout his golf career.
  
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• Rory McIlroy’s Australian Open on a slippery slope after bizarre banana mishap

  06-12-2025 06:25
  World No 2 hits double bogey after playing under peelMcIlroy five-under after third round at Royal MelbourneThe luck of the Irish has deserted Rory McIlroy, with Royal Melbourne tossing up a banana peel in the latest obstacle to his second Australian Open title.The world No 2 was hoping to maintain the momentum of three birdies late in his second round when he arrived on course for an early tee time on Saturday, seven shots off the pace. Continue reading...
  
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• Dustin Hoffman stars in this classic romantic-comedy

  06-12-2025 01:45 via bbc.co.uk
  An aimless college graduate finds himself torn between his older lover and her daughter.
  
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• McIlroy makes Australian Open cut with late birdies

  05-12-2025 10:18 via bbc.com
  Rory McIlroy makes three birdies in his last four holes in the second round to make the cut for the weekend at the Australian Open at Royal Melbourne.
  
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• ‘We want tree’: Luton go green with recyclable kit and trees for every goal

  04-12-2025 15:40
  The League One club have teamed up with sustainable sportswear brand Reflo to do their bit for the planetBy The Football MineWhen Gideon Kodua came off the bench and scored a 92nd-minute winner for Luton Town in their seven-goal thriller against Forest Green Rovers in the FA Cup last month, the impact was felt far beyond Kenilworth Road. The 4-3 win did not just take Luton into the second round of the competition, but it ensured that 8,000 trees will be planted in Uganda over the next few months
  
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• McIlroy produces 'rollercoaster' opening round

  04-12-2025 10:37 via bbc.com
  Rory McIlroy describes his one-over par round of 72 at the Australian Open at Royal Melbourne as a "rollercoaster".
  
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• Kai Trump makes career switch as announcement made after disastrous pro golfing debut

  04-12-2025 10:10 via express.co.uk
  US President Donald Trump's granddaughter, Kai has stepped into the new role following her LPGA Tour debut last month.
  
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• Robbie Savage takes on his first football manager job

  04-12-2025 07:00 via bbc.co.uk
  Robbie Savage takes on his first football manager job, but will he regret it? 
  
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• Rory McIlroy mania hits Melbourne as fans skip school and work on ‘special day’ | Jack Snape

  04-12-2025 02:10
  The Northern Irishman’s appeal was clear at the Australian Open with queues forming at the crack of dawn to catch a glimpse of the golf starOrganisers didn’t have to wait long to feel the full impact of Rory McIlroy’s appearance at the Australian Open on Thursday. Two thousand fans were waiting outside at Royal Melbourne at 6.30am, eager to get to the 10th tee for the Northern Irishman’s first swing at Australia’s premier tournament in a decade.Agitation was buildin
  
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• Rory McIlroy given bleak warning as Nick Faldo delivers grim verdict on Masters winner

  03-12-2025 20:16 via express.co.uk
  Rory McIlroy finally won the Masters in April to complete the career Grand Slam.
  
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• Blinded in one eye but facing McIlroy in Australia

  03-12-2025 07:29 via bbc.com
  Little over a year ago, Jeff Guan thought he would never play professionally again. Now he is set to line up in the same Australian Open field as Rory McIlroy.
  
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• Jack Sparrow and Henry Turner search for the trident of Poseidon

  03-12-2025 02:40 via bbc.co.uk
  Young Henry Turner seeks out Jack Sparrow to help him locate Poseidon's trident.
  
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• New LIV Golf star who snubbed PGA Tour speaks out after replacing Ryder Cup legend

  02-12-2025 19:35 via express.co.uk
  Laurie Canter has returned to LIV Golf's Majesticks GC franchise, replacing Henrik Stenson after the Ryder Cup icon was relegated following his worst season
  
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• Woods laments slow recovery and has no return date

  02-12-2025 17:47 via bbc.com
  Tiger Woods says his recovery from disc replacement surgery has been "slow" as he nears 18 months out of the sport.
  
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