Tee Times Spain Golf: Rory McIlroy Winner of BMW PGA Championship (Wentworth Club, May 25, 2014)
Tee Times Spain Golf: Strokes of Gold of McIlroy (Videos) – This is how he won the BMW PGA Championship at Wentworth Club.
Rory McIlroy was victorious at Wentworth by only a stroke. These were the last two with Pablo Larrazabal as a witnesse of the exception, taken from a bunker on the 18th and the birdie putt that gave him his sixth win in the Tour, twelfth in his career. Two strokes are worth a treasure.
Bunker shot on 18th hole:
Winning Putt:
Rory McIlroy’s victory in numbers: Accumulated more than 18 million euros in the Tour.
The European Tour each week gives us the numbers for the champion for his victory. This time is Rory McIlroy, former world number one, who has won the BMW PGA Championship, the most important circuit, that has taken place at the Wentworth Club event. These are some of those numbers:
- It’s his sixth Tour win, in 134 events played, and the twelfth International win;
- Total of 1,295,825 euros in the Race to Dubai;
- Collected 1,712,191 points in the Ryder classification;
- His first victory since he managed the HSBC Golf Championship Abu Dhabi in late 2012;
- He becomes the first player from Northern Ireland to win the BMW PGA Championship. In 1958 was won by the last Irish, Harry Bradshaw;
- The seven handicap strokes with which it began the competition are equivalent to the greatest comeback in the history of the League established in 2010 by Simon Khan;
- His first victory on the European Tour in England and the first on European soil;
- It’s win #50 of Northern Ireland in the history of the European Tour;
- With the 791,660 euros obtained it exceeds 18 million in profits in the Tour (total of: 18,083,948 euros).
Source: Opengolf.es
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