Rory McIlroy News

KAVARNA : Former US Open champion Rory McIlroy is set to split with his Irish-based management company and organise his own business affairs, his close friend Graeme McDowell has confirmed.

Ken Venturi walks on the 18th green of the renovated Olympic Club golf course, one the S.F. native knew well.

Professional golfers are not, and rarely ever have been, elite athletes in the traditional sense.

Rory McIlroy is making another change to his management group. He's going start his own company after a short relationship with Horizon Sports Management.

An Uzbekistan national living in Idaho has been arrested on federal charges that he gave support, cash and other resources to help a recognized terrorist group in his home country plan a terrorist attack.

On a night of celebration, one of the embarrassing moments at the World Golf Hall of Fame induction ceremony was early in the program, when Hall of Fame members in attendance were recognized.

Tiger Woods shared the cover for Tiger Woods PGA Tour 14 with the late European legend Seve Ballesteros, and top-rated player Rory McIlroy.

According to a ranking established by the journal SportPro, Neymar Neymar quadrupled -Video is the sportsman with the highest commercial side.

Brazilian footballer Neymar has been ranked as the most marketable athlete on the planet again after topping SportsPro 's annual 50 Most Marketable Athletes list, produced in association with Eurosport , for a second successive year.

Call me a worrywart, but I'm beginning to feel like the guy who goes to Vegas and rolls snake eyes all week.

Not his water ball on the famed island 17th hole that led to double-bogey Sunday.

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Roberto Castro made a debut he won't soon forget in The Players Championship, opening with a 9-under 63 Thursday to tie the course record at the TPC Sawgrass and build a three-shot lead over Rory McIlroy and other early starters.

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It was obviously meant to be. Wigan win the FA Cup and their biggest fan in golf, David Lynn, climbs up the Players leaderboard in sympathy.

It went quietly overlooked because of the star-studded leaderboard midway through The Players Championship, but a small Swedish contingent on the PGA Tour should be getting everyone's attention by now.

Masters champion Adam Scott is set to play golf's World Cup and the Australian Masters, both to be played at Royal Melbourne.

May 10, 2013; Ponte Vedra Beach, FL, USA; Rory McIlroy , Steve Stricker and Adam Scott walk the 17th fairway during the second round of the Players Championship at TPC Sawgrass.

Matt Kuchar hits from a sand trap on the ninth hole during the second round of The Players championship golf tournament at TPC Sawgrass, Friday, May 10, 2013 in Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla.