HOLYWOOD, Northern Ireland — Two decades before Rory McIlroy’s career-defining triumph, when he finally conquered his Masters ...

Rory McIlroy grew up in Holywood, Northern Ireland, and learned to play golf at Holywood Golf Club. I visited and took the ...

Here's what to know about McIlroy's roots, from his hometown and upbringing, to his young golf career before he emerged as ...

Rory McIlroy had a singular pursuit. Visit his hometown of Holywood, in Northern Ireland, and you leave knowing the truth of ...

McIlroy's local course, Holywood Golf Club, is on the slopes of the Holywood hills. McIlroy turned professional in 2007 and won his first major in 2011 at the US Open, and in 2012 he won the PGA ...

Holywood Golf Club members went nuts after Rory McIlroy won the Masters. @vincekearney/X Rory McIlroy went through all the emotions throughout the 2025 Masters but finished with a victory. Getty ...

Golf As Rory McIlroy tries to end major drought, his hometown waits and hopes. Holywood has experienced the ups and downs as McIlroy has gone through 37 major tournaments without a win.

Wind through a quiet, middle-class neighborhood, past the McIlroy family home, until the road narrows and a large rock wall gives way to Nuns Walk. At the end of that steep path looms Holywood Golf ...

Holywood: Where Rory McIlroy takes the biscuit. The Holywood star's face made it on to biscuits in time for the morning rush [BBC] Holywood is a coastal town, not far from Belfast.

It might have been fitting if someone from Holywood won this year’s U.S. Open at Los Angeles Country Club. But Rory McIlroy, born in the Northern Ireland town of Holywood, is not having that ...

HOLYWOOD, Northern Ireland – At the club in Northern Ireland where Rory McIlroy learned his golf as a kid, they went wild from the very first birdie. Many pints were sunk and songs sung, including an ...

Hollywood could be Holywood bound to cash in on the success of golfing megastar Rory McIlroy, according to entertainment insiders. A number of Northern Irish and cross-channel film-makers and ...