Hints and tips:
...Werner and FSG founder John Henry were already investors in TMRW Sports....
...The launch of TGL, the new golf league backed by Tiger Woods and Rory McIlroy, may be delayed after heavy rain caused the roof of the new purpose-built arena in Florida to collapse....
...Resource-rich Qatar and Saudi Arabia have also joined the party since John Malone’s Liberty Media bought F1 almost seven years ago in an $8bn deal....
...In that context, John Textor’s decision to invite offers for the LDLC arena seems to buck that trend....
...Fenway Sports Group has signed up to enter a Boston-based team in TGL, the new virtual golf league backed by Tiger Woods and Rory McIlroy. The competition is due to launch in January....
...They include John Henry’s Fenway Sports Group, owner of Liverpool FC, and Philadelphia 76ers co-owner David Blitzer. TMRW didn’t disclose financial details of the fundraising....
...Another is the golfer Rory McIlroy....
...“Are we to feel sad if John Grisham gets $50,000 less for his next book?” asked Thad McIlroy, a publishing industry analyst. “Are there any authors who won’t be able to be published? Nope....
...Mr McIlroy said on Wednesday he was confident the Irish public would understand his decision not to go....
...Rob Minto John Burn-Murdoch FT...
...The other wall features photographs of him with the Queen, Pope John Paul II, Tony Blair, Vladimir Putin and David Cameron....
...John Pyle, vice-chairman of Wentworth Residents Association, said they looked forward to working with the club to “finalise” the details....
...Imagine Janet Yellen as Rory McIlroy, a nine-iron in her hands, measuring up her shot on to the green....
...They are all in the best traditions of sports broadcasting, like Vin Scully, John Miller and Jim Palmer are to baseball and John Arlott, Johnners, Bloers, even Geoffrey Boycott were and are to cricket....
...All of this may explain why Rory McIlroy is the top player on the tour: the Northern Irishman’s healthy lead in the tee-to-green rankings more than offsets a 40th place for his green play, giving him the...
...“The average age of avid and regular golfers continues to rise,” says John Bushell, the sports research company’s chief executive....
...Conlumino says golf is becoming more fashionable and cool, with younger participants such as Rory McIlroy....
...John Gallagher is a right-handed Scottish professional who grips the club with the left hand below the right....
...This could suit svelte competitors along the lines of a Rory McIlroy or a Tiger Woods but I hate to think what will happen as pudgier players of the Kevin Stadler or John Daly ilk bend over their putts....
...Young Rory McIlroy’s ego continues to expand, exponentially, week by week. Lee Westwood’s shoulders get ever squarer....
...Several other golf courses, including that at the Lough Erne Hotel and Golf Resort in County Fermanagh, where US open champion Rory McIlroy is the touring professional, have seen the companies that own them...
...correspondent, Sky News Julia Farron, for services to ballet Stuart Hall, sports broadcaster Barbara Hulanicki, founder, Biba Lorraine Kelly, for services to charity and the armed forces MEMBER, MBE Rory McIlroy...
...John Green, head of global business development at Investec and a former managing director of its African operations, believes those investing in Africa need to have a long-term horizon....
...Rory McIlroy, the 21-year-old Ulsterman, appears very special, his first round at The Open merely the latest manifestation of his talent....
...We’d go to Saturday matches together in the glory days of the late 1950s and early 1960s and I can still remember how the unstoppable Jimmy McIlroy took us to every title going,” he added....
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