Golfer Rory McIlroy has been voted BBC Sports Personality of the Year 2025.
The 36-year-old Northern Irishman achieved golfing immortality in April by completing the career Grand Slam with his first Masters title at Augusta National.
Having won the US Open, The Open and US PGA Championship by 2014, McIlroy had to wait another 11 years to complete the full set of major championships.
In doing so he became the sixth man – and first European – to clinch the Slam, joining Americans Gene Sarazen, Ben Hogan, Jack Nicklaus and Tiger Woods, and South Africa’s Gary Player, in accomplishing the feat.
McIlroy then played a key role in Europe’s first Ryder Cup win in the United States since 2012, contributing three-and-a-half points to his team’s success.