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Rory McIlroy has already built up quite a career.
He has won three of the four major championships and four majors overall. He also has a deal with Nike rumored to be worth as much as $200 million, as he was tasked, at the time, with replacing Tiger Woods as the face of Nike golf.
He also has the makings of a pretty fantastic lifestyle off the course, with a lavish house in Florida, a $400,000 car, and much more.
Tony Manfred contributed to this report.
McIlroy hasn’t won a major since 2014, but he still earned over $20 million on the course in 2016 and 2017 between the PGA Tour and the European Tour.
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That included $10 million alone for winning the 2016 FedEx Cup.
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He also already ranks seventh on the career money list with more than $70 million in tournament winnings.
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And that doesn’t include the millions he makes in appearance fees. In 2012, McIlroy raised his tournament appearance fee to $2 million. It seems safe to assume that number is even higher now.
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It is estimated that he makes $35 million a year in endorsements alone.
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His biggest deal: a monster Nike contract rumored to be worth $200+ million.
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Tiger Woods’ first Nike deal was only worth $40 million.
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As the Nike Golf torch was seemingly passed from Woods to Rors, they did commercials together.
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He also replaced Tiger on the most recent cover of the EA Sports PGA Tour video game.
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With all this money, he has been able to spend a little more on his haircuts.
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Rory’s other deals with Bose and Omega make him golf’s highest-paid player with approximately $50 million in earnings in 2017.
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He’s not afraid to spend his money. He bought a gorgeous $9.5 million house in Florida in 2012.
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It was a pretty great bachelor pad. There’s an incredible pool.
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And a game room.
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The house is good for his job, too. It’s right next to the PGA National golf course and there’s a workout room.
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Rory also put in a trophy room, with plenty of room for future hardware.
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The house he sold in Northern Ireland was being rented for $21,000 a week in 2014.
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He recently bought a house on Palm Jumeirah, the man-made island in Dubai, for an undisclosed amount.
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- An aerial view of The Palm Island Jumeirah in Dubai and some residential homes that have been completed, November 8, 2007. REUTERS/Steve Crisp
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He was spotted driving a $400,000 Lamborghini Aventador.
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But in some ways, he is just like us.
After winning the PGA Championship, he took a private jet to New York to celebrate.
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The tabloids in the U.K. are all over him. They once reported that he bought a $2 million Bugatti, which he called “bollocks.”
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Another tabloid fixation: his former relationship with tennis player Caroline Wozniacki.
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On New Year’s Eve 2014, they got engaged.
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But then, all of a sudden, he broke it off in May of 2014. They had already sent out wedding invitations.
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Rory had his best season after the breakup in 2014, winning $1.66 million at the British Open and $1.8 million at the PGA Championship in 2014.
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His dad won $170,000 too. When Rory was 15 his dad placed a bet that he would win the Open before he turned 25.
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Rory has also gotten into impeccable physical shape, putting on 20 pounds of muscle since 2010.
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Rory has since settled down with Erica Stoll
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The pair got in some PDA prior to his first round at the 2017 Masters.
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The pair got married in 2017 at Ashford Castle in Ireland, a castle that has been referred to as the “most luxurious castle in the world.”
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The wedding reportedly cost £200,000 (US$260,000) and included a special performance from Stevie Wonder.
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Other attendees included Niall Horan from One Direction, actor Jamie Dornan, Ed Sheeran, and golfers Sergio Garcia, Shane Lowry and Paul McGinley.
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The couple honeymooned at the Sandy Lane Hotel in Barbados, one of the most exclusive resorts in the world.
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When he is not playing golf, he still knows his way around the soccer pitch.
McIlroy’s golf game has been quiet since getting married, thanks to a nagging rib injury. But he recently got his first win in a Tour event since 2016 when he won the Arnold Palmer Invitational where he took home $1.6 million.
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But McIlroy once said he has enough money now that he no longer cares about how much he wins. All he cares about now are wins, especially at the majors.
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