Holywood sensation Rory McIlroy should clearly win BBC Spoty… but if he doesn’t, who cares?

5 golfers we can’t believe have never won the BBC SPOTY award

This year it will change – surely? Because, as a sport, golf has something of a grudge about the BBC Sports Personality of the Year award. Common wisdom has it that the game suffers from being consistently snubbed by the Beeb. Before we look at the five golfers who surprisingly didn’t win the big gong, let’s take a look at other evidence of golf being nudged into the wings. Let’s start, in fact, with Ian Poulter’s explosive reaction when Matt Fi…

Holywood sensation Rory McIlroy should clearly win BBC Spoty… but if he doesn’t, who cares?

If there’s any sense out there, Rory McIlroy really should be crowned BBC Sports Personality of the Year on Thursday evening.