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Rory : The Heartache and Triumph of Golf's Most Human Superstar.
'Rory' chronicles the tumultuous life of legendary golfer Rory McIlroy, one of only six male golfers in history to achieve the modern career grand slam. Perfectly timed to the 2026 Master at which McIlroy will defend his title.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781668068809
- Physical Description: 352 pages ; 2 x 15 cm
- Publisher: Canada : Avid Reader / Simon & Schuster, 2026.
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| Immediate Source of Acquisition Note: | Library Bound Incorporated |
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- Simon and Schuster
The definitive biography of the most important, popular, and confounding player of the post-Tiger era, masterfully chronicled by Alan Shipnuck, the bestselling author of Phil and LIV and Let Die.
Rory McIlroy contains multitudes. He can overwhelm a golf course with his transcendent talent and then, at the next tournament, look utterly lost. McIlory is golfâs most eloquent ambassador and a trash-talking troll, sometimes in the same press conference. The child of a working-class family from a small town in a war-torn homeland now commutes to work in his own G-VI and counts billionaires as confidantes. A dozen years ago, McIlroy asked Alan Shipnuck a question about the player he had modeled himself after, Tiger Woods: âWhatâs he really like?â As McIlroy enters the last act of his highly eventful career, this book is a chance to redirect that old question and try to understand a man of deep complexity and contradictions.
McIlroyâs victory at the 2025 Masters packed such an emotional punch because he is golfâs most vulnerable superstar. Across two decades as a pro he has been the anti-Tiger, letting fans into his heart and into his world. When McIlroy collapsed onto the final green at Augusta National, having at last completed the career Grand Slam, golf fans cried along with him because so many saw themselves in his struggles.
But there is much that the public does not know about McIlroy. With reporting chops honed across thirty years on the golf beat, Shipnuck traces McIlroyâs evolution from a young phenom in Northern Ireland to a game-changing force on and off the golf course. Shipnuck has shadowed McIlroy throughout his career and he brings to life all of the heartbreaks and triumphs with thrilling immediacy and unparalleled access. Tabloid romance, bitter business disputes, divisive politickingâit is all part of this portrait of a man in full.
Shipnuck has long been known as the most fearless writer on the golf beat, and he goes deep into McIlroyâs personal history at a time when the spotlight on Rory has never been brighter. This book is squarely in the tradition of bestselling golf biographies like Jeff Benedict and Armen Keteyianâs Tiger Woods and Shipnuckâs own Phil.
