section_path: Professional career/Awards
section_name: Awards
paragraph_text: Awards
  
  At the 2005 Belfast Telegraph Sports Awards, McIlroy received the Young Player of the Year award. He also won the 2008 George Best Breakthrough Prize and the 2009 Belfast Telegraph Sports Star of the Year award.
  
  In recognition of his win at the 2011 U.S. Open, McIlroy was named the 2011 RTÉ Sports Person of the Year and BBC Northern Ireland Sports Personality of the Year. He also received the Laureus World Sports Award for Breakthrough of the Year, and was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 2012 New Year Honours, for services to sport.
  
  In 2012, McIlroy won the PGA Player of the Year and PGA Tour Player of the Year awards, as well as the Vardon Trophy and Byron Nelson Award. He was also voted the European Tour Golfer of the Year and European Tour Players' Player of the Year in 2012. He repeated this award sweep in 2014. Also in 2014, he was named RTÉ Sports Person of the Year for a second time, and BBC Northern Ireland Sports Personality of the Year for a third time.
  
  McIlroy has won the Mark H. McCormack Award for leading the Official World Golf Ranking for the most weeks in a calendar year three times: 2012, 2014 and 2015. In 2019, he won the PGA Tour Player of the Year award and the Vardon Trophy for the third time. In 2022, McIlroy won the Vardon Trophy for a fourth time. His scoring average of 68.67 was the lowest since Tiger Woods' 68.05 in 2009. In 2024, McIlroy won the European Tour Player of the Year award, now renamed the Seve Ballesteros Award, for the fourth time in his career.
  
  At the 2005 Belfast Telegraph Sports Awards, McIlroy received the Young Player of the Year award. He also won the 2008 George Best Breakthrough Prize and the 2009 Belfast Telegraph Sports Star of the Year award.
  
  In recognition of his win at the 2011 U.S. Open, McIlroy was named the 2011 RTÉ Sports Person of the Year and BBC Northern Ireland Sports Personality of the Year. He also received the Laureus World Sports Award for Breakthrough of the Year, and was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 2012 New Year Honours, for services to sport.
  
  In 2012, McIlroy won the PGA Player of the Year and PGA Tour Player of the Year awards, as well as the Vardon Trophy and Byron Nelson Award. He was also voted the European Tour Golfer of the Year and European Tour Players' Player of the Year in 2012. He repeated this award sweep in 2014. Also in 2014, he was named RTÉ Sports Person of the Year for a second time, and BBC Northern Ireland Sports Personality of the Year for a third time.
  
  McIlroy has won the Mark H. McCormack Award for leading the Official World Golf Ranking for the most weeks in a calendar year three times: 2012, 2014 and 2015. In 2019, he won the PGA Tour Player of the Year award and the Vardon Trophy for the third time. In 2022, McIlroy won the Vardon Trophy for a fourth time. His scoring average of 68.67 was the lowest since Tiger Woods' 68.05 in 2009. In 2024, McIlroy won the European Tour Player of the Year award, now renamed the Seve Ballesteros Award, for the fourth time in his career.