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Rory glory at US Open

Updated on: 21 June,2011 08:10 AM IST  | 
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Rory McIlroy could easily become the highest-earning UK sportsman of all time, experts believe

Rory glory at US Open

Rory McIlroy could easily become the highest-earning UK sportsman of all time, experts believe.
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Nigel Currie, director of sports marketing agency Brand Rapport, said: "He has the potential to do what Roger Federer, Michael Schumacher and Tiger Woods have done.


Northern Ireland's Rory McIlroy celebrates after winning the 111th US
Open on Sunday. PIC/AFP


If he was to dominate golf, like he could do, for a number of years, he could get up towards the one billion-dollar mark. Lennox Lewis and David Beckham are the highest-earning sports stars from the UK so far, but McIlroy could easily pass them."




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