Rory McIlroy solidified himself as the biggest name in golf this weekend when he won the Masters for a second year in a row and is worth an estimated $200 million. But McIlroy came from much humbler beginnings.
He grew up in a modest, semi-detached house in Holywood, County Down, Northern Ireland, with two parents who quietly dismantled their own lives to build his. While his mom, Rosie, spent her nights packaging rolls of tape at a 3M factory in Bangor, his father, Gerry, was stringing together three jobs: cleaning showers in the morning, bartending at Holywood Golf Club through the afternoon, and returning to the sports club bar in the evening. Gerry worked an estimated 100 hours a week, according to The Times.
