
With Rory McIlroy being the odds-on favorite to win 2025 BBC Sports Personality of the Year golf's long wait for a winner will surely end, and deservedly so after what's been a monumental year.
It's tough to nail down the specific criteria for a BBC SPOTY winner as ultimately it's decided by a public vote, but the BBC Sport website says the aim is that the trophy goes to "the sportsperson whose sporting actions have most captured the UK public's imagination during 2025."