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."

Only two golfers have won BBC SPOTY - Sir Nick Faldo in 1989 and Dai Rees in 1957, and perhaps the lack of golf on terrestrial TV in the UK has had an impact on the sport's lack of success in this award. You may like

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