{"id":21051,"date":"2015-05-04T14:46:41","date_gmt":"2015-05-04T14:46:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/mcilroy-and-faldo-among-the-richest-european-athletes\/"},"modified":"2015-05-04T14:46:41","modified_gmt":"2015-05-04T14:46:41","slug":"mcilroy-and-faldo-among-the-richest-european-athletes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/mcilroy-and-faldo-among-the-richest-european-athletes\/","title":{"rendered":"McIlroy and Faldo among the richest European athletes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" alignleft size-full wp-image-4323\" src=\"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.holaincompany.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Jugadores_faldo-y-mcilroy.jpg\" border=\"0\" style=\"float: left;margin-right:10px\" width=\"620\" height=\"388\" srcset=\"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Jugadores_faldo-y-mcilroy.jpg 620w, https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Jugadores_faldo-y-mcilroy-300x188.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/>Rory McIlroy, the world&#8217;s No. 1 golfer, and Sir Nick Faldo, who is retiring from competitive golf this July, are two of the top ten richest sportsmen in Britain and Ireland according to the annual list published by the Sunday Times.<\/p>\n<p>McIlroy, 25, and Faldo, 57, a six-time Grand Slam tournament winner, are eighth on the list of British and Irish millionaires with a fortune of \u00a338 million.<\/p>\n<p>Two-time F1 world champion Lewis Hamilton tops the list with \u00a388 million earned this year followed by Manchester United striker Wayne Rooney with \u00a372 million.<\/p>\n<p>Another well-known billionaire in the world of sport is Jenson Button, F1 driver who is third with a personal fortune of \u00a371 million. The report, compiled by the Sunday Times Magazine, reveals the fortunes of the 1,000 richest people in Britain and the 250 richest people in Ireland. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rory McIlroy, the world&#8217;s No. 1 golfer, and Sir Nick Faldo, who is retiring from competitive golf this July, are two of the top ten richest sportsmen in Britain and Ireland according to the annual list published by the Sunday Times. McIlroy, 25, and Faldo, 57, a six-time Grand Slam tournament winner, are eighth on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":4324,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_focus_keyword":""},"categories":[125],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21051","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21051"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21051\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}