Everyone's a winner in the McIlroy family! Rory's dad wins £50,000 after placing £200 bet 10 years ago that his son would win the Open by the age of 25 (and Rory picks up a handy £975,000)

Ten years ago, Gerry McIlroy placed a £100 bet at odds of 500/1 that his son would win the Open Championship's Claret Jug by the age of 25. The bet was placed with remarkable prescience in 2004, when Rory was a 15-year-old prodigy. Three friends of Mr McIlroy also bet £100 each (£100 was the most that the bookie's would allow).