This year looked like the same old Rory story Eighteen years ago, half his lifetime away, Rory McIlroy made his debut as a professional golfer at the British Masters at the Belfry, Sutton Coldfield. The Northern Irish teenager began with a respectable round of 69 and finished 42nd to earn a shade over £10,000. He said he would spend his first pay check on taking his then girlfriend to the cinema and put the rest towards buying a house near his mother “so she can still do my washing.” Late last