Michael Bannon is a golf coach from

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. He is the current coach of the 2011

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, 2012 and 2014

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, 2014

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, and 2025

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champion

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, and worked with him from a young age. Bannon was the

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at Bangor Golf Club, and previously at Holywood Golf Club, where he worked with McIlroy. As a golfer, Bannon competed in the 1997

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. Michael Bannon left his job at Bangor Golf Club to work full-time for world number one Rory McIlroy in October 2012.

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