{"id":120039,"date":"2025-09-05T05:23:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-05T05:23:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/120039\/"},"modified":"2025-09-05T05:23:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-05T05:23:09","slug":"first-round-scores-leaderboard-rory-mcilroy-calls-for-common-sense-after-slow-play-warning-leader-australians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/120039\/","title":{"rendered":"First round scores, leaderboard, Rory McIlroy calls for \u2018common sense\u2019 after slow play warning, leader, Australians"},"content":{"rendered":"

Rory McIlroy called on rules officials to use \u201ccommon sense\u201d after his group was given a slow play warning during the first round of the Irish Open on Thursday.<\/p>\n

McIlroy, who was playing with Thriston Lawrence and Kristoffer Reitan, was frustrated after the warning at the K Club. The world No.2 finished the day five shots off the pace.<\/p>\n

Dane Thorbjorn Olesen, France\u2019s Romain Langasque and Spain\u2019s Ignacio Elvira all hit six under-par 66 rounds to share the lead.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn all honesty I felt a little rushed out there for the last 12 holes,\u201d said the Northern Irishman, a five-time major winner who will also compete at this year\u2019s Australian Open.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe got put on the clock pretty early, and then the first official went away and then we were put on the clock for the last three holes to try to make time up.\u201d<\/p>\n

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McIlroy is the star attraction of the tournament and his group attracted big galleries and several camera crews, with the Northern Irishman feeling officials should use discretion when it comes to pace to play.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s hard because you feel a bit rushed, you\u2019re playing some tough holes and our group has to deal with a lot more than any other group on the course,\u201d McIlroy said.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo it\u2019s understandable that we lose time and I feel like any time I either come back to Europe or I play in some of these like one, two, three in the world type groups, we\u2019re always put on the clock for that reason.<\/p>\n

\u201cI got a little frustrated the last few holes because I feel like it always happens and I don\u2019t think they use sort of common sense in terms of… well of course we\u2019re going to lose ground because we\u2019re going to have to wait on crowds and wait on the two camera crews that are out there.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s just a lot more going on with our group than any of the other groups on the course, and sometimes I feel like they have to give us a little bit of leeway and use a bit of common sense.\u201d<\/p>\n

Rory McIlroy acknowledges the gallery during the Irish Open golf tournament, Thursday, Sept. 4, 2025, at The K Club in Straffan, Ireland. (Brian Lawless\/PA via AP)Source: AP<\/p>\n

McIlroy was not helped by the struggles of South African Lawrence (81) and Norway\u2019s Reitan (77), who both hit their ball into the water on the seventh hole.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn my mind I\u2019m like \u2018should I go first to save a bit of time\u2019 but not really, you can still wait your turn,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt wasn\u2019t really that, I guess it was more I just felt because it\u2019s happened to me quite a lot before in these sorts of big groups who want to come back to Europe and play, I felt like I just let it agitate me a little bit.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201c…I felt like I played better than what the score reflects. I hit the ball well, I drove the ball well, just had that disappointing finish, bogeying two of the last three holes.\u201d <\/p>\n

England\u2019s Daniel Brown, Austria\u2019s Bernd Wiesberger and France\u2019s Adrien Saddier each posted rounds of 67.<\/p>\n

Irishman Shane Lowry, who, along with McIlroy, is a member of Europe\u2019s Ryder Cup team, carded three birdies in his last six holes to stay in touch with a 69 at the 7,441 yards K Club course near Dublin, where par is 72.<\/p>\n

Five-time major winner Brooks Koepka matched McIlroy\u2019s 71.<\/p>\n

David Micheluzzi and Elvis Smylie were the best placed Australians, carding one-over 73s while European Ryder Cup captain Luke Donald finished his first round with a five-over par 77.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rory McIlroy called on rules officials to use \u201ccommon sense\u201d after his group was given a slow play…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":120040,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[566],"tags":[6934,2620,64,63,31403,1208,755,84834,84835,51335,756,9248,84837,1656,84836,2020,85],"class_list":["post-120039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-adrien-saddier","tag-agence-france-presse","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-dublin","tag-england","tag-golf","tag-ignacio-elvira","tag-laighin","tag-luke-donald","tag-rory-mcilroy","tag-rules-officials","tag-ryder-system","tag-shane-lowry","tag-slow-play-warning","tag-spain","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120039","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120039"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120039\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/120040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}