{"id":122603,"date":"2025-09-06T07:05:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-06T07:05:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/122603\/"},"modified":"2025-09-06T07:05:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-06T07:05:09","slug":"rory-mcilroy-second-round-interview-leaderboard-scores-results-dp-world-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/122603\/","title":{"rendered":"Rory McIlroy second round, interview, leaderboard, scores, results, DP World Tour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rory McIlroy carded a bogey-free 66 in the second round of the Irish Open at the K Club on Friday to move into a tie for third-place at seven under-par.<\/p>\n<p>The five-time major winner cut a frustrated figure in the first round after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com.au\/golf\/irish-open-golf-2025-first-round-scores-leaderboard-rory-mcilroy-calls-for-common-sense-after-slow-play-warning-leader-australians\/news-story\/11ef5b510eaddf13de34d0a37c79093a\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">his group were given a slow play warning in County Kildare<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>But he appeared happier on Friday, with McIlroy five shots behind leader Joakim Lagergren, who posted an outstanding round of 62.<\/p>\n<p>\ufeffWatch every round The 2025 Ryder Cup exclusively LIVE on Fox Sports, available on Kayo Sports | 26-28 September | New to Kayo? <a href=\"https:\/\/kayosports.com.au?pg=golf&amp;extcamp=fsaeditoriallinkgolf-edt-fsp-lnk-awr-grc-glf-kyo&amp;channel=fsa&amp;campaign=fsacontra&amp;voucher=\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Join now and get your first month for just $1.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was good,\u201d McIlroy told Sky Sports. \u201cI felt like I hit the ball pretty similarly to yesterday, maybe give myself a few more chances with the approach shots.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI didn\u2019t make a bogey, which was nice, a couple of nice par saves on the back nines and finished well with a couple of birdies.\u201d <\/p>\n<p><img class=\"i-amphtml-fill-content i-amphtml-replaced-content\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/1756769048_562_poster-fallback.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The Northern Irishman added: \u201cI\u2019m really pleased with the day\u2019s work and it keeps me within touching distance going into the weekend.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Northern Ireland&#8217;s Rory McIlroy acknowledges the gallery on the 18th green during the second round of the Irish Open golf tournament, Friday, Sept. 5, 2025, at The K Club in Straffan, Ireland. (Brian Lawless\/PA via AP)Source: AP<\/p>\n<p>Sweden\u2019s Lagergren leads by one stroke from France\u2019s Adrien Saddier, with McIlroy saying: \u201cThe two boys are ahead of the pack but I feel like I\u2019m close enough that if I have a good weekend I can chase them down.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Lagergren, meanwhile, said: \u201cI played really well. My putter was very hot, I holed a lot of putts today. I didn\u2019t really have my A-game yesterday. I worked with my coach and obviously found something.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis course is really tricky. I can\u2019t really dream of shooting 10 under at the K Club.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rory McIlroy carded a bogey-free 66 in the second round of the Irish Open at the K Club&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":122604,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[566],"tags":[86329,64,63,86328,3193,2057,755,29991,86327,3583,5492,756,2643,84836,85,4200],"class_list":["post-122603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-approach-shots","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-back-nines","tag-cameron-smith","tag-europe","tag-golf","tag-golf-tournament","tag-joakim-lagergren","tag-northern-europe","tag-northern-ireland","tag-rory-mcilroy","tag-sky-sports","tag-slow-play-warning","tag-sports","tag-sweden"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122603","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=122603"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122603\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/122604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}