{"id":128531,"date":"2025-09-08T20:34:11","date_gmt":"2025-09-08T20:34:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/128531\/"},"modified":"2025-09-08T20:34:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-08T20:34:11","slug":"rory-mcilroy-wins-irish-open-72nd-hole-eagle-to-force-playoff-video-reaction-highlights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/128531\/","title":{"rendered":"Rory McIlroy wins Irish Open, 72nd-hole eagle to force playoff, video, reaction, highlights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rory McIlroy said he was enjoying a \u201cpretty cool year\u201d after he won the Irish Open in a thrilling playoff against Joakim Lagergren on Sunday for his first tournament triumph since his Masters success in April.<\/p>\n<p>World number two McIlroy had to eagle the 72nd hole just to force a playoff after Lagergren\u2019s own remarkable eagle at the 16th at the K Club near Dublin.<\/p>\n<p>After the first two additional holes were tied in birdie fours, Sweden\u2019s Lagergren found the water third time around to allow McIlroy to win with two putts.<\/p>\n<p>Victory gave Northern Ireland\u2019s McIlroy, four shots off the lead heading into the last round, his second Irish Open title, nine years after his first.<\/p>\n<p>FOX SPORTS, available on Kayo Sports, is streaming The 2025 PGA Tour LIVE &amp; Exclusive | 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=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Join now and get your first month for just $1 &gt;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The 36-year-old became just the sixth man to complete a career Grand Slam of major titles following his Masters triumph at Augusta National.<\/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>McIlroy is warming up for the Ryder Cup at Bethpage Black later this month, when he will be leading Europe\u2019s defence of the trophy they won against the United States in Rome two years ago.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo do what I did earlier in the year and then to come home and win my national Open, no matter what happens for the rest of the year, that\u2019s a pretty cool year \u2013 2025\u2019s going to be one of the best, if not the best, of my career,\u201d said McIlroy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut we\u2019re not finished yet, I\u2019ve got a big week next week at Wentworth (BMW PGA Championship) and then obviously everybody\u2019s looking forward to the Ryder Cup.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>McIlroy, who also triumphed in this event at the same venue in 2016, added: \u201cI just feel so lucky that I get to do this in front of these people.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe support has been amazing all week. So happy I could play the way I did this week and get the win.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Lagergren was bidding for his second European Tour win and first since the 2018 Italian Open, but came up just short despite surging through the field with a six-under 66.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is a tough one to swallow. I really thought I had that out there today,\u201d said the world No. 194.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cObviously posting minus 17 going into the clubhouse, could have been enough.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI played really good in the playoff as well. Hit a solid 5-iron down on the last play, but it got a horrendous bounce. It\u2019s a metre from being dead to the hole. So it\u2019s tough.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Angel Hidalgo, second overnight after Saturday\u2019s superb round of 63, finished in a tie for third on 15-under with Rafa Cabrera Bello, who shot up the leaderboard following a hole-in-one at the third.<\/p>\n<p>A third Spaniard, Angel Ayora, was fifth alongside third-round leader Adrien Saddier.<\/p>\n<p>The 33-year-old Frenchman had been a shot clear of the field after 54 holes but his challenge faded with a final round of 74.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rory McIlroy said he was enjoying a \u201cpretty cool year\u201d after he won the Irish Open in a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":128532,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[566],"tags":[64,63,755,85],"class_list":["post-128531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-golf","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128531","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=128531"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128531\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/128532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}