{"id":332135,"date":"2025-12-07T05:31:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-07T05:31:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/332135\/"},"modified":"2025-12-07T05:31:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-07T05:31:10","slug":"rory-mcilroy-cameron-smith-and-adam-scott-scores-results-start-time-how-to-watch-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/332135\/","title":{"rendered":"Rory McIlroy, Cameron Smith and Adam Scott scores, results, start time, how to watch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rory McIlroy is not one to ignore flaws with his own golf game, and he\u2019s given the same honest appraisal for the Australian Open.<\/p>\n<p>He has called on Australian Open organisers to take another look at the date for next year, to avoid events like the Hero World Challenge in the Bahamas, which is also on at the moment and has many of the PGA Tour stars playing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s been absolutely amazing. I\u2019ve been excited to come back down here for a while,\u201d McIlroy told Channel Nine.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cObviously, it\u2019s been over 10 years since I played in the Australian Open and look at the scenes out there this week. The crowds, the golf course, absolutely incredible.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Rory McIlroy finishes his round.\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/7b9c0e64dd211b2ea25f15d4c5b52996f74f6191.jpeg\" height=\"390\" width=\"584\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Rory McIlroy finishes his round.Credit: Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI said at the start of the week, this is a golf tournament that\u2019s got so much potential and I think it showed a little bit of that potential this week. I think there\u2019s still a ways to go, but it\u2019s shaping up to be an amazing finish also. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cObviously, I would love to have a few more players come down and play, but again, it\u2019s hard with \u2026 there are three tournaments going on in the schedule this week.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere needs to be conversations had with people much more important than me that set the schedules and do all that sort of stuff and hopefully the Australian Open can find a date that accommodates everyone, and everyone can at least have the option to come down and play.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rory McIlroy is not one to ignore flaws with his own golf game, and he\u2019s given the same&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":332136,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[566],"tags":[64,63,755,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-332135","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-golf","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332135","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=332135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332135\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/332136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=332135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=332135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=332135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}