{"id":45269,"date":"2025-08-05T12:08:17","date_gmt":"2025-08-05T12:08:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/45269\/"},"modified":"2025-08-05T12:08:17","modified_gmt":"2025-08-05T12:08:17","slug":"rory-mcilroys-good-luck-charm-from-new-zealand-for-masters-triumph","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/45269\/","title":{"rendered":"Rory McIlroy\u2019s good-luck charm from New Zealand for Masters triumph"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cIt\u2019s a mark of prestige, we call it mana, basically … it was a pretty cool thing for John to do and obviously it means a lot to Rory … it was a nice little story that we had a little bit of Kiwi on him when he was at Augusta.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve spoken to him several times about his trip down there and he absolutely loved it, and I know he\u2019s keen to go back at some point if he can during his busy schedule, but [it\u2019s] great to have a little piece of New Zealand that he loved. I mean, the New Zealand golf public was absolutely buzzing just to have him in the country.\u201d <\/p>\n

\"GolfGolf buddies Ryan Fox (from left), Jimmy Dunne, Rory McIlroy, Jim Rohrstaff and Ric Kayne. Team New Zealand (Fox and Rohrstaff) earned the victory at Tara Iti.<\/p>\n

McIlory is set to return Downunder later this year for the Australian Open at Royal Melbourne in the first week of December and is among several PGA Tour talents set to line up in Australia this summer.<\/p>\n

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\u201cRory seems to love our part of the world. I say our part, that\u2019s the Australasia [region]. He had a great time at Tara Iti last year,\u201d Fox said.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve already talked to him about coming down to play the Aussie Open, and he can\u2019t be more excited about playing Royal Melbourne in a tournament, so that\u2019s pretty cool.\u201d<\/p>\n

Fox himself is among those to have signed on to play the Australian PGA Championship at Royal Queensland the week prior.<\/p>\n

While he has so far only signed on for the one event, he, too, could yet join the field for the Australian Open.<\/p>\n

\u201cNow, with the PGA Tour season how it\u2019s been, it\u2019s a lot easier to make that decision to come back,\u201d Fox said of returning to play in Australia for the first time since 2022.<\/p>\n

\u201cKnowing I\u2019ve got status next year, knowing I can pick my schedule for the PGA Tour next year and I\u2019ve got a nice little eight-week break, I really wanted to come back and play.\u201d<\/p>\n

Christopher Reive<\/a> joined the Herald sports team in 2017, bringing the same versatility to his coverage as he does to his sports viewing habits.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cIt\u2019s a mark of prestige, we call it mana, basically … it was a pretty cool thing for…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":45270,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[566],"tags":[39409,39410,64,63,39018,39414,580,5587,39415,755,39406,3262,39411,39417,36440,24495,39408,39405,3127,39412,39404,39413,85,9501,35147,39407,39416,3205],"class_list":["post-45269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-17th","tag-attempt","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-charm","tag-colour","tag-for","tag-from","tag-gifted","tag-golf","tag-goodluck","tag-green","tag-jacket","tag-luck","tag-made","tag-masters","tag-mcilroy","tag-mcilroys","tag-new","tag-pendant","tag-rory","tag-same","tag-sports","tag-that","tag-trip","tag-triumph","tag-wore","tag-zealand"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45269","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=45269"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45269\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}