{"id":8002,"date":"2025-07-20T08:36:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-20T08:36:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/8002\/"},"modified":"2025-07-20T08:36:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-20T08:36:09","slug":"golf-live-rory-mcilroy-in-weird-open-moment-as-bryson-dechambeau-aims-fiery-rant-golf-sport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/8002\/","title":{"rendered":"Golf LIVE: Rory McIlroy in weird Open moment as Bryson DeChambeau aims fiery rant | Golf | Sport"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rory McIlroy was caught up in <a data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/sport\/golf\/2084201\/rory-mcilroy-open-shot-portrush-hidden-ball\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">one of the weirdest moments in Open history<\/a> during his third round when he unearthed a buried ball while taking a shot.<\/p>\n<p>The Grand Slam champion found himself in the rough following a wayward tee shot on the 11th hole as he chased Scottie Scheffler and Matt Fitzpatrick.<\/p>\n<p>McIlroy made his way back onto the fairway with ease but looked baffled when a second ball pinged out of the rough.<\/p>\n<p>Sky Sports commentator Nick Faldo reacted: &#8220;Oh my goodness, there was a ball underneath his, the things you see.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;That&#8217;s got to be a right, hasn&#8217;t it? It doesn&#8217;t count as two shots? What are the odds on that? A member&#8217;s ball, that is unbelievable. Boink.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rory McIlroy was caught up in one of the weirdest moments in Open history during his third round&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8003,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[566],"tags":[64,63,6933,755,9921,756,85,1742],"class_list":{"0":"post-8002","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-bryson-dechambeau","11":"tag-golf","12":"tag-golf-section","13":"tag-rory-mcilroy","14":"tag-sports","15":"tag-the-open"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8002","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=8002"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8002\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}