{"id":121198,"date":"2025-09-05T06:23:06","date_gmt":"2025-09-05T06:23:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/121198\/"},"modified":"2025-09-05T06:23:06","modified_gmt":"2025-09-05T06:23:06","slug":"late-bogeys-dip-rory-mcilroy-to-opening-71-at-irish-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/121198\/","title":{"rendered":"Late bogeys dip Rory McIlroy to opening 71 at Irish Open"},"content":{"rendered":"

STRAFFAN, Ireland — Rory McIlroy<\/a> bogeyed two of his last three holes and faded to a 1-under 71 in the first round of the Irish Open on Thursday in his latest homecoming.<\/p>\n

The world No. 2, who attracted the biggest galleries of the day at The K Club, was looking to sharpen his game a few weeks out from the Ryder Cup at Bethpage Black, where the Northern Irishman is expected to be Europe’s key player once again.<\/p>\n

McIlroy said he was encouraged by how he played — with birdies on four of his first nine holes after starting at No. 10 — and performed “better than what the score reflects.” His finish hurt him most, missing the green at Nos. 7 and 8 and failing to get up and down for par.<\/p>\n

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“Game feels pretty good,” McIlroy said, adding: “Just a matter of being more efficient with the scoring.”<\/p>\n

McIlroy, who was in Northern Ireland in July for The Open at Royal Portrush, was five strokes off the clubhouse lead held by Nacho Elvira<\/a>, Thorbj\u00f8rn Olesen<\/a> and Romain Langasque<\/a>.<\/p>\n

They were one shot ahead of Bernd Wiesberger<\/a>, Daniel Brown<\/a> and Adrien Saddier<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Ireland’s Shane Lowry<\/a>, another member of Europe’s Ryder Cup team, was playing in front of his home crowd and birdied three of his last six holes to shoot 69.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"STRAFFAN, Ireland — Rory McIlroy bogeyed two of his last three holes and faded to a 1-under 71…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":121199,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[443],"tags":[49,48,622,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-121198","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-golf","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121198"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121198\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/121199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}