{"id":126600,"date":"2025-09-07T13:02:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-07T13:02:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/126600\/"},"modified":"2025-09-07T13:02:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-07T13:02:07","slug":"hidalgo-1-stroke-back-after-record-12-birdies-at-irish-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/126600\/","title":{"rendered":"Hidalgo 1 stroke back after record 12 birdies at Irish Open"},"content":{"rendered":"

STRAFFAN, Ireland — \u00c1ngel Hidalgo<\/a> made 12 birdies to match a European Tour single-round record and move into second place with a 9-under 63 in the third round of the Irish Open on Saturday, while Adrien Saddier<\/a> of France took the tournament lead with a 68.<\/p>\n

Fan favorite Rory McIlroy<\/a> also stayed in contention after the Northern Irishman shot a bogey-free 68. The world No. 2 is four strokes behind Saddier’s total of 15-under 201 at The K Club.<\/p>\n

McIlroy is tied for fourth with Joakim Lagergren<\/a> after the Swede lost his overnight lead by shooting a 73. Lagergren’s inconsistent round included four birdies, three bogeys and a double bogey.<\/p>\n

Alfredo Garcia<\/a>-Heredia<\/a> is third and three shots back after he made two eagles in his 67.<\/p>\n

Hidalgo’s big day included seven birdies in a row to finish one stroke behind Saddier. The Spaniard became the ninth player to make a dozen birdies in a single round at a European tour event.<\/p>\n

“I really felt for a few moments I was playing on the PlayStation, to be honest. Every single shot was directly to the pin,” Hidalgo said.<\/p>\n

The only other player to make 12 birdies at The K Club was Darren Clarke<\/a>, who did so while establishing a course-record 60 in the 1999 European Open.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"STRAFFAN, Ireland — \u00c1ngel Hidalgo made 12 birdies to match a European Tour single-round record and move into…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":126601,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[443],"tags":[49,48,622,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-126600","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\/126600","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=126600"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126600\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/126601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}