{"id":128787,"date":"2025-09-08T12:29:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-08T12:29:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/128787\/"},"modified":"2025-09-08T12:29:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-08T12:29:07","slug":"rory-mcilroy-sends-video-to-walker-cup-team-makes-bold-ryder-cup-claim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/128787\/","title":{"rendered":"Rory McIlroy Sends Video to Walker Cup Team, Makes Bold Ryder Cup Claim"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"tagStyle_1mfvp8o-o_O-style_mxvz7o-o_O-style_12bse5w-o_O-style_6s3kpz\" data-mm-id=\"_2bc6tq4mk\">Ahead of their quest to win <a class=\"tagStyle_1mfvp8o-o_O-style_aoxits\" href=\"https:\/\/www.si.com\/golf\/2025-walker-cup-epic\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the Walker Cup at Cypress Point<\/a>, Team Europe received a surprise message.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"tagStyle_1mfvp8o-o_O-style_mxvz7o-o_O-style_12bse5w-o_O-style_6s3kpz\" data-mm-id=\"_m8lozpp2l\">It came from Rory McIlroy.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"tagStyle_1mfvp8o-o_O-style_mxvz7o-o_O-style_12bse5w-o_O-style_6s3kpz\" data-mm-id=\"_k5zilgl0d\"><a class=\"tagStyle_1mfvp8o-o_O-style_aoxits\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcsports.com\/golf\/news\/rory-mcilroy-to-gb-i-walker-cup-team-please-beat-them-were-going-to-beat-them-at-bethpage\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">According to Golf Channel<\/a>, the five-time major champion, who was on Europe\u2019s losing Walker Cup team in 2007, sent a minute-long video to the 2025 Great Britain and Ireland squad. And in the motivational speech, McIlroy referenced winning the 2012 Ryder Cup, known as the \u201cMiracle at Medinah,\u201d on U.S. soil, something Europe has a chance to do in both the Walker and Ryder Cups this year.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Sports Illustrated\u2019s Free Golf Newsletters. dark. Sign Up Now. SI Golf Newsletters<\/p>\n<p class=\"tagStyle_1mfvp8o-o_O-style_mxvz7o-o_O-style_12bse5w-o_O-style_6s3kpz\" data-mm-id=\"_47eyp4m0u\">\u201cAs someone who played a Walker Cup and wasn\u2019t able to quite get it done, and then to go on to play Ryder Cups and be able to beat the Yanks in their own backyard, nothing feels better,\u201d said McIlroy, who will play in his eighth Ryder Cup later this month at Bethpage Black in New York.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"tagStyle_1mfvp8o-o_O-style_mxvz7o-o_O-style_12bse5w-o_O-style_6s3kpz\" data-mm-id=\"_kwc1nt2iy\">McIlroy capped his message with a bold prediction:<\/p>\n<p class=\"tagStyle_1mfvp8o-o_O-style_mxvz7o-o_O-style_12bse5w-o_O-style_6s3kpz\" data-mm-id=\"_e26iokjbc\">\u201cPlease beat them because I know we\u2019re going to beat them at Bethpage,\u201d the Northern Irishman said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"tagStyle_1mfvp8o-o_O-style_mxvz7o-o_O-style_12bse5w-o_O-style_6s3kpz\" data-mm-id=\"_4kw0zqf2z\">Entering the final day of the biennial matches, the U.S. has a one-point lead over Europe. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ahead of their quest to win the Walker Cup at Cypress Point, Team Europe received a surprise message.\u00a0&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":128788,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[443],"tags":[49,48,622,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-128787","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\/128787","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=128787"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128787\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/128788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}