{"id":838023,"date":"2026-07-31T11:19:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-31T11:19:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/838023\/"},"modified":"2026-07-31T11:19:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-31T11:19:10","slug":"mayo-took-a-leaf-out-of-mcilroys-book-to-end-75-year-famine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/838023\/","title":{"rendered":"Mayo took a leaf out of McIlroy&#8217;s book to end 75-year famine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n                Mayo took a leaf out of McIlroy&#8217;s book to end 75-year famine<br \/>\n                July 30, 2026<\/p>\n<p>                    <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/52a18220-8a5a-4d02-8087-98eb301f65ad.jpg\"\/><br \/>Mayo&#8217;s Jordan Flynn celebrates during the All-Ireland SFC final against Kerry at Croke Park \u00a9INPHO\/Ryan Byrne<\/p>\n<p>Mayo selector Colm Boyle says the new All-Ireland champions took some inspiration from Rory McIlroy in their breakthrough triumph.<\/p>\n<p>McIlroy\u2019s long pursuit of a Masters title came to an end last year before and the Holywood man would make it back-to-back Green Jackets in April.<\/p>\n<p>Having lost out in 11 All-Ireland SFC finals since 1951, Mayo drew on McIlroy\u2019s feats at Augusta National for inspiration in the weeks leading up to Sunday\u2019s historic victory at Croke Park.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAndy (Moran) actually referenced it before the semi-final; it\u2019s a phrase from Rory McIlroy, from one of his Masters wins,\u2019 <a href=\"https:\/\/extra.ie\/2026\/07\/29\/sport\/gaa\/mayo-rory-mcilroy-mantra-gaa\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Boyle is quoted saying by Extra.ie<\/a>. \u2018He (McIlroy) just said, \u2018Look, no matter what, I\u2019m going to keep swinging today\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNow did we swing a bit too much at times on Sunday? I think our two-point shots were four from 14, so maybe we shouldn\u2019t have swung at certain times, but that\u2019s a mindset thing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe boys had the confidence to go for the shot. When you\u2019re under pressure in front of 82,300 people, and you\u2019re still willing to take on the two-point shot, that\u2019s the key thing. And obviously when you can nail them, it\u2019s great.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On his home county ending their 75-year famine for the Sam Maguire Cup, Boyle added: \u201cThis was always going to happen,\u2019 he said of breaking the famine. \u2018It was going to happen at some stage. I know people think that it\u2019s never going to happen. But I said it to Andy a good while ago: Mayo are going to win the All-Ireland at some stage. If we don\u2019t do it as a management team, someone will do it after us.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>            <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-lang=\"en\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tweet<\/a><\/p>\n<p>    Most Read Stories<\/p>\n<p>            <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mayo took a leaf out of McIlroy&#8217;s book to end 75-year famine July 30, 2026 Mayo&#8217;s Jordan Flynn&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":838024,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[443],"tags":[49,48,622,82],"class_list":["post-838023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-golf","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/838023","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=838023"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/838023\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/838024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=838023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=838023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=838023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}