{"id":198039,"date":"2025-12-18T09:24:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-18T09:24:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/198039\/"},"modified":"2025-12-18T09:24:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-18T09:24:07","slug":"mcilroy-loses-out-to-scheffler-in-exhibition-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/198039\/","title":{"rendered":"McIlroy loses out to Scheffler in exhibition event"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scottie Scheffler eclipsed Rory McIlroy in a play-off to win the inaugural Golf Channel Games at Trump National Golf Club Jupiter in Florida.<\/p>\n<p>The unique event pitted the world number one and his team of Keegan Bradley, Sam Burns and Luke Clacton against Masters champion McIlroy and his team of Luke Donald, Shane Lowry and Haotong Li in a series of challenges \u2013 including a relay and timed drive competition.<\/p>\n<p>The American team picked up the first two points with wins in the driving and short game events, before McIlroy&#8217;s squad hit back with victory in the team relay.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\">Par-4 birdie in 28 seconds?!<\/p>\n<p>Absolute chaos at the Optum <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GolfChannel\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@GolfChannel<\/a> Games!<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udcfa Golf Channel \/ USA Network <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/RioPBYHSBu\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/RioPBYHSBu<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 PGA TOUR (@PGATOUR) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PGATOUR\/status\/2001484556700967337\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">December 18, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The fourth event saw Clanton star in the 14-club challenge to put the Americans up 3-1, but a bonus-point win in the final closest-to-the-pin challenge drew McIlroy\u2019s squad level and forced a play-off.<\/p>\n<p>McIlroy and Scheffler squared off again to determine the victor, with Scheffler dropping his shot from 47 yards an inch closer to the hole than his opponent to claim a narrow victory for the Americans.<\/p>\n<p>Watch the RT\u00c9 Sport Awards on Saturday from 8.05pm on RT\u00c9 One and RT\u00c9 Player. Follow a live blog on the RT\u00c9 News App and on rte.ie\/sport. <\/p>\n<p>                    <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Scottie Scheffler eclipsed Rory McIlroy in a play-off to win the inaugural Golf Channel Games at Trump National&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":198040,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":["post-198039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198039","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=198039"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198039\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/198040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}