{"id":379454,"date":"2026-04-03T05:17:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T05:17:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/379454\/"},"modified":"2026-04-03T05:17:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T05:17:10","slug":"teen-star-dylan-holmes-shrugs-off-rory-mcilroy-comparisons-ahead-of-west-of-ireland-defence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/379454\/","title":{"rendered":"Teen star Dylan Holmes shrugs off Rory McIlroy comparisons ahead of West of Ireland defence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Dylan Holmes after his victory at the West of Ireland last year. Photo: Ben Brady\/Inpho\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/424e8dfe_48e7_4e66_80de_15.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Dylan Holmes after his victory at the West of Ireland last year. Photo: Ben Brady\/Inpho<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">It\u2019s 20 years since Rory McIlroy won back-to-back West of Ireland titles, but Greystones\u2019 Dylan Holmes is just hoping to take his game to the next level when he begins his title defence at Rosses Point today.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">The 102nd edition of the Connolly Motor Group-sponsored season-opener promises to deliver another quality champion on a Co Sligo links that\u2019s been considerably enhanced by Mackenzie &amp; Ebert over the past 18 months.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dylan Holmes after his victory at the West of Ireland last year. Photo: Ben Brady\/Inpho It\u2019s 20 years&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":379455,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[7938,61,60,43,1394],"class_list":{"0":"post-379454","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ireland","8":"tag-brian-keogh","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-rory-mcilroy"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379454","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=379454"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379454\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/379455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=379454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=379454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=379454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}