{"id":396337,"date":"2026-04-13T14:23:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T14:23:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/396337\/"},"modified":"2026-04-13T14:23:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T14:23:09","slug":"donald-trump-brands-rory-mcilroy-a-legend-after-second-masters-triumph-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/396337\/","title":{"rendered":"Donald Trump brands Rory McIlroy a \u2018legend\u2019 after second Masters triumph \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">United States president <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/donald-trump\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/donald-trump\">Donald Trump<\/a> called <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/rory-mcilroy\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/rory-mcilroy\">Rory McIlroy<\/a> a \u201clegend\u201d as he congratulated him on winning his second <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/the-masters\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/the-masters\">Masters<\/a> title.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">McIlroy held on for a one-shot victory over America\u2019s world number one Scottie Scheffler, becoming only the fourth player in the tournament\u2019s 90-year history to win successive titles at Augusta.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Trump, who has played golf with McIlroy in the past, used his Truth Social platform to send a message to the 36-year-old.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">\u201cCongratulations to Rory McIlroy on another Great Championship, The Masters!\u201d Trump wrote. \u201cHe performed tremendously under intense pressure, something which few people would be able to even think about doing. With each year, Rory is becoming more and more a LEGEND!\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">McIlroy\u2019s sixth major puts him level with Nick Faldo and one beyond the great Spaniard Seve Ballesteros, who won five. Next in the 36-year-old\u2019s sights on the all-time list are Harry Vardon, Gene Sarazen, Bobby Jones, Sam Snead and Arnold Palmer (all seven).<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Trump then added a reference to the Cadillac Championship, which is expected to be McIlroy\u2019s next appearance when it starts at Trump National Doral in Miami at the end of the month.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">\u201cI look forward to watching him compete in two weeks at Doral,\u201d Trump wrote.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">\u201cThe quality of Professional Golfers today has become extraordinary, each and every one of them. They should all be proud of the way they played at The Masters this weekend!\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"United States president Donald Trump called Rory McIlroy a \u201clegend\u201d as he congratulated him on winning his second&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":396338,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[969,61,60,1394,112,160609],"class_list":["post-396337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-donald-trump","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-rory-mcilroy","tag-sports","tag-the-masters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396337","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=396337"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396337\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/396338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=396337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=396337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=396337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}