{"id":449861,"date":"2026-05-15T07:55:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T07:55:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/449861\/"},"modified":"2026-05-15T07:55:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T07:55:09","slug":"st-rory-mcilroy-all-roughed-up-after-failing-driving-test-in-us-pga","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/449861\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018S**t\u2019 \u2013 Rory McIlroy all roughed up after failing driving test in US PGA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">\nMasters champion pays the price for failing to avoid Aronimink\u2019s heavy rough\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Rory McIlroy wasn't at his best during the first round of the 108th US PGA Championship at Aronimink. Photo: Jamie Squire\/Getty\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/1778831709_191_GettyImages_2276261400.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)\">Rory McIlroy wasn&#8217;t at his best during the first round of the 108th US PGA Championship at Aronimink. Photo: Jamie Squire\/Getty<\/p>\n<p>From Brian Keogh in Philadelphia<\/p>\n<p>Today at 08:42<\/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)\">Rory McIlroy did not even try to hide his disappointment after suffering \u2018rough\u2019 justice and finishing with four bogeys in a row to open with a title-damaging 74 in the 108th US PGA Championship at Aronimink.<\/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)\">Asked to describe his four-over-par opening round, he wasted little energy. \u201cShit,\u201d he said glumly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Masters champion pays the price for failing to avoid Aronimink\u2019s heavy rough Rory McIlroy wasn&#8217;t at his best&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":449862,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[7938,61,60,1394,112],"class_list":["post-449861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-brian-keogh","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-rory-mcilroy","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449861","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=449861"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449861\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/449862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=449861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=449861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=449861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}