{"id":6576,"date":"2025-09-07T22:56:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-07T22:56:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/6576\/"},"modified":"2025-09-07T22:56:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-07T22:56:08","slug":"conor-mckeon-box-office-rory-mcilroy-treats-irish-open-gallery-to-his-greatest-hits-album","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/6576\/","title":{"rendered":"Conor McKeon: Box-office Rory McIlroy treats Irish Open gallery to his Greatest Hits album"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Spectators celebrate as Rory McIlroy celebrates his eagle putt on the 18th green in the Amgen Irish Open at The K Club. Photo: Richard Heathcote\/Getty Images\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/GettyImages_2234153354.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)\">Spectators celebrate as Rory McIlroy celebrates his eagle putt on the 18th green in the Amgen Irish Open at The K Club. Photo: Richard Heathcote\/Getty Images<\/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)\">Give him this, the man is box office. At 5.13 pm today, Rory McIlroy stood over a putt 27 feet 10 inches in length on The K Club\u2019s 18th green, needing eagle to force a play-off to win his second Irish Open and spare us another in the curious line of unheralded Swedish winners.<\/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)\">Approximately eight seconds later, the entire place went balubas. Apoplectic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Spectators celebrate as Rory McIlroy celebrates his eagle putt on the 18th green in the Amgen Irish Open&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6577,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[7277,61,60,1393,1394,112],"class_list":{"0":"post-6576","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-conor-mckeon","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland","11":"tag-irish-open","12":"tag-rory-mcilroy","13":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6576","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=6576"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6576\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}