{"id":7343,"date":"2025-09-08T08:34:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-08T08:34:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/7343\/"},"modified":"2025-09-08T08:34:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-08T08:34:07","slug":"brian-keogh-special-k-display-by-rory-mcilroy-seals-his-epic-irish-open-fairy-tale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/7343\/","title":{"rendered":"Brian Keogh: Special K display by Rory McIlroy seals his epic Irish Open fairy-tale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Rory McIlroy after sinking a birdie putt on the 18th green during the final round of the Amgen Irish Open. Photo: Sam Barnes\/Sportsfile\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/4f7c824b-9c3d-443b-8ab3-a071f94b77f8.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 after sinking a birdie putt on the 18th green during the final round of the Amgen Irish Open. Photo: Sam Barnes\/Sportsfile<\/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 does not presume to be as \u201cinevitable\u201d as Scottie Scheffler but after adding another chapter to his annus mirabilis with a fairy-tale play-off win in the Amgen Irish Open, the USA has every reason to fear the Holywood wunderkind at Bethpage Black later this month.<\/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)\">Four strokes behind France\u2019s Adrien Saddier overnight, the Masters champion (36) overcame an opening bogey with three birdies in his next four holes, then made a loop-the-loop six-footer for birdie at the 13th to keep his title hopes alive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rory McIlroy after sinking a birdie putt on the 18th green during the final round of the Amgen&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7344,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[7938,61,60,1393,1394,1395,112],"class_list":{"0":"post-7343","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-brian-keogh","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland","11":"tag-irish-open","12":"tag-rory-mcilroy","13":"tag-shane-lowry","14":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7343","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=7343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7343\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}