{"id":116200,"date":"2025-09-05T11:24:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-05T11:24:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/116200\/"},"modified":"2025-09-05T11:24:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-05T11:24:07","slug":"irish-open-2025-live-leaderboard-tee-times-and-prize-money-with-rory-mcilroy-and-shane-lowry-in-action-at-the-k-club-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/116200\/","title":{"rendered":"Irish Open 2025 LIVE: Leaderboard, tee times and prize money with Rory McIlroy and Shane Lowry in action at The K Club"},"content":{"rendered":"

Rory McIlroy returns to action this week at the 2025 Amgen Irish Open at The K Club.<\/p>\n

It will be the 70th staging of the event, which Masters champion McIlroy won back in 2016.<\/p>\n

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McIlroy will be looking to put last year’s Irish Open disappointment behind him this weekendCredit: Getty\"NEWCASTLE,<\/a><\/p>\n

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Reigning champion Rasmus Hojgaard has opted against defending his titleCredit: Getty<\/p>\n

McIlroy is one of several high-profile stars in the field in Kildare and joins fellow home favourites Shane Lowry<\/a> and Padraig Harrington in carrying the Irish hopes at the latest event on the DP World Tour<\/a>.<\/p>\n

They help make up a line-up which includes 18 major championship wins.<\/p>\n

Rasmus Hojgaard, who beat McIlroy to glory in last year’s event at Royal County Down, has opted to skip the event ahead of this month’s Ryder Cup<\/a>.<\/p>\n

There’s a three-way tie for the lead following the first round with Nacho Elvira, Thorbjorn Olesen and Romain Langasque topping the standings at six-under.<\/p>\n

Irish Open: Date and how to follow<\/p>\n

The 2025 Amgen Irish Open is taking place from Thursday, September 4 to Sunday, September 7 at The K Club.<\/p>\n

It will be the third time the course in County Kildare has hosted the event after doing so in 2016 and 2023.<\/p>\n

The first of those saw McIlroy claim a three-shot victory for his only Irish Open title.<\/p>\n

The K Club was also the venue for Team Europe’s victory at the 2006 Ryder Cup<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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McIlroy won his only previous Irish Open title at The K Club back in 2016Credit: PA<\/p>\n

The action will get up and running at 7:30am UK time each day.<\/p>\n

Sky Sports Golf will broadcast the live action throughout the tournament with their coverage starting at 12:30pm each day.<\/p>\n

Fans can also keep across the action with live updates on talkSPORT during all four days.<\/p>\n

To tune in through the website, click HERE for the live stream<\/a> or keep up to date with talkSPORT.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Alternatively, you can listen via the talkSPORT app<\/a>, on DAB digital radio, through your smart speaker and on 1089 and 1053 AM.<\/p>\n

Irish Open: Field and leaderboard<\/p>\n

The latest leaderboard from The K Club can be found here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

As mentioned, McIlroy and Lowry are the star names at The K Club but the field is packed with quality.<\/p>\n

Five-time major winner Brooks Koepka is also in action.<\/p>\n

Other LIV Golf stars Tyrrell Hatton, Patrick Reed, Tom McKibbin and Adrian Meronk are teeing it up alongside European Masters winner Thriston Lawrence and PGA Tour ace Jhonattan Vegas.<\/p>\n

Luke Donald, Marco Penge and Danny Willett are also in the field.<\/p>\n

This year’s event has a total purse of \u00a34.5million on offer to the field.<\/p>\n

In 2024, Hojgaard scooped \u00a3800,000 by taking home the title after finishing one stroke clear of McIlroy.<\/p>\n

2025 Irish Open prize money<\/p>\n

Winner: \u00a3800,000<\/p>\n

2nd: \u00a3517,000<\/p>\n

3rd: \u00a3297,000<\/p>\n

4th: \u00a3235,000<\/p>\n

5th: \u00a3182,000<\/p>\n

Irish Open: What has been said? <\/p>\n

McIlroy shot a one-under 71 in the first round of the Irish Open and will hope for better moving forward in his home tournament.<\/p>\n

He said: “It’s great every time I come back and play in this tournament. <\/p>\n

“The crowds are unbelievable and it’s obviously a pleasure to play in front of them. They create a great atmosphere.<\/p>\n

“It felt like I played better than what the score reflects. Felt like I hit the ball well, drove the ball well.<\/p>\n

“Just had that disappointing finish, bogeying two of the last three holes.<\/p>\n

“But actually pretty encouraged [by] how I played. Just didn’t score as well as I wanted to.<\/p>\n

“Just a matter of being more efficient with the scoring.”<\/p>\n

England’s Daniel Brown was one shot behind a three-way tie for the lead following the close on Thursday.<\/p>\n

The 30-year-old, winner of this season’s BMW International Open, said: “First nine, played really well. <\/p>\n

“Had a little sort of wobble for three or four holes but then managed to play nice coming in the last two or three holes.<\/p>\n

“The greens are soft so if you do hit fairways you can be a little bit more aggressive and try and go at some flags.”<\/p>\n

Last 10 Irish Open winners<\/p>\n

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2024 – Rasmus Hojgaard<\/p>\n

2023 – Vincent Norman<\/p>\n

2022 – Adrian Meronk<\/p>\n

2021 – Lucas Herbert<\/p>\n

2020 – John Catlin<\/p>\n

2019 – Jon Rahm<\/p>\n

2018 – Russell Knox<\/p>\n

2017 – Jon Rahm<\/p>\n

2016 – Rory McIlroy<\/p>\n

2015 – Soren Kjeldsen<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rory McIlroy returns to action this week at the 2025 Amgen Irish Open at The K Club. It…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":115156,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[55376,43452,5904,2623,3027,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-116200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-amgen-irish-open","tag-dp-world-tour","tag-golf","tag-rory-mcilroy","tag-shane-lowry","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116200","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116200"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116200\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/115156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}