{"id":124865,"date":"2025-09-09T09:55:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-09T09:55:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/124865\/"},"modified":"2025-09-09T09:55:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T09:55:07","slug":"mcilroys-irish-open-victory-proves-costly-for-william-hill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/124865\/","title":{"rendered":"McIlroy&#8217;s Irish Open victory proves costly for William Hill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  McIlroy was forced to eagle the 72nd hole\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.heraldscotland.com\/sport\/uk-sport\/25447462.rory-mcilroy-wins-second-irish-open-play-off-triumph-joakim-lagergren\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">to take it to a play-off<\/a> after\u00a0Joakim Lagergren\u2019s own stunning eagle at the 16th. After the first two extra holes were tied in birdie fours, Lagergren found the water hazard third time around to allow McIlroy to win it with two putts.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Read more:\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  In pre-event betting, McIlroy was the third-worst result for William Hill, behind only Shane Lowry and runaway liability Brooks Koepka. Koepka\u00a0would have accounted for roughly twice the losses of Lowry and four times those of McIlroy.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  However, McIlroy\u2019s surge during the final round and dramatic playoff triumph turned him into the only losing in-play outcome, capping off a tough weekend for William Hill.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Team Europe will be hoping McIlroy carries this form into\u00a0New York later this month, and he\u2019s currently 4\/1 to be the top European points scorer in Luke Donald&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heraldscotland.com\/topics\/ryder-cup\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ryder Cup<\/a> team.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Read more:\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  \u201cRory McIlroy\u2019s victory at the K Club may have thrilled fans, but it certainly didn\u2019t help our bottom line,&#8221; spokesman Lee Phelps said. &#8220;The Masters champion was incredibly well-backed from the outset, attracting almost a quarter of all pre-tournament stakes and dominating the in-play market as well.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  \u201cHe was the third-worst result for us before a ball was hit and by far the biggest losing outcome once the action got underway \u2013 no other player even came close to matching his in-play volume. It was a dramatic win, but one that left us licking our wounds.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  \u201cThose who backed McIlroy for success in County Kildare will be hoping he takes that form to Bethpage at the Ryder Cup; we have him as the joint-favourite with Jon Rahm at 4\/1 to be Europe\u2019s top points scorer.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"McIlroy was forced to eagle the 72nd hole\u00a0to take it to a play-off after\u00a0Joakim Lagergren\u2019s own stunning eagle&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":124866,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[5904,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-124865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-golf","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124865","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=124865"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124865\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/124866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}