{"id":151202,"date":"2025-09-21T13:13:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-21T13:13:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/151202\/"},"modified":"2025-09-21T13:13:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-21T13:13:08","slug":"ryder-cup-golf-rory-mcilory-and-northern-irelands-stars-have-always-punched-above-their-weight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/151202\/","title":{"rendered":"Ryder Cup golf: Rory McIlory and Northern Ireland&#8217;s stars have always punched above their weight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Graeme McDowell and Rory McIlroy with the Ryder Cup in 2010\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/ttyImages-104718931.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_caption1 beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_secondary beltel-66f0fec7_regular beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_marginleft0 beltel-1d70522a_marginright0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop3 beltel-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Graeme McDowell and Rory McIlroy with the Ryder Cup in 2010<\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_primary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop0 beltel-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Over the course of the Ryder Cup\u2019s 98-year history, only eight Northern Irish players have represented Europe. That doesn\u2019t sound like much, but perhaps the better way to quantify it is through their impact.<\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_primary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop0 beltel-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">For instance, some of the most iconic images from the Ryder Cup have Northern Irish players at the forefront. Darren Clarke celebrating with Lee Westwood at The K Club in 2006. Graeme McDowell rolling in the winning putt at Celtic Manor in 2010. Rory McIlroy shushing the American crowd at Hazeltine in 2016.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Graeme McDowell and Rory McIlroy with the Ryder Cup in 2010 Over the course of the Ryder Cup\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":151203,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[48325,5904,69459,2623,6547,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-151202","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-adam-mckendry","9":"tag-golf","10":"tag-graeme-mcdowell","11":"tag-rory-mcilroy","12":"tag-ryder-cup","13":"tag-sports","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom","16":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151202","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=151202"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151202\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/151203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}