{"id":303585,"date":"2025-12-07T17:21:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-07T17:21:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/303585\/"},"modified":"2025-12-07T17:21:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-07T17:21:07","slug":"rory-mcilroy-calls-for-australian-open-rescheduling-for-stronger-field-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/303585\/","title":{"rendered":"Rory McIlroy calls for Australian Open rescheduling for stronger field \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/rory-mcilroy\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/rory-mcilroy\/\">Rory McIlroy<\/a> has called on organisers \u200bof the Australian Open to reschedule the event in an effort to attract a stronger international field to \u200dthe tournament in the future.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The Masters champion was one of the main draws at Royal Melbourne this week and finished in a tie for 14th, eight shots behind winner Rasmus Neergaard-Petersen.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">\u201cI\u2019ve been excited to come back down here for a \u200cwhile, it\u2019s been over 10 years since I played in the Australian Open,\u201d McIlroy said after his final \u2060round.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">\u201cThis is a golf tournament that has got so much potential and I think \u200cit \u200bshowed \u200da little bit of that this week. There\u2019s still a ways to go.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">\u201cI would love to have a few more players come down and play. But it\u2019s hard. There\u2019s three tournaments going on in the \u2060schedule this week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">\u201cThere needs to be conversations had with people much more important than me \u2060that set the schedules and do \u2060all that sort of stuff.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">\u201cHopefully the Australian Open can find a date that accommodates everyone and everyone can at least have the option \u200dto come down and play.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The tournament marked the end of a stellar season for the 36-year-old.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">In addition to his long-awaited Masters success, McIlroy won a seventh Race to Dubai title plus the Irish Open and was a member of the European team that successfully defended the Ryder Cup in the U.S. in September.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">\u201cI\u2019m looking forward to a little break,\u201d he said. \u201cI played a pretty heavy schedule \u200cpost the summer, with \u200cthe Irish Open, then the Ryder Cup and then I\u2019ve been globetrotting all over the last couple of months.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">\u201cI\u2019m excited to have little bit of \u200cdowntime, finally reflect on everything, maybe watch a few of the tournaments back. I\u2019ve not really let myself \u2060do that too much.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">\u201cLooking forward to the Christmas break and put the feet up, a few glasses of wine and think back on about what an unbelievable year it\u2019s been.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Meanwhile, Norway\u2019s Krisoffer Reitan won the Nedbank Golf Challenge by one stroke at Gary Player CC in Sun City, South Africa. Tom McKibbin finished in a tie for 16th, 11 shots off the winner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rory McIlroy has called on organisers \u200bof the Australian Open to reschedule the event in an effort to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":303586,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[5904,2623,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-303585","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-golf","9":"tag-rory-mcilroy","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-uk","12":"tag-united-kingdom","13":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303585","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=303585"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303585\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/303586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=303585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=303585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=303585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}