{"id":371267,"date":"2026-01-15T11:54:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-15T11:54:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/371267\/"},"modified":"2026-01-15T11:54:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T11:54:09","slug":"conor-mckeon-to-trump-or-not-to-trump-there-is-a-moment-of-reckoning-coming-for-irish-golf-fans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/371267\/","title":{"rendered":"Conor McKeon: To Trump or not to Trump? There is a moment of reckoning coming for Irish golf fans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"US president Donald Trump greets spectators by the first hole tee box at 2025 Ryder Cup last September. Photo: Getty\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/372aad2a-28ed-4e85-ae6f-f4b7c96b6640.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)\">US president Donald Trump greets spectators by the first hole tee box at 2025 Ryder Cup last September. Photo: Getty<\/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)\">The most combustible event in Irish sport this year won\u2019t be one of Ireland\u2019s Six Nations games. It won\u2019t be the habitually cantankerous Ulster football final or any of the molten Munster hurling championship fixtures either.<\/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)\">So far as Six One potential goes, it isn\u2019t any of the League of Ireland\u2019s febrile Dublin derbies or a World Cup play-off in March, should we win in Prague, or even \u2013 however unlikely \u2013 a Conor McGregor comeback bout.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"US president Donald Trump greets spectators by the first hole tee box at 2025 Ryder Cup last September.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":371268,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[48001,141,5904,28429,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-371267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-conor-mckeon","tag-donald-trump","tag-golf","tag-irish-open","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371267","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=371267"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371267\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/371268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=371267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=371267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=371267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}