{"id":453775,"date":"2026-03-02T15:35:15","date_gmt":"2026-03-02T15:35:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/453775\/"},"modified":"2026-03-02T15:35:15","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T15:35:15","slug":"mcilroy-confirmed-for-irish-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/453775\/","title":{"rendered":"McIlroy confirmed for Irish Open"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rory McIlroy will be back to defend his Amgen Irish Open title at the Trump International Golf Links &amp; Hotel Doonbeg in County Clare in September.<\/p>\n<p>Last month, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rte.ie\/news\/ireland\/2026\/0226\/1560573-trump-ireland\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">US Ambassador to Ireland Edward Walsh said that American president Donald Trump may be an interested spectator <\/a>at the event given the course is owned and managed by the Trump Organisation.<\/p>\n<p>One person definitely going though is McIlroy, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rte.ie\/sport\/golf\/2025\/0907\/1532262-irish-open-glory-for-mcilroy-after-play-off-drama\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">who won a second home title in dramatic fashion<\/a> at the K Club last year.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\">As we get ready for a play-off at the K Club, Rory McIlroy&#8217;s clutch eagle putt is worth a second, third and even fourth look.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udcfa Watch <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/8XIEOHjQi5\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/t.co\/8XIEOHjQi5<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udcf1Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/KP2vwfqdeg\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/t.co\/KP2vwfqdeg<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/RTESport\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">#RTESport<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ce8dZ8uQNI\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/ce8dZ8uQNI<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 RT\u00c9 Sport (@RTEsport) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RTEsport\/status\/1964725737937613141\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">September 7, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Holywood golfer landed a closing eagle on the 72nd hole to spark a crowd frenzy before going on to defeat Sweden&#8217;s Joakim Lagergren in a play-off.<\/p>\n<p>McIlroy has long been a massive supporter of the event and has been credited with elevating its status on the DP World Tour and helping to secure a more star-studded field.<\/p>\n<p>                    <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rory McIlroy will be back to defend his Amgen Irish Open title at the Trump International Golf Links&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":453776,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[5904,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-453775","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\/453775","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=453775"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453775\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/453776"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=453775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=453775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=453775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}