{"id":480079,"date":"2026-03-17T08:44:43","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T08:44:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/480079\/"},"modified":"2026-03-17T08:44:43","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T08:44:43","slug":"the-players-why-rory-mcilroys-poor-title-defence-leaves-questions-over-pga-tour-form-and-schedule-ahead-of-the-masters-sky-sports-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/480079\/","title":{"rendered":"The Players: Why Rory McIlroy&#039;s poor title defence leaves questions over PGA Tour form and schedule ahead of The Masters &#8211; Sky Sports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMi_gFBVV95cUxPOVpPWTNSYUptenpyWVRIdzdmT20xaUxkT1FVYUpERFhfQTZJWXFXUlFiUHp5ejZJTVFEWWdxOWhiNFNBZFBVMzBWeHNTUGhqRnJNaUFhN05kbzJPNWJtallnY25VMzZQZ3c5THVhUWR6VkpRaExzNWU4YW12T3F6UUx0U0hTM3VSN3hKa2ZVbmN6OGh3dHYtbXAzOVVRY042WXlPS0d3SjMwSTNsRlI3RW1UOWI1WUFLeGxQdWZuYm5ubmxXcjNyRERidkxTNkJOZWVHZ0gtZlFPak9WZFNzX1o0T0dhcy1mZm1nOC1SLXlpX0IzRWtsWlFkSHJVdw?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">The Players: Why Rory McIlroy&#8217;s poor title defence leaves questions over PGA Tour form and schedule ahead of The Masters<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;Sky Sports<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMiogFBVV95cUxOOUJKSjhKa3pBbU9ReTNmM3ZoZWRjdk0xUS1FWFk0TS11OVBscXhpcEFvY2hsTGR3dWpTMzRlX3cwWFktSTFJWk5FN2hFZXBFT2NCWDhRS25vdGd3VkRHMW9PNWRLMktuZnVHMDlZNTJ0VG1KMExYX1lRTnM0RHY3TjVnYmNOeWJrN2RmYi14cml2dkhRcHdDbTc1azdTdnVwVVE?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Rory McIlroy will see how \u2018body feels\u2019 and assess schedule before Masters<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;The Guardian<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMiYkFVX3lxTE9wUl9vOGhkZEpOOXBMZzVkYVNSTGprcXZnVERTYjFxdk9Melp4cnBNNjBoQVVyWHpKT1VwajlUME41X2kxYjhPbXV2WThwajhSTkktQThSajhZRmg4cG1BSFRn?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Players Championship: Rory McIlroy fit but off first-round pace at Sawgrass<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;BBC<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMiYkFVX3lxTE4zS1Q1VFQ5UmxTbzVLU213S3RyS1lDVmVWNXVvdDRpZGtvMlZiZ3VoV2NuVmJfWmJJSjZIX2ZjakplMlBOclN1dk9DVTVQOXFaRm1xNFJaUnpGNEJDallCcEJ3?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Players Championship: Rory McIlroy hopeful on Sawgrass after injury<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;BBC<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMipAFBVV95cUxNRklZVERJRDMtc1h1WDFsOHE0SmR0LTg3WndiNkhWcFZnMHp2d0hJU3JKRllPZEUyUFFUNE04ODlLSmhQWWdwazU3ankxRXNkdWlOUi1qZ1FobjhvWE5FN3dqV244NmNsNlNDZzFscF9QZmpNWWM4ZnM4VWQxWUs5OUQxaXVJN05aaWZTYjczZlhCU1NpOVFXQzVqYWU5eTdFRi1HLQ?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Rory McIlroy warned he could be about to hurt his chances of winning The Masters<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;hitc.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Players: Why Rory McIlroy&#8217;s poor title defence leaves questions over PGA Tour form and schedule ahead of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":367523,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[5904,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-480079","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\/480079","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=480079"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480079\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/367523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=480079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=480079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=480079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}