As world number one Scottie Scheffler tried but failed to catch McIlroy, a song echoed around Holywood.<\/p>\n
“He’s in your head, in your head, Rory, Rory, Rory, ” sang the fans, to the tune of Zombie by the Cranberries.<\/p>\n
Leading the chorus were teenagers who went to McIlroy’s old school, Sullivan Upper.<\/p>\n
Among those in awe of his resilience, and brilliance, was 18-year-old Oliver Keown.<\/p>\n
“I’m amazed, I’m stunned,” he said.<\/p>\n
“When he double-bogeyed the fourth hole I was starting to get a bit nervous but he came through and still won.”<\/p>\n
Hamish Johnston, also 18, said: “I never doubted him. He’s world class.”<\/p>\n
Among the dozens of other golf fans in the packed clubhouse was Leah James. <\/p>\n
She too had total confidence in the 36-year-old Holywood golfer.<\/p>\n
“Why would I doubt him? He’s one of us,” she said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As world number one Scottie Scheffler tried but failed to catch McIlroy, a song echoed around Holywood. “He’s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":528118,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[5904,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-528117","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\/528117","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=528117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528117\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/528118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=528117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=528117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=528117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}