{"id":767298,"date":"2026-09-11T13:44:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-11T13:44:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/767298\/"},"modified":"2026-09-11T13:44:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-11T13:44:11","slug":"irish-open-second-round-lowry-surges-clear-as-mcilroy-cards-69","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/767298\/","title":{"rendered":"Irish Open second round: Lowry surges clear as McIlroy cards 69"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;Not quite as stressful&#8217; &#8211; McKibbinpublished at 14:39 BST<\/p>\n<p>14:39 BST<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-fxb76l-Paragraph e14e9ror4\">McKibbin -5 (67)<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Tom McKibbin\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/c937f350-513b-47a9-b57a-60403514a4d8.jpg.webp\"  width=\"966\" height=\"543\" class=\"ssrcss-egie1y-Image edrdn950\"\/>Image source, Getty Images<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Tom McKibbin, speaking after a second-round 67: &#8220;Yeah, very happy. Obviously the conditions aren&#8217;t as difficult as they were yesterday. Yeah, some tricky pins out there, and nice to sort of take advantage of the start again and hold on for the rest of the round.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">On the more benign conditions compared to yesterday: &#8220;It was much more enjoyable. Obviously it took about an hour less to play. Yeah, not quite as stressful. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I felt yesterday that you could have a big number at literally any point of the round. Today you sort of knew that the holes were gettable and a number of holes that were kind of tricky but not as stressful as yesterday.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8216;Not quite as stressful&#8217; &#8211; McKibbinpublished at 14:39 BST 14:39 BST McKibbin -5 (67) Image source, Getty Images&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":767299,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[5904,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-767298","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\/767298","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=767298"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/767298\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/767299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=767298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=767298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=767298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}