{"id":136511,"date":"2025-09-06T06:55:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-06T06:55:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/136511\/"},"modified":"2025-09-06T06:55:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-06T06:55:08","slug":"irish-open-rory-mcilroy-surges-into-contention-at-k-club-with-bogey-free-66","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/136511\/","title":{"rendered":"Irish Open: Rory McIlroy surges into contention at K Club with bogey-free 66"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Having been irked by a slow play warning during an up-and-down 71 on Thursday, McIlroy started well on Friday as he picked up two shots in his first four holes. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">His patience was then tested, however, as he let birdie chances slip through his grasp during a run of eight successive pars. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">However, the Northern Irishman birdied 13, 14, 17 and 18 to join Thorbjorn Olesen, Alfredo Garcia-Heredia and Daniel Hillier on seven under, with England&#8217;s Tyrrell Hatton a shot behind. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 36-year-old could have moved closer to the lead had he converted a 10-foot eagle putt on the par-five 18th after a stunning approach. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I got it going, and I hit some good shots coming in,&#8221; added McIlroy, who will play in next week&#8217;s BMW PGA Championship at Wentworth before the Ryder Cup in New York at the end of the month.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I guess in the middle of the back nine, I felt like I should be a few shots better than I was and just sort of stayed patient, knuckled down, hit some good shots, and took advantage of it.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Having been irked by a slow play warning during an up-and-down 71 on Thursday, McIlroy started well on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":136512,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71],"tags":[427,99],"class_list":["post-136511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-golf","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136511","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136511"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136511\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/136512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}