{"id":140276,"date":"2025-09-07T22:12:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-07T22:12:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/140276\/"},"modified":"2025-09-07T22:12:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-07T22:12:07","slug":"rory-mcilroy-wins-second-irish-open-title-in-thrilling-playoff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/140276\/","title":{"rendered":"Rory McIlroy wins second Irish Open title in thrilling playoff"},"content":{"rendered":"

Rory McIlroy<\/a> savored “a pretty cool year” after adding a second Irish Open title to his Masters win.<\/p>\n

The world No. 2 completed the career Grand Slam with April’s triumph at Augusta and added to that by winning his home open for the second time with a thrilling playoff victory over Joakim Lagergren<\/a>.<\/p>\n

McIlroy had to eagle the 72nd hole just to take it to a playoff after Lagergren’s own stunning eagle at the 16th.<\/p>\n

After the first two extra holes were tied in birdie fours, Lagergren found the water hazard the third time around to allow McIlroy to win it with two putts.<\/p>\n

McIlroy, who also triumphed in this event at the same venue in 2016, said: “I just feel so lucky that I get to do this in front of these people. The support has been amazing all week. So happy I could play the way I did this week and get the win.<\/p>\n

“I had a putt last year at [Royal County Down] to force a playoff with Rasmus [H\u00f8jgaard] and it just missed on the high side, so it felt like [the eagle at the 18th] was a little bit of redemption.<\/p>\n

“I wanted to be aggressive with it — such a cool feeling, cool moment for that to go in, and that gave me a chance in the playoff.<\/p>\n

“It just felt like it was who was going to blink first. Joakim hit a poor second shot in on that playoff hole and that opened the door for me, and I’m just so happy to win my second Irish Open.”<\/p>\n

With a Ryder Cup to come at Bethpage later this month, McIlroy said: “To do what I did earlier in the year and then to come home and win my national Open, no matter what happens for the rest of the year, that’s a pretty cool year — 2025’s going to be one of the best, if not the best, of my career.<\/p>\n

“But we’re not finished yet, I’ve got a big week next week at Wentworth [the BMW PGA Championship] and then obviously everybody’s looking forward to the Ryder Cup.”<\/p>\n

McIlroy and Lagergren had been in a five-way tie for the lead on 14 under when the final group turned for home on Sunday.<\/p>\n

Angel Hidalgo<\/a>, second overnight after Saturday’s stunning 63, finished in a tie for third on 15 under with Rafa Cabrera Bello<\/a>, who sparked his challenge into life with a hole-in-one at the third.<\/p>\n

A third Spaniard, Angel Ayora<\/a>, was fifth alongside third-round leader Adrien Saddier<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rory McIlroy savored “a pretty cool year” after adding a second Irish Open title to his Masters win.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":140277,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71],"tags":[427,99],"class_list":["post-140276","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\/140276","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=140276"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140276\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/140277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}