McIlroy shared the lead with Gotterup going into Sunday’s final round and led after the American dropped a shot on the first.<\/p>\n
Bogey on three set him back, before three birdies in five holes leading up to the ninth reignited his charge and returned him to the summit.<\/p>\n
However, in unerringly similar scenes to his final round at the 2022 Open at St Andrews – when his inability to hole putts on the back nine prevented him beating Cam Smith – McIlroy’s putter was cold and Gotterup edged to victory. <\/p>\n
“It was pretty windy and was hard to get the ball super close, but I gave myself plenty of chances coming down the stretch,” the Northern Irishman said.<\/p>\n
“I feel like the greens got a little bumpy. I had some good putts that just didn’t go in, whether they were mis-reads or poor speed.<\/p>\n
“But I feel like I’ve gotten out of this week what I wanted. I’m looking forward to getting to Portrush tonight and getting out on to the golf course early tomorrow.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"McIlroy shared the lead with Gotterup going into Sunday’s final round and led after the American dropped a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8158,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71],"tags":[427,99],"class_list":["post-8157","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\/8157","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=8157"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8157\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}