{"id":841883,"date":"2026-09-09T15:42:13","date_gmt":"2026-09-09T15:42:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/841883\/"},"modified":"2026-09-09T15:42:13","modified_gmt":"2026-09-09T15:42:13","slug":"rory-mcilroy-says-president-trumps-presence-at-irish-open-will-provide-some-challenges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/841883\/","title":{"rendered":"Rory McIlroy says President Trump&#8217;s presence at Irish Open will &#8216;provide some challenges&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>DOONBEG, Ireland \u2014 Rory McIlroy says the expected visit of President Donald Trump this week at the Irish Open poses logistical challenges, and that the atmosphere will be different.<\/p>\n<p>A White House official said last month that Trump planned to attend the tournament, which is hosted for the first time at his golf course in Doonbeg in County Clare on the country\u2019s Atlantic coast.<\/p>\n<p>His trip to the course will require extra security measures.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s going to be different, but the one thing I\u2019d say is his golf resorts have hosted PGA Tour events, European Tour events, LIV events,\u201d McIlroy told BBC Sport. \u201cHe\u2019s a big fan of golf, he\u2019s a wonderful supporter of golf. It\u2019s going to be different with him being here but we\u2019re here to play a golf tournament, and it\u2019s a good golf course, and keep our head down and play.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to the BBC, Trump may present the Irish Open winner with the trophy on Sunday evening.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think the weekend, especially when he\u2019s here, crowds will be limited,\u201d added six-time major winner McIlroy. \u201cObviously, there\u2019s a lot that goes on. So, logistically, it provides some challenges, absolutely. But at the same time, if he wants to come and watch the Irish Open, who are we to say no?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The tournament starts Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>    <a class=\"Link\" aria-label=\"Amgen Irish Open 2026: How to watch, TV coverage, live streams\" href=\"https:\/\/www.golfchannel.com\/dp-world-tour\/news\/amgen-irish-open-2026-how-to-watch-tv-coverage-live-streams\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>    <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"Image\" alt=\"Amgen Irish Open 2024 - Previews\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/1788968533_773_.jpeg\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Check out full TV and streaming details for every round of the DP World Tour\u2019s Amgen Irish Open.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DOONBEG, Ireland \u2014 Rory McIlroy says the expected visit of President Donald Trump this week at the Irish&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":841884,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71],"tags":[427,99],"class_list":["post-841883","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\/841883","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=841883"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/841883\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/841884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=841883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=841883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=841883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}