{"id":22770,"date":"2025-09-04T17:18:52","date_gmt":"2025-09-04T21:18:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/2025\/09\/04\/the-late-bogie-soaks-lori-mcilroy-to-open-71-at-the-irish-open\/"},"modified":"2025-09-04T17:18:52","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T21:18:52","slug":"the-late-bogie-soaks-lori-mcilroy-to-open-71-at-the-irish-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/2025\/09\/04\/the-late-bogie-soaks-lori-mcilroy-to-open-71-at-the-irish-open\/","title":{"rendered":"The late Bogie soaks Lori McIlroy to open 71 at the Irish Open"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Strafan, Ireland &#8211; Rory McIlroy bogeyed two of his last three holes, fading to 1 under 71 in the first round of the Irish Open on Thursday&#8217;s latest homecoming.<\/p>\n<p>Attracting the biggest gallery of the day at K Club, World No. 2 was about to sharpen the game a few weeks after Beth Page Black&#8217;s Rider Cup.<\/p>\n<p>McIlroy said he was encouraged by how he played &#8211; starting with No. 10, then birdies on four of his first nine holes &#8211; performed &#8220;better than what the score reflects.&#8221; His finish hurt him the most, missing the green on the 7th and 8th, and not getting up and down for par.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The game feels pretty good,&#8221; McIlroy said.<\/p>\n<p>McIlroy, who was in Northern Ireland in July at the opening of the Royal Portrush, was five strokes from the clubhouse lead held by Nacho Elvira, Solbjorn Olesen and Roman Langasque.<\/p>\n<p>They were one shot before Bernd Wiesberger, Daniel Brown and Adrien Saddier.<\/p>\n<p>Another member of the European Ryder Cup team, Ireland&#8217;s Shane Rawley played in front of the crowd at home, filming three of the three of the last six holes.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Strafan, Ireland &#8211; Rory McIlroy bogeyed two of his last three holes, fading to 1 under 71 in the first round of the Irish Open on Thursday&#8217;s latest homecoming. Attracting the biggest gallery of the day at K Club, World No. 2 was about to sharpen the game a few weeks after Beth Page Black&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14087,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[17],"class_list":{"0":"post-22770","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-golf"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22770","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22770"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22770\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}