{"id":22872,"date":"2025-09-05T23:25:28","date_gmt":"2025-09-06T03:25:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/2025\/09\/05\/mcilroy-shoots-66-and-puts-effort-into-the-competition-with-the-irish-open\/"},"modified":"2025-09-05T23:25:28","modified_gmt":"2025-09-06T03:25:28","slug":"mcilroy-shoots-66-and-puts-effort-into-the-competition-with-the-irish-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/2025\/09\/05\/mcilroy-shoots-66-and-puts-effort-into-the-competition-with-the-irish-open\/","title":{"rendered":"McIlroy shoots 66 and puts effort into the competition with the Irish Open"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Strafan, Ireland &#8211; Rory McIlroy hit a 6-under 66 without a bogey and moved to competition after the second round of Ireland&#8217;s opening.<\/p>\n<p>McIlroy jumped into third place share after making six birdies at the K club. Two of them came to the final two halls and began thrilling deep gallery following the Northern Irishman at Homecoming.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Amazing &#8211; all day,&#8221; McIlroy said. &#8220;Even walking to range for today&#8217;s warm-up is absolutely incredible. I look forward to playing in that vibe for the next few days.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>World No. 2 will need to lead Lagergren, who led with 12 under par after 36 holes, and France&#8217;s Adrien Saddier, who added 66 to opening 67, with one stroke back.<\/p>\n<p>Lagergren, 33, has a history with K clubs. Last year, when he played the Irish Challenge on the adjacent Palmer South Course, he filmed a course record of 63, then drilled a hole from the bunker to create an eagle on hole 72, earning a one-stroke victory.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Ireland treats me a lot,&#8221; Lagergren said.<\/p>\n<p>McIlroy was tied to 7 under with Thorbjorn Olesen (71), Daniel Hillier (66), and Alfredo Garcia-Heredia (65).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Strafan, Ireland &#8211; Rory McIlroy hit a 6-under 66 without a bogey and moved to competition after the second round of Ireland&#8217;s opening. McIlroy jumped into third place share after making six birdies at the K club. Two of them came to the final two halls and began thrilling deep gallery following the Northern Irishman [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22873,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[17],"class_list":{"0":"post-22872","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\/22872","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=22872"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22872\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}