{"id":23089,"date":"2025-09-09T02:48:29","date_gmt":"2025-09-09T06:48:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/2025\/09\/09\/rory-mcilroy-wins-second-irish-open-title-in-the-thrilling-playoffs\/"},"modified":"2025-09-09T02:48:29","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T06:48:29","slug":"rory-mcilroy-wins-second-irish-open-title-in-the-thrilling-playoffs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/2025\/09\/09\/rory-mcilroy-wins-second-irish-open-title-in-the-thrilling-playoffs\/","title":{"rendered":"Rory McIlroy wins second Irish open title in the thrilling playoffs"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Rory McIlroy tasted “a rather cool year” after adding his second Irish open title to the Masters victory.<\/p>\n

World No. 2 added it by completing his career grand slam in an April victory at Augusta and winning his second home open with a thrilling playoff victory over Joakimura Glenn.<\/p>\n

McIlroy had to eagle hole 72 just to reach the playoffs after Lagergren’s own stunning Eagle on the 16th.<\/p>\n

After the first two extra holes were tied to the birdie four, Lagergren discovers the water danger for the third time so McIlroy can win with two putts.<\/p>\n

“I feel lucky enough to do this in front of these people. The support has been fantastic all week,” said McIlroy, who won the event at the same venue in 2016.<\/p>\n

\u201cI had a putt last year (Royal County Down) and forced a playoff against Rasmus (Hodgegard) but I just missed it on the high side so it felt like (Eagle on the 18th) was a bit red.<\/p>\n

\u201cI wanted to be offensive with it, that cool feeling, the cool moments that it gets in, and that gave me a chance in the playoffs.<\/p>\n

“I felt that who would flash first. Joakim hit a poor second shot in that playoff hole, which opened the door for me.<\/p>\n

At the Ryder Cup that will be coming to Bethpage later this month, McIlroy said:<\/p>\n

“But we’re not finished yet. We had a big week at Wentworth (BMW PGA Championship) next week, and obviously everyone is looking forward to the Ryder Cup.”<\/p>\n

McIlroy and Lagergren were in a five-way tie for the lead at 14 under when the final group was turned to the house on Sunday.<\/p>\n

Angel Hidalgo finished third with Rafa Cabrera Bello in third place with 15 in his second time after a stunning 63 on Saturday.<\/p>\n

The third Spaniard, Angel Ayora, was fifth in line with third round leader Adrian Sadia.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Rory McIlroy tasted “a rather cool year” after adding his second Irish open title to the Masters victory. World No. 2 added it by completing his career grand slam in an April victory at Augusta and winning his second home open with a thrilling playoff victory over Joakimura Glenn. McIlroy had to eagle hole 72 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23090,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[17],"class_list":{"0":"post-23089","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\/23089","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=23089"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23089\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}