{"id":46701,"date":"2026-08-05T14:00:12","date_gmt":"2026-08-05T14:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/46701\/"},"modified":"2026-08-05T14:00:12","modified_gmt":"2026-08-05T14:00:12","slug":"bob-macintyre-and-patrick-reed-strengthen-field-for-irish-open-at-doonbeg-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/46701\/","title":{"rendered":"Bob MacIntyre and Patrick Reed strengthen field for Irish Open at Doonbeg \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Ryder Cup stars Patrick Reed, Bob MacIntyre, Francesco Molinari, and Sepp Straka have added to the field for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/irish-open\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/irish-open\/\">Amgen Irish Open<\/a>, with the quartet to tee up at Trump International Doonbeg from September 10th to 13th. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">They will join a field that includes defending champion Jon Rahm, Tyrrell Hatton and Danish brothers Rasmus H\u00f8jgaard and Nicolai H\u00f8jgaard. Irish golf will be represented by defending champion Rory McIlroy, Shane Lowry, P\u00e1draig Harrington and others.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Reed, the 2018 Masters champion, arrives in Ireland with significant momentum, leading the Race to Dubai Rankings after recording two victories, a runner-up finish and a further two top-10 results during an impressive 2026 season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The American is a three-time Ryder Cup player and returns to the Irish Open having made his tournament debut at The K Club in 2025.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">\u201cI\u2019m really looking forward to returning to the Amgen Irish Open and playing at Doonbeg for the first time. Ireland has such a rich golfing history and the fans always create an incredible atmosphere,\u201d Reed said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">MacIntyre, the world number 17, was a key member of Europe\u2019s victorious Ryder Cup teams in Rome in 2023 and New York in 2025, and the Scotsman has established himself among the leading names in the game.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">\u201cThe Amgen Irish Open is always a special tournament and I\u2019m delighted to be returning. The support from the Irish fans is among the best we experience anywhere in the world, and I\u2019m looking forward to competing on the West Coast and hopefully giving them plenty to cheer about,\u201d MacIntyre said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">With weekend tickets now sold out for the Irish Open, fans can still experience Ireland\u2019s national open with general admission tickets available for the Wednesday Pro-Am and rounds one and two on Thursday and Friday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">US president Donald Trump, who owns the course in Co Clare, is expected to make an appearance at the weekend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ryder Cup stars Patrick Reed, Bob MacIntyre, Francesco Molinari, and Sepp Straka have added to the field for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":46702,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[127,3215,1562],"class_list":["post-46701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-robert-macintyre","tag-dp-world-tour","tag-irish-open","tag-robert-macintyre"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46701","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46701"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46701\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}