{"id":485424,"date":"2026-05-15T04:16:14","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T04:16:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/485424\/"},"modified":"2026-05-15T04:16:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T04:16:14","slug":"rory-mcilroy-all-roughed-up-after-failing-driving-test-in-us-pga-and-sums-it-all-up-with-one-word-st","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/485424\/","title":{"rendered":"Rory McIlroy all roughed up after failing driving test in US PGA and sums it all up with one word \u2013 \u2018S**t\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">\nMasters champion pays the price for failing to avoid Aronimink\u2019s heavy rough\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Rory McIlroy wasn't at his best during the first round of the 108th US PGA Championship at Aronimink. Photo: Jamie Squire\/Getty\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/GettyImages_2276261400.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Rory McIlroy wasn&#8217;t at his best during the first round of the 108th US PGA Championship at Aronimink. Photo: Jamie Squire\/Getty<\/p>\n<p>From Brian Keogh in Philadelphia<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday at 22:32<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Rory McIlroy did not even try to hide his disappointment after suffering \u2018rough\u2019 justice and finishing with four bogeys in a row to open with a title-damaging 74 in the 108th US PGA Championship at Aronimink.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Asked to describe his four-over-par opening round, he wasted little energy. \u201cShit,\u201d he said glumly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Masters champion pays the price for failing to avoid Aronimink\u2019s heavy rough Rory McIlroy wasn&#8217;t at his best&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":485425,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[9,10,37261,18,13,14,6,19,17,11,12,15,16,5,5952,7,8],"class_list":{"0":"post-485424","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-breaking-news","9":"tag-breakingnews","10":"tag-brian-keogh","11":"tag-eire","12":"tag-featured-news","13":"tag-featurednews","14":"tag-headlines","15":"tag-ie","16":"tag-ireland","17":"tag-latest-news","18":"tag-latestnews","19":"tag-main-news","20":"tag-mainnews","21":"tag-news","22":"tag-rory-mcilroy","23":"tag-top-stories","24":"tag-topstories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116576661947332099","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485424","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=485424"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485424\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/485425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=485424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=485424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=485424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}