{"id":94294,"date":"2025-09-30T08:12:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-30T08:12:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/94294\/"},"modified":"2025-09-30T08:12:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T08:12:10","slug":"conor-mckeon-its-easy-to-be-cynical-about-the-ryder-cup-but-rory-mcilroy-and-shane-lowry-made-believers-out-of-most-of-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/94294\/","title":{"rendered":"Conor McKeon: It\u2019s easy to be cynical about the Ryder Cup, but Rory McIlroy and Shane Lowry made believers out of most of us"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Rory McIlroy and Shane Lowry celebrate after winning the Ryder Cup outright, beating the United States 15-13 at Bethpage Black. Photo: Getty\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/1985b470-4ae8-4e7f-b540-a67735c0df83.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 and Shane Lowry celebrate after winning the Ryder Cup outright, beating the United States 15-13 at Bethpage Black. Photo: Getty<\/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)\">There is always a drop of ennui in the air on the Sunday evening of a big golf tournament. The final putt falls and the circus starts to pack up around you; everyone says goodbye, the theatre of the preceding week now draped in deep, autumnal darkness.<\/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)\">It was like that in Bethpage as we crushed in around the player interview area, or the \u2018PIA\u2019 as the Ryder Cup media officials were absolutely determined to call it for the week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rory McIlroy and Shane Lowry celebrate after winning the Ryder Cup outright, beating the United States 15-13 at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":94295,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[31891,18,19,17,5952,5948,5951,132],"class_list":{"0":"post-94294","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-conor-mckeon","9":"tag-eire","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-rory-mcilroy","13":"tag-ryder-cup","14":"tag-shane-lowry","15":"tag-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94294","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=94294"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94294\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/94295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}