{"id":264883,"date":"2025-07-14T18:19:13","date_gmt":"2025-07-14T18:19:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/264883\/"},"modified":"2025-07-14T18:19:13","modified_gmt":"2025-07-14T18:19:13","slug":"the-open-at-royal-portrush-will-be-a-better-advert-for-northern-ireland-than-euro-2028-could-ever-be-says-keith-bailie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/264883\/","title":{"rendered":"The Open at Royal Portrush will be a better advert for Northern Ireland than Euro 2028 could ever be, says Keith Bailie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"The Open doubles as both an iconic sporting event and an advertising mechanism for NI's tourism industry\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/2680d729-9fc7-4da9-9ce1-e79b7e97b496.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_caption1 beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_secondary beltel-66f0fec7_regular beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_marginleft0 beltel-1d70522a_marginright0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop3 beltel-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">The Open doubles as both an iconic sporting event and an advertising mechanism for NI&#8217;s tourism industry<\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_primary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop0 beltel-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Like mud at Glastonbury, rain at Wimbledon, an English penalty shoot-out defeat and disposable barbeques, The Open Championship is one of the standard bearers of the British summer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_primary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop0 beltel-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">And apart from those dodgy corner shop barbeques, The Open is the only one of those things that is ever likely to rock up on the shores of Northern Ireland.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Open doubles as both an iconic sporting event and an advertising mechanism for NI&#8217;s tourism industry Like&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":264884,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5011],"tags":[39681,58911,1144,24411,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-264883","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-northern-ireland","8":"tag-british-irish-lions","9":"tag-keith-bailie","10":"tag-northern-ireland","11":"tag-the-open","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114852971424735634","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264883","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=264883"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264883\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/264884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=264883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=264883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=264883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}