{"id":275161,"date":"2025-07-19T16:31:11","date_gmt":"2025-07-19T16:31:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/275161\/"},"modified":"2025-07-19T16:31:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-19T16:31:11","slug":"the-open-rory-mcilroy-hits-second-ball-in-freak-incident-after-electric-start-at-royal-portrush-while-scottie-scheffler-is-reeled-by-matt-fitzpatrick-live-updates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/275161\/","title":{"rendered":"The Open: Rory McIlroy hits second ball in freak incident after electric start at Royal Portrush while\u00a0Scottie Scheffler is reeled by Matt Fitzpatrick &#8211; live updates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The putter has gone ice cold<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Rory hasn&#8217;t had a birdie since the fourth but he&#8217;s had plenty of looks, he just can&#8217;t find the putt to drop. The latest one, on 10, looks like it might have a little bit more turn on it at the last second but McIlroy&#8217;s hung it out too far and it stays above ground.<br \/>He&#8217;s not hurting himself with these pars but he&#8217;s not helping himself either. Still -6, which is unthinkable after that start.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The putter has gone ice cold Rory hasn&#8217;t had a birdie since the fourth but he&#8217;s had plenty&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":275162,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4106],"tags":[2826,79,24411,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-275161","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-golf","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-the-open","11":"tag-uk","12":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114880858318862158","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275161","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=275161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275161\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/275162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=275161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=275161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=275161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}