{"id":278769,"date":"2025-07-21T01:40:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-21T01:40:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/278769\/"},"modified":"2025-07-21T01:40:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T01:40:10","slug":"rory-mcilroy-enjoys-awesome-week-in-northern-ireland-despite-falling-short-at-the-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/278769\/","title":{"rendered":"Rory McIlroy enjoys ‘awesome week’ in Northern Ireland despite falling short at The Open"},"content":{"rendered":"

Rory McIlroy said he had enjoyed an “awesome week” back in Northern Ireland, even if his charge to win the British Open for a second time fell short on Sunday.<\/p>\n

The Masters champion finished in a tie for seventh on 10 under par, seven shots adrift of world number one Scottie Scheffler<\/a>, who romped to his first Claret Jug.<\/p>\n

McIlroy<\/a> was supported wildly across the four days at Royal Portrush, which is just over 60 miles from where the world number two grew up.<\/p>\n

“It’s been an awesome week. I’ve got everything I wanted out of this week apart from a Claret Jug, and that’s just because one person was just a little bit better than the rest of us,”<\/b> said McIlroy.<\/p>\n

“I feel so thankful and just so lucky that I get to do this in front of this crowd. Hopefully I’ll have one or two (British) Opens left here.”<\/b><\/p>\n

McIlroy’s Masters victory in April saw him become just the sixth man to win the career Grand Slam.<\/p>\n

It seems just a matter of time before Scheffler joins that list after he added the British Open to his two Masters and PGA Championship title from earlier this year.<\/p>\n

The American’s spate of success in the last two years has sparked comparisons with the dominance of 15-time major winner Tiger Woods<\/a> during his heyday.<\/p>\n

“None of us could hang with Scottie this week. He’s an incredible player,”<\/b> added McIlroy.<\/p>\n

“He’s been dominant for the last couple years. He is the bar that we’re all trying to get to.<\/b><\/p>\n

“In a historical context, you could argue that there’s only maybe two or three players in the history of the game that have been on a run, the one that Scottie’s been on here for the last 24 to 36 months. Incredibly impressive.<\/b><\/p>\n

“He’s a very worthy winner. Also, he’s a great person, and I think he’s a wonderful ambassador for our game as well.”<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rory McIlroy said he had enjoyed an “awesome week” back in Northern Ireland, even if his charge to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":278770,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5011],"tags":[1144,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-278769","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-northern-ireland","8":"tag-northern-ireland","9":"tag-uk","10":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114888679412662489","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278769","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=278769"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278769\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/278770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=278769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=278769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=278769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}