{"id":384777,"date":"2025-08-30T09:26:12","date_gmt":"2025-08-30T09:26:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/384777\/"},"modified":"2025-08-30T09:26:12","modified_gmt":"2025-08-30T09:26:12","slug":"meet-eilgin-michael-the-13-year-old-dublin-golfer-with-a-reality-tv-star-dad-looking-to-make-his-mark-on-the-world-stage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/384777\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet Eilgin Michael, the 13-year-old Dublin golfer with a reality TV star dad looking to make his mark on the world stage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Eilgin Michael with dad Glen on the famous Swilcan Bridge on the Old Course at St Andrew\u2019s\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/62d6b598-ce6e-418e-931b-b9e32d343291.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)\">Eilgin Michael with dad Glen on the famous Swilcan Bridge on the Old Course at St Andrew\u2019s<\/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)\">For Luke Littler, it was plastic darts, but for Dublin teenager Eilgin Michael, similar to Rory McIlroy and Tiger Woods, it was plastic toy clubs as soon as he was able to walk.<\/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)\">\u201cI started playing golf at three years of age. My nanny [Bernadette Murphy] got me plastic golf clubs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Eilgin Michael with dad Glen on the famous Swilcan Bridge on the Old Course at St Andrew\u2019s For&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":384778,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4106],"tags":[2826,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-384777","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-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115117004552527420","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384777","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=384777"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384777\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/384778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=384777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=384777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=384777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}