{"id":405989,"date":"2025-09-07T19:26:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-07T19:26:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/405989\/"},"modified":"2025-09-07T19:26:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-07T19:26:07","slug":"irish-open-final-round-mcilroy-beats-lagergren-in-dramatic-play-off-recap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/405989\/","title":{"rendered":"Irish Open final round: McIlroy beats Lagergren in dramatic play-off &#8211; recap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;Tough one to swallow&#8217; &#8211; Lagergrenpublished at 18:35 British Summer Time<\/p>\n<p>18:35 BST<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-16yshci-Paragraph e14e9ror4\">McIlroy wins Irish Open<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Joakim Lagergren, speaking after losing to Rory McIlroy in a play-off:<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;This is a tough one to swallow. I really thought I had that out there today. Obviously posting minus 17 going into the clubhouse, could might as well been enough.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Played really good in the playoff as well. Hit a solid 5-iron down on the last play, but it got a horrendous bounce. It&#8217;s a metre from being dead to the hole. So it&#8217;s tough.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">On the progress he&#8217;s made: <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Absolutely, yes. It feels like I&#8217;m definitely back and playing at a level where I want to play. A top 10 last week and then losing in playoff this week. So yeah, it feels like it&#8217;s trending.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8216;Tough one to swallow&#8217; &#8211; Lagergrenpublished at 18:35 British Summer Time 18:35 BST McIlroy wins Irish Open Joakim&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":405990,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4106],"tags":[2826,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-405989","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\/115164662310543054","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405989","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=405989"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405989\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/405990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=405989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=405989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=405989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}