{"id":210132,"date":"2025-09-08T12:02:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-08T12:02:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/210132\/"},"modified":"2025-09-08T12:02:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-08T12:02:09","slug":"mcilroy-makes-eagle-putt-on-72nd-hole-to-force-playoff-and-goes-on-to-win-irish-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/210132\/","title":{"rendered":"McIlroy makes eagle putt on 72nd hole to force playoff and goes on to win Irish Open"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>STRAFFAN, Ireland (AP) \u2014 It turned out to be a perfect homecoming for Rory McIlroy.<\/p>\n<p>The Northern Irishman made a 28-foot eagle putt on the final hole to force a playoff, then sealed his second Irish Open win with a birdie on the third hole of the playoffs against Sweden&#8217;s Joakim Lagergren on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI just feel so lucky that I get to do this in front of these people, the support has been amazing all week,&#8221; McIlroy said. &#8220;So happy I could play the way I did this week and get the win.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>McIlroy and Lagergren each shot 6-under 66s on Sunday. They birdied the first two playoff holes but Lagergren found the hazard with his approach shot on the third hole to open the door for McIlroy&#8217;s win.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo do what I did earlier in the year and then to come home and win my national Open, no matter what happens for the rest of the year, that\u2019s a pretty cool year \u2014 2025\u2019s going to be one of the best, if not the best, of my career,\u201d McIlroy said.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/rory-mcilroy-masters-augusta-career-grand-slam-c739bf0e3173635fec0563e212539206\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:McIlroy won the Masters;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">McIlroy won the Masters<\/a> earlier this year to complete a career Grand Slam.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI thought it was going to be a nice homecoming, obviously, coming with a green jacket,\u201d he said. &#8220;This has been absolutely incredible, it has exceeded all my expectations &#8230; Moments like this, these are the things you are going to remember after your career is over. This is a real special day.<\/p>\n<p>Spaniard Rafa Cabrera Bello made a hole-in-one on the par-3 third hole.<\/p>\n<p>___<\/p>\n<p>AP golf: <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/golf\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/golf;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/golf<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"STRAFFAN, Ireland (AP) \u2014 It turned out to be a perfect homecoming for Rory McIlroy. The Northern Irishman&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":210133,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[1430,115282,1478,62,115283,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-210132","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-golf","9":"tag-joakim-lagergren","10":"tag-rory-mcilroy","11":"tag-sports","12":"tag-third-hole","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-unitedstates","15":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115168578445633763","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=210132"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210132\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/210133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}