{"id":79736,"date":"2025-07-21T04:29:11","date_gmt":"2025-07-21T04:29:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/79736\/"},"modified":"2025-07-21T04:29:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T04:29:11","slug":"rory-mcilroys-british-open-mightve-been-the-greatest-victory-lap-of-his-career","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/79736\/","title":{"rendered":"Rory McIlroy&#8217;s British Open might&#8217;ve been the greatest victory lap of his career"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PORTRUSH, Northern Ireland \u2014 Rory McIlroy didn\u2019t leave Portrush with the Claret Jug under his arm Sunday night, but he was a winner nonetheless at the 153rd British Open.<\/p>\n<p>There are times by the end of some sporting events when there\u2019s more than one winner, even though there\u2019s only one trophy awarded.<\/p>\n<p>Scottie Scheffler put the tournament to sleep with his utter dominance, <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/07\/20\/sports\/scottie-scheffler-cruises-to-british-open-win-one-away-from-career-grand-slam\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">winning his fourth career major championship<\/a> and leaving no doubt for at least the final 36 holes.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019ve seen this before. You may <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/07\/20\/sports\/scottie-scheffler-looked-like-tiger-woods-dominating-at-british-open\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">remember Tiger Woods<\/a>, in his height of dominance, coldly closing events down long before official closing time arrived.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PORTRUSH, Northern Ireland \u2014 Rory McIlroy didn\u2019t leave Portrush with the Claret Jug under his arm Sunday night,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":79737,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[48831,1430,1478,62,2632,2225,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-79736","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-british-open","9":"tag-golf","10":"tag-rory-mcilroy","11":"tag-sports","12":"tag-sports-columnists","13":"tag-sports-plus","14":"tag-united-states","15":"tag-unitedstates","16":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114889343912020360","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79736","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=79736"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79736\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}