{"id":2188793,"date":"2025-12-06T00:56:31","date_gmt":"2025-12-06T00:56:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2188793"},"modified":"2025-12-06T00:56:31","modified_gmt":"2025-12-06T00:56:31","slug":"rory-magic-at-royal-melbourne","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/rory-magic-at-royal-melbourne\/","title":{"rendered":"Rory Magic at Royal Melbourne"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<h4 class=\"heading\">McIlroy whiffed a shot, then proceeded to make three birdies in his final four holes\u2014dawg!<\/h4>\n<p>On very, very few occasions while I\u2019m sitting on the couch, judging the world\u2019s best players and how they\u2019re performing under immense pressure, I\u2019ll think, \u201cI could\u2019ve hit a better shot there.\u201d Ridiculous? Yeah, probably, but in this latest case&#8230;hear me out.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>During the second round of the Australian Open at Royal Melbourne, Rory McIlroy\u2019s ball came to rest under a tree. It left him with one option: just punch it out of there. Not only was he unsuccessful, my man missed the ball completely. And not just by an inch or two, it looks like he missed it by a foot.<\/p>\n<p>I watched it and said, &#8220;I&#8217;ve probably been in that exact situation 100 times, I could&#8217;ve done better there. Rory&#8217;s never in a spot like that!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He went on to make bogey on the par 5, but bounced back quickly with an impressive birdie at the 15th.<\/p>\n<p>RELATED:<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.skratch.golf\/news\/pro-golf\/australian-open-2025-how-to-watch-royal-melbourne-rory-mcilroy\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:The Australian Open is Going to Be Golf Heaven;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">The Australian Open is Going to Be Golf Heaven<\/a><\/p>\n<p>And the roller coaster didn\u2019t stop there.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>On the 17th, McIlroy hit an outrageous shot from right of the fairway that found the green and set up an easy birdie.<\/p>\n<p>A hole later, the Northern Irishman stuffed a wedge to close out his day with three birdies in his final four holes to finish off a 3-under 68.<\/p>\n<p>He might be seven back of the lead, but the 25,000 fans slated to be on site Saturday will have one goal during the third round: get a glimpse of the Career Grand Slam winner.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source sports.yahoo.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>McIlroy whiffed a shot, then proceeded to make three birdies in his final four holes\u2014dawg! On very, very few occasions while I\u2019m sitting on the couch, judging the world\u2019s best players and how they\u2019re performing under immense pressure, I\u2019ll think, \u201cI could\u2019ve hit a better shot there.\u201d Ridiculous? Yeah, probably, but in this latest case&#8230;hear [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2188794,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[402755,342456,422417,422418],"class_list":["post-2188793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-royalty","tag-immense-pressure","tag-mcilroy","tag-royal-melbourne","tag-sitting-on-the-couch"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Rory-Magic-at-Royal-Melbourne.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2188793","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2188793"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2188793\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2188795,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2188793\/revisions\/2188795"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2188794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2188793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2188793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2188793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}