Danish Rasmus Hojgaard completed the fourth and remaining spherical on Sunday with three birdies in a row to realize the ultimate victory within the Irish Open golf event, which started on Thursday on the Royal County Down membership in Newcastle (Northern Eire), and prevented the world quantity 3 and massive favourite, Rory McIlroy, from successful at dwelling.
McIlroy, outcomes
The Northern Irishman had a three-meter putt for eagle on the 18th gap to power the playoff, however his ball narrowly escaped to the suitable and that shot licensed Hojgaard’s victory. Rasmus Hojgaard handed in a 65-stroke card on Sunday (6 beneath par), with eight birdies, the final three within the remaining three holes, for simply two bogeys, to take his fifth title on the DP World Tour and the primary since he gained the Made in Himmerland in Denmark in 2023.
The younger Danish golfer, aged 23, completed with 275 complete strokes (-9) and was one stroke forward of McIlroy, who began the final day as chief and completed with a spherical of 69 (-2). Two strokes behind Hojgaard, the Italian Matteo Manassero completed third.
The most effective Spaniards had been the San Sebastian native Adrián Otaegui and the Santander native Nacho Elvira, who completed at par in complete, sharing seventeenth place with different gamers, 9 strokes behind the champion. The Madrid native Alejandro del Rey, who was within the prime positions the primary two days, completed with +3.
Rory McIlroy, born Could 4, 1989 in Holywood (Northern Eire), is a Northern Irish skilled golfer. Younger, he rapidly made a reputation for himself for his {golfing} skills, first as an newbie the place he gained the Junior Ryder Cup in 2004, performed the Walker Cup in 2007, represented Eire on the Eisenhower Trophy in 2006 and gained 5 tournaments together with the European Beginner Championship in 2006 (in addition to the European Beginner Staff Championship in 2007), he turned skilled in September 2007 on the age of 18.
He gained his first victory on the European PGA Tour on the Dubai Desert Traditional in February 2009 then his first victory on the American circuit the next 12 months on the Quail Hole Championship. After two third-place finishes in main tournaments, in 2009 on the PGA Championship and in 2010 on the Masters, he gained his first Grand Slam title on the 2011 version of the American Open.
