{"id":36076,"date":"2025-03-14T21:05:32","date_gmt":"2025-03-14T21:05:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/14\/rory-mcilroy-relishing-tougher-test-as-storms-head-for-players-championship\/"},"modified":"2025-03-14T21:05:32","modified_gmt":"2025-03-14T21:05:32","slug":"rory-mcilroy-relishing-tougher-test-as-storms-head-for-players-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/14\/rory-mcilroy-relishing-tougher-test-as-storms-head-for-players-championship\/","title":{"rendered":"Rory McIlroy relishing tougher test as storms head for Players Championship"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Northern Irishman two off lead after improved driving<\/li>\n<li>Tommy Fleetwood in contention with second-round 66<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It looks as if the world\u2019s best golfers should have enjoyed this while it lasted. If forecasted gusts of up to 30mph land at Sawgrass on Saturday, this Players Championship will descend into a war of attrition. Day four carries a 70% chance of storms. The PGA Tour\u2019s marquee event could be about to get grisly.<\/p>\n<p>There was a time in the dim and distant past when Rory McIlroy shied away from playing in poor conditions. How things have changed. The Northern Irishman now relishes the battle. McIlroy\u2019s second round of 68 placed him just two off the lead, held by Min Woo Lee and Akshay Bhatia.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2025\/mar\/14\/rory-mcilroy-relishing-tougher-test-as-storms-head-for-players-championship\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Northern Irishman two off lead after improved driving Tommy Fleetwood in contention with second-round 66 It looks as if the world\u2019s best golfers should have enjoyed this while it lasted. If forecasted gusts of up to 30mph land at Sawgrass on Saturday, this Players Championship will descend into a war of attrition. Day four carries &#8230; <a title=\"Rory McIlroy relishing tougher test as storms head for Players Championship\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/14\/rory-mcilroy-relishing-tougher-test-as-storms-head-for-players-championship\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Rory McIlroy relishing tougher test as storms head for Players Championship\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36076","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36076"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36076\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}