{"id":38694,"date":"2025-04-14T00:28:20","date_gmt":"2025-04-14T00:28:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/14\/with-a-little-boldness-and-a-lot-of-luck-mcilroy-banishes-ghosts-of-2011-andy-bull\/"},"modified":"2025-04-14T00:28:20","modified_gmt":"2025-04-14T00:28:20","slug":"with-a-little-boldness-and-a-lot-of-luck-mcilroy-banishes-ghosts-of-2011-andy-bull","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/14\/with-a-little-boldness-and-a-lot-of-luck-mcilroy-banishes-ghosts-of-2011-andy-bull\/","title":{"rendered":"With a little boldness and a lot of luck, McIlroy banishes ghosts of 2011 | Andy Bull"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For somebody who makes golf look sublimely easy, the world No 2 made winning the Masters look hellishly difficult<\/p>\n<p>Has there ever been an athlete who made playing look so easy, and winning seem so hard?<\/p>\n<p>On Sunday morning, everyone in Augusta was asking variations on the same single question. \u201cGonna be his year this year?\u201d\u00a0the man on the bag check asked. \u201cDo\u00a0you think he\u2019ll get it done?\u201d the woman guarding the crosswalk asked. \u201cThis time, huh, this time?\u201d the man on the door asked.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2025\/apr\/14\/rory-mcilroy-justin-rose-masters-2025-final-round-augusta\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For somebody who makes golf look sublimely easy, the world No 2 made winning the Masters look hellishly difficult Has there ever been an athlete who made playing look so easy, and winning seem so hard? On Sunday morning, everyone in Augusta was asking variations on the same single question. \u201cGonna be his year this &#8230; <a title=\"With a little boldness and a lot of luck, McIlroy banishes ghosts of 2011 | Andy Bull\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/14\/with-a-little-boldness-and-a-lot-of-luck-mcilroy-banishes-ghosts-of-2011-andy-bull\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about With a little boldness and a lot of luck, McIlroy banishes ghosts of 2011 | Andy Bull\">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-38694","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\/38694","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=38694"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38694\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}