{"id":38731,"date":"2025-04-14T11:50:46","date_gmt":"2025-04-14T11:50:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/14\/welcome-to-the-club-woods-leads-salutes-to-mcilroys-masters-win-and-grand-slam\/"},"modified":"2025-04-14T11:50:46","modified_gmt":"2025-04-14T11:50:46","slug":"welcome-to-the-club-woods-leads-salutes-to-mcilroys-masters-win-and-grand-slam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/14\/welcome-to-the-club-woods-leads-salutes-to-mcilroys-masters-win-and-grand-slam\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Welcome to the club\u2019: Woods leads salutes to McIlroy\u2019s Masters win and grand slam"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Media in Ireland and US pay tribute to epic achievement<\/li>\n<li>\u2018This means everything to him,\u2019 adds Shane Lowry<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Tiger Woods welcomed Rory McIlroy to golf\u2019s most exclusive club after his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2025\/apr\/14\/rory-mcilroy-secures-career-grand-slam-after-dramatic-masters-playoff-win-over-justin-rose\">dramatic victory in the Masters<\/a> on Sunday. McIlroy, born in Holywood, Co Down, defeated Justin Rose on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/live\/2025\/apr\/13\/the-masters-2025-final-round-augusta-live-golf\">the first hole of a playoff<\/a> at Augusta National to join Woods, Jack Nicklaus, Gary Player, Ben Hogan and Gene Sarazen in having won all four major titles.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWelcome to the club @McIlroyRory,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/TigerWoods\/status\/1911580687771091196\">Woods posted on social media<\/a>. The 15-time major winner achieved three Grand Slams. He added: \u201cCompleting the grand slam at Augusta is something special. Your determination during this round, and this entire journey has shown through, and now you\u2019re a part of history. Proud of you!\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2025\/apr\/14\/tiger-woods-leads-salutes-rory-mcilroy-masters-win-grand-slam-golf\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Media in Ireland and US pay tribute to epic achievement \u2018This means everything to him,\u2019 adds Shane Lowry Tiger Woods welcomed Rory McIlroy to golf\u2019s most exclusive club after his dramatic victory in the Masters on Sunday. McIlroy, born in Holywood, Co Down, defeated Justin Rose on the first hole of a playoff at Augusta &#8230; <a title=\"\u2018Welcome to the club\u2019: Woods leads salutes to McIlroy\u2019s Masters win and grand slam\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/14\/welcome-to-the-club-woods-leads-salutes-to-mcilroys-masters-win-and-grand-slam\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about \u2018Welcome to the club\u2019: Woods leads salutes to McIlroy\u2019s Masters win and grand slam\">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-38731","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\/38731","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=38731"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38731\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}