{"id":71422,"date":"2026-04-10T20:57:52","date_gmt":"2026-04-11T01:57:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/10\/school-drop-fly-to-augusta-home-for-dinner-rory-mcilroys-scouting-trips-pay-off-at-masters\/"},"modified":"2026-04-10T20:57:52","modified_gmt":"2026-04-11T01:57:52","slug":"school-drop-fly-to-augusta-home-for-dinner-rory-mcilroys-scouting-trips-pay-off-at-masters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/10\/school-drop-fly-to-augusta-home-for-dinner-rory-mcilroys-scouting-trips-pay-off-at-masters\/","title":{"rendered":"School drop, fly to Augusta, home for dinner: Rory McIlroy\u2019s scouting trips pay off at Masters"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>\n<p>McIlroy skipped PGA Tour events to practice at Augusta<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Defending champion <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2026\/apr\/11\/rory-mcilroy-six-shot-masters-lead--stunning-second-round-golf\">has six-shot lead<\/a> after two rounds<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Rory McIlroy has explained how scouting trips to Augusta National in the weeks leading up to the Masters have played a significant role in his domination of staging of the major. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2026\/apr\/11\/rory-mcilroy-six-shot-masters-lead--stunning-second-round-golf\">McIlroy\u2019s second round of 65<\/a> \u2013 which included six birdies in the closing seven holes \u2013 set a Masters record, with the defending champion the first man to lead the tournament by six at the halfway point.<\/p>\n<p>Entering the Masters, it was assumed McIlroy\u2019s three-week break from PGA Tour business was to conserve energy. Instead, he made smart use of his private jet as he looks to become just the fourth golfer to win back-to-back Masters titles.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2026\/apr\/10\/rory-mcilroy-practice-augusta-national-masters-lead\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>McIlroy skipped PGA Tour events to practice at Augusta Defending champion has six-shot lead after two rounds Rory McIlroy has explained how scouting trips to Augusta National in the weeks leading up to the Masters have played a significant role in his domination of staging of the major. McIlroy\u2019s second round of 65 \u2013 which &#8230; <a title=\"School drop, fly to Augusta, home for dinner: Rory McIlroy\u2019s scouting trips pay off at Masters\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/10\/school-drop-fly-to-augusta-home-for-dinner-rory-mcilroys-scouting-trips-pay-off-at-masters\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about School drop, fly to Augusta, home for dinner: Rory McIlroy\u2019s scouting trips pay off at Masters\">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-71422","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\/71422","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=71422"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71422\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}