{"id":71530,"date":"2026-04-12T21:56:14","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T02:56:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/12\/rory-mcilroy-targets-even-loftier-goals-after-winning-back-to-back-masters-titles\/"},"modified":"2026-04-12T21:56:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T02:56:14","slug":"rory-mcilroy-targets-even-loftier-goals-after-winning-back-to-back-masters-titles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/12\/rory-mcilroy-targets-even-loftier-goals-after-winning-back-to-back-masters-titles\/","title":{"rendered":"Rory McIlroy targets even loftier goals after winning back-to-back Masters titles"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>\n<p>Northern Irishman vows not to rest on laurels after his sixth major win<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Player \u2018not as emotional\u2019 as last year but revels in \u2018amazing\u2019 win<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Rory McIlroy has warned the rest of elite golf he will set further, lofty goals in his sport after a successful defence of the Masters.<\/p>\n<p>McIlroy <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2026\/apr\/13\/rory-mcilroy-wins-masters-again-augusta-national-golf\">prevailed at Augusta National<\/a> by a shot over Scottie Scheffler, meaning the Northern Irishman becomes just the fourth golfer in history to win the tournament back-to-back. While McIlroy will cherish his win, he has no plans to rest on his laurels.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2026\/apr\/13\/rory-mcilroy-back-to-back-masters-winner-titles\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Northern Irishman vows not to rest on laurels after his sixth major win Player \u2018not as emotional\u2019 as last year but revels in \u2018amazing\u2019 win Rory McIlroy has warned the rest of elite golf he will set further, lofty goals in his sport after a successful defence of the Masters. McIlroy prevailed at Augusta National &#8230; <a title=\"Rory McIlroy targets even loftier goals after winning back-to-back Masters titles\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/12\/rory-mcilroy-targets-even-loftier-goals-after-winning-back-to-back-masters-titles\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Rory McIlroy targets even loftier goals after winning back-to-back Masters titles\">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-71530","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\/71530","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=71530"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71530\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}