{"id":71540,"date":"2026-04-13T05:57:20","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T10:57:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/13\/donald-trump-brands-rory-mcilroy-a-legend-after-second-masters-triumph\/"},"modified":"2026-04-13T05:57:20","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T10:57:20","slug":"donald-trump-brands-rory-mcilroy-a-legend-after-second-masters-triumph","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/13\/donald-trump-brands-rory-mcilroy-a-legend-after-second-masters-triumph\/","title":{"rendered":"Donald Trump brands Rory McIlroy a \u2018legend\u2019 after second Masters triumph"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>\n<p>US president praises 36-year-old\u2019s victory under pressure<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>McIlroy held nerve to beat world No 1 Scheffler by a shot<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>United States president Donald Trump called Rory McIlroy a \u201clegend\u201d as he congratulated the Northern Irishman on his second Masters title.<\/p>\n<p>McIlroy held on for a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2026\/apr\/13\/rory-mcilroy-wins-masters-again-augusta-national-golf\">one-shot victory over America\u2019s world No 1 Scottie Scheffler<\/a>, becoming only the fourth player in the tournament\u2019s 90-year history to win successive titles at Augusta.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2026\/apr\/13\/donald-trump-brands-rory-mcilroy-a-legend-after-second-masters-triumph\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US president praises 36-year-old\u2019s victory under pressure McIlroy held nerve to beat world No 1 Scheffler by a shot United States president Donald Trump called Rory McIlroy a \u201clegend\u201d as he congratulated the Northern Irishman on his second Masters title. McIlroy held on for a one-shot victory over America\u2019s world No 1 Scottie Scheffler, becoming &#8230; <a title=\"Donald Trump brands Rory McIlroy a \u2018legend\u2019 after second Masters triumph\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/13\/donald-trump-brands-rory-mcilroy-a-legend-after-second-masters-triumph\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Donald Trump brands Rory McIlroy a \u2018legend\u2019 after second Masters triumph\">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-71540","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\/71540","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=71540"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71540\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}