{"id":439850,"date":"2023-07-15T11:54:37","date_gmt":"2023-07-15T15:54:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=439850"},"modified":"2023-07-15T11:55:20","modified_gmt":"2023-07-15T15:55:20","slug":"mcllroy-leads-scottish-open-over-tom-kim-by-thinnest-of-margins","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/mcllroy-leads-scottish-open-over-tom-kim-by-thinnest-of-margins\/","title":{"rendered":"Mcllroy leads Scottish Open over Tom Kim by thinnest of margins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rory Mcllroy is in the led of the Scottish Open after making just enough birdie putts for a 3-under 67, which ensured him a one shot lead over South Korean Tom Kim.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m still in a really good position,\u201d McIlroy said. \u201cAs I said, I feel like I\u2019ve left a few out there. But I mean, it\u2019s hard to be disappointed when you\u2019re in the lead going into the final day. I\u2019ll certainly take it.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">A lil\u2019 dose of Rory ASMR from his 3rd round 67 at the Scottish Open \ud83c\udff4\udb40\udc67\udb40\udc62\udb40\udc73\udb40\udc63\udb40\udc74\udb40\udc7f<\/p>\n<p>Back-to-back days where Rory\u2019s score was the worst possible outcome from the round he played, but hey, he\u2019s leading by 1 with 18 holes remaining \ud83e\udd37\u200d\u2642\ufe0f <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Hci9X6hIzL\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/Hci9X6hIzL<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Rory McIlroy Tracker (@RMTracker) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RMTracker\/status\/1680240601034371072?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">July 15, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The 34-year-old has never triumphed at the Scottish Open as he was at 13-under 197.<\/p>\n<p>Not only that but he has never finished in the top 10 in seven previous tries as a pro, and he has three runner-up finishes in the Dunhill Links. He has four top-five finishes in British Opens held in Scotland.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rory Mcllroy is in the led of the Scottish Open after making just enough birdie putts for a 3-under 67, which ensured him [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4224,"featured_media":431842,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17989],"news_category":[16713],"gn_keywords":[19402,20437],"acf":{"announce":"The Irishman made enough putts to edge in front of his young opponent","video":["video"]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/439850"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4224"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=439850"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/439850\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/431842"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=439850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=439850"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=439850"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=439850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}