{"id":9536,"date":"2023-11-16T19:11:56","date_gmt":"2023-11-16T16:11:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/9536\/rory-mcilroys-ball-lands-in\/"},"modified":"2023-11-16T19:11:57","modified_gmt":"2023-11-16T16:11:57","slug":"rory-mcilroys-ball-lands-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/?p=9536","title":{"rendered":"Rory McIlroy&#8217;s ball lands in woman&#8217;s lap at World Tour Championship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rory McIlroy&#8217;s ball lands in woman&#8217;s lap at World Tour Championship\u060c<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>It was Rory McIlroy&#8217;s most embarrassing lie of the day.<\/p>\n<p>The four-time major winner&#8217;s tee shot on the par-3 13th hole of the World Tour Championship in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, somehow landed in the lap of a spectator on the right Thursday of the green.<\/p>\n<p>Amid laughter, the rest of the spectators left, but the woman remained in place, her feet crossed and the ball wedged between her legs.<\/p>\n<p>McIlroy approached her, scratched her head and then pretended to shoot, much to the amusement of the gallery.  McIlroy stepped back and said, &#8220;Okay, uh. Referee!&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Rory McIlroy&#8217;s tee shot lands in the spectators&#8217; knees!  \ud83e\udd2f<a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/DPWTC?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#DPWTC<\/a> | <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/RolexSeries?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#RolexSeries<\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Yklsw5Nqhq\">pic.twitter.com\/Yklsw5Nqhq<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2013 DP World Tour (@DPWorldTour) <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DPWorldTour\/status\/1725128508404605071?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 16, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The match referee came out and gave McIlroy a drop, saying, &#8220;Basically, it&#8217;s the spot below her.&#8221;<\/p>\n<aside class=\"inline editorial float-r\" data-behavior=\"article_related\">\n<h2 class=\"editorial-title\">Editor&#8217;s Choice<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><\/li>\n<li><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/1700151116_342_Rory-McIlroys-ball-lands-in-womans-lap-at-World-Tour.jpg&#038;w=130&#038;h=130&#038;scale=crop&#038;location=center.jpeg\" width=\"65\" height=\"65\"\/><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>1 Related<\/p>\n<\/aside>\n<p>\u201cYou can stand up,\u201d McIlroy said with a laugh to the woman, who handed him the ball, stood up, picked up her bag and returned to the gallery to applause.<\/p>\n<p>McIlroy drove onto the green and ended up with a bogey.  McIlroy, who had already clinched the top spot in the DP World Tour rankings before the final event of the season, shot a 1-under 71 in the first round and is 4 shots behind co-leaders Nicolai Hojgaard, Matthieu Pavon and Julien Guerrier.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Associated Press contributed to this report.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rory McIlroy&#8217;s ball lands in woman&#8217;s lap at World Tour Championship\u060c It was Rory McIlroy&#8217;s most embarrassing lie of the day. The four-time major winner&#8217;s tee shot on the par-3 13th hole of the World Tour Championship in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, somehow landed in the lap of a spectator on the right Thursday of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9537,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1033,2157,2377,5707,5705,3190,1589,5706,39],"class_list":["post-9536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-sports","tag-ball","tag-championship","tag-lands","tag-lap","tag-mcilroys","tag-rory","tag-tour","tag-womans","tag-world"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9536","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9536"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9536\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9538,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9536\/revisions\/9538"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}