{"id":1468,"date":"2012-09-13T22:01:27","date_gmt":"2012-09-13T16:31:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.entecity.com\/?p=1468"},"modified":"2012-09-13T22:01:27","modified_gmt":"2012-09-13T16:31:27","slug":"rory-mcilroy-to-play-in-singapore-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/rory-mcilroy-to-play-in-singapore-open\/","title":{"rendered":"Rory McIlroy to play in Singapore Open"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Golf&#8217;s man-of-the-moment Rory McIlroy will tee-up alongside three-times winner Adam Scott at November&#8217;s $6 million Singapore Open, organisers said on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>The Northern Irish world number one played the Barclays-sponsored event once before in 2008, a year after turning professional, finishing fourth on that occasion.<\/p>\n<p>Twice a major winner, McIlroy cemented his position as the world&#8217;s top golfer by winning the BMW Championship on Sunday for his third victory in four outings on the US PGA Tour.<\/p>\n<p>However, the 23-year-old will need to fend off four-times major winner Phil Mickelson, a regular face at the lucrative Asian Tour and European Tour co-sanctioned event, who has signed up again for 2012.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Golf&#8217;s man-of-the-moment Rory McIlroy will tee-up alongside three-times winner Adam Scott at November&#8217;s $6 million Singapore Open, organisers said on Tuesday. The Northern Irish world number one played the Barclays-sponsored event once before in 2008, a year after turning professional, finishing fourth on that occasion. Twice a major winner, McIlroy cemented his position as the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":1469,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[106],"tags":[130],"class_list":["post-1468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-golf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1468"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1468"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1468\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}