{"id":20898,"date":"2015-12-16T08:46:17","date_gmt":"2015-12-16T08:46:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/mcilroy-named-european-tour-player-of-the-year-for-third-time\/"},"modified":"2015-12-16T08:46:17","modified_gmt":"2015-12-16T08:46:17","slug":"mcilroy-named-european-tour-player-of-the-year-for-third-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/mcilroy-named-european-tour-player-of-the-year-for-third-time\/","title":{"rendered":"McIlroy named European Tour Player of the Year for third time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" alignleft size-full wp-image-5005\" src=\"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.holaincompany.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Jugadores_rorym.jpg\" border=\"0\" style=\"float: left;margin-right:10px\" width=\"700\" height=\"394\" srcset=\"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Jugadores_rorym.jpg 700w, https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Jugadores_rorym-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/>As expected, the number 3 in the world ranking, Rory McIlroy, has been named European Circuitk golfer of the year, an award he has won for the third time in the last four seasons.<\/p>\n<p>The 26-year-old Northern Irishman is the seventh golfer in the history of the European Tour to be named best player in two consecutive seasons.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The three victories achieved this year, the Dubai Desert Classic, the WGC-Cadillac Match Play and the DP World Tour Championship, have helped him to achieve the individual distinction.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a great honor for me to be named European Golfer of the Year again,\u201d said McIlroy, absent through injury for five weeks in the summer, which prevented him from retaining the British Open won in 2014.<\/p>\n<p>The great challenge for Rory, who has just undergone eye surgery to avoid having to wear glasses and contact lenses, is to try to catch his two rivals at the top of the world ranking: Jason Day, second, and Jordan Spieth, first.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As expected, the number 3 in the world ranking, Rory McIlroy, has been named European Circuitk golfer of the year, an award he has won for the third time in the last four seasons. The 26-year-old Northern Irishman is the seventh golfer in the history of the European Tour to be named best player in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":5006,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[125],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20898","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20898"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20898\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}