McIlroy "3rd to 16th"... Norman's Comeback Victory

Iris Open 4R 2 Over Par 'Poor Performance'
Norman Shoots 7 Under Par for 2nd Career Win
Long 2nd, Lee Min-woo 7th, Wang Jeong-hoon 61st

World No. 2 Rory McIlroy (Northern Ireland) struggled on the final day.

Rory McIlroy lost 2 strokes in the 4th round of the Irish Open and dropped to a tie for 16th place.

On the 10th (KST), he shot a 2-over-par 74 in the 4th round of the DP World Tour (formerly European Tour) Horizon Irish Open (total prize money $6 million) held at The K Club (par 72, 7,441 yards) in Straffan, Kildare, Ireland, dropping to a tie for 16th place (9-under-par 279). After posting a daily best 6-under-par the previous day to leap up to 3rd place, just 2 strokes behind the leader, he was unable to complete a come-from-behind victory.

McIlroy recorded 4 birdies, 1 bogey, 1 double bogey, and 1 triple bogey. He started smoothly with birdies on holes 1 and 4 but was abruptly halted by a double bogey on the 7th hole (par 4). Although he recovered with a bogey on the 11th hole and a birdie on the 13th hole (both par 4), he fell out of the winning race after a triple bogey on the 16th hole (par 5), where he hit his ball into the water twice amid shot troubles. His green in regulation rate was 66.7%, with 29 putts.

Vincent Norman is kissing the trophy immediately after winning the Irish Open. [Kildare, Ireland=AP·Yonhap News]

World No. 158 Vincent Norman (Sweden) surged with a 7-under-par round to claim a come-from-behind victory (14-under-par 274). This marked his second DP World Tour win following his victory at the Barbasol Championship last July, with a winner's prize of €951,047 (approximately 1.36 billion KRW). Hurly Long (Germany), who led the previous day, failed to reduce his score and finished 2nd (13-under-par 275). Shane Lowry (Ireland) tied for 3rd (12-under-par 276), and Korean-Australian Minwoo Lee tied for 7th (11-under-par 277). Wang Jeonghun finished the tournament tied for 61st (3-under-par 285).

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