{"id":19646,"date":"2025-07-29T05:13:55","date_gmt":"2025-07-29T09:13:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/harrington-wins-the-senior-british-open-second-senior-major-of-the-year\/"},"modified":"2025-07-29T05:13:55","modified_gmt":"2025-07-29T09:13:55","slug":"harrington-wins-the-senior-british-open-second-senior-major-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/golf\/harrington-wins-the-senior-british-open-second-senior-major-of-the-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Harrington wins the Senior British Open: Second senior major of the year"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Padraig Harrington Conquers the Senior British Open<\/h2>\n\nIn a demonstration of concentration and skill, Padraig Harrington won the Senior British Open, adding his second senior major of the year. The Irish golfer, focused on his game, did not notice the presence of Rory McIlroy in the gallery, nor the updates on the leaderboard.\n\nHarrington closed the day with an impressive round of 67 strokes under par, securing his victory with a three-stroke lead over his competitors.\n\nThe key to his success was an eagle on the first hole of the Old Course at Sunningdale, which allowed him to maintain a constant lead throughout the competition.\n\nI&#8217;m thrilled to have won, but very satisfied to have won a Senior Open with my two Opens. The fact that only five people have done it is quite special. I&#8217;m very proud to have managed to survive so long in the game.\n\nWith this victory, Harrington joins a select group of golfers who have won both the British Open and its senior version, including names like Darren Clarke, Tom Watson, Gary Player, and Bob Charles.\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/a1.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?img=%2Fphoto%2F2025%2F0727%2Fr1524428_1296x729_16%2D9.jpg\" alt=\"Padraig Harrington became the fifth player to win the British Open and the senior version.\" title=\"\"><figcaption>Padraig Harrington, tras su victoria en el Senior British Open.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\nThomas Bj\u00f8rn and Justin Leonard fought to get closer to Harrington, but they failed to catch him. Bj\u00f8rn even suffered a bogey on the 16th hole that cut short his aspirations.\n\nHarrington, surprised by McIlroy&#8217;s presence on the course, demonstrated absolute concentration in his game, without paying attention to what was happening around him.\n\nThis victory marks Harrington&#8217;s eleventh title on the PGA Tour Champions, solidifying his success in recent seasons. The Irish golfer also won the U.S. Senior Open last month.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Padraig Harrington Conquers the Senior British Open In a demonstration of concentration and skill, Padraig Harrington won the Senior British Open, adding his second senior major of the year. The Irish golfer, focused on his game, did not notice the presence of Rory McIlroy in the gallery, nor the updates on the leaderboard. Harrington closed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19647,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[163,4850,161,6295],"class_list":{"0":"post-19646","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-golf","9":"tag-padraig-harrington","10":"tag-rory-mcilroy","11":"tag-senior-british-open"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19646","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19646"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19646\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}