{"id":19960,"date":"2025-07-30T05:16:51","date_gmt":"2025-07-30T09:16:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/harrington-conquers-the-senior-british-open-historic-double-crown\/"},"modified":"2025-07-30T05:16:51","modified_gmt":"2025-07-30T09:16:51","slug":"harrington-conquers-the-senior-british-open-historic-double-crown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/golf\/harrington-conquers-the-senior-british-open-historic-double-crown\/","title":{"rendered":"Harrington Conquers the Senior British Open: Historic Double Crown"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Padraig Harrington Conquers the Senior British Open and Makes Golf History<\/h2>\n\n\nGolfer Padraig Harrington demonstrated his absolute dominance by winning the Senior British Open, securing his second senior major of the year with an impeccable performance at the Old Course in Sunningdale.\n\nHarrington, focused on his game, did not notice the presence of Rory McIlroy, who was among the public, and maintained his focus to close with a round of 67 strokes under par.\n\nThe Irishman, with a two-stroke lead, started with an eagle on the first hole and maintained the distance throughout the day, solidifying himself as the fifth player in history to win both the British Open and the Senior British Open.\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>I&#8217;m thrilled to have won, but I&#8217;m very pleased to have won a Senior Open with my two Opens. The fact that only five people have achieved this is very special. I am very proud to have managed to survive for so long in this sport.<\/p><cite>Padraig Harrington<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\nHarrington joins legends like Darren Clarke, Tom Watson, Gary Player and Bob Charles in this select group.\n\nThomas Bj\u00f8rn and Justin Leonard shared second place, three strokes behind the champion.\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 con el trofeo\" title=\"\"><\/figure>\n\n\nBj\u00f8rn tried to get closer, but a bogey on the 16th hole frustrated his aspirations.\n\nHarrington, surprised by the presence of McIlroy, who resides in London, revealed that he did not notice his presence due to his total concentration on the game.\n\nWith this victory, Harrington has 11 titles on the PGA Tour Champions and continues to demonstrate his relevance in senior golf, after winning the U.S. Senior Open last month.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Padraig Harrington Conquers the Senior British Open and Makes Golf History Golfer Padraig Harrington demonstrated his absolute dominance by winning the Senior British Open, securing his second senior major of the year with an impeccable performance at the Old Course in Sunningdale. Harrington, focused on his game, did not notice the presence of Rory McIlroy, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19961,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[163,4850,161,6361],"class_list":{"0":"post-19960","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-open"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19960","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=19960"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19960\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}