{"id":32788,"date":"2025-09-09T05:14:01","date_gmt":"2025-09-09T09:14:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/hidalgo-impresses-at-the-irish-open-12-birdies-and-record\/"},"modified":"2025-09-09T05:14:01","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T09:14:01","slug":"hidalgo-impresses-at-the-irish-open-12-birdies-and-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/golf\/hidalgo-impresses-at-the-irish-open-12-birdies-and-record\/","title":{"rendered":"Hidalgo Impresses at the Irish Open: 12 Birdies and Record"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>\u00c1ngel Hidalgo Ties Birdie Record and Climbs at the Irish Open<\/h2>\n\nSTRAFFAN, Ireland \u2013 Golfer \u00c1ngel Hidalgo delivered an impressive performance in the third round of the Irish Open, tying a European Tour record with 12 birdies and climbing to second place with a spectacular 63, nine under par.\n\nMeanwhile, Frenchman Adrien Saddier took the lead of the tournament after a round of 68.\n\nRory McIlroy, a crowd favorite, also stayed in the fight, completing a bogey-free round with a 68. The world number 2 is four strokes behind Saddier, who has a total of 201, 15 under par, at The K Club.\n\nMcIlroy shares fourth position with Joakim Lagergren, who lost the lead after a round of 73. Lagergren&#8217;s performance included four birdies, three bogeys, and a double bogey.\n\nAlfredo Garcia-Heredia is in third place, three strokes behind the leader, after a round of 67 that included two eagles.\n\nHidalgo&#8217;s outstanding round included seven consecutive birdies, finishing just one stroke behind Saddier. The Spaniard became the ninth player to achieve a dozen birdies in a single round at a European Tour event.\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>I really felt at times like I was playing on the PlayStation, to be honest. Every shot went straight to the pin.<\/p><cite>\u00c1ngel Hidalgo<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\nThe only other player to achieve 12 birdies at The K Club was Darren Clarke, who set a course record with a 60 at the 1999 European Open.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00c1ngel Hidalgo Ties Birdie Record and Climbs at the Irish Open STRAFFAN, Ireland \u2013 Golfer \u00c1ngel Hidalgo delivered an impressive performance in the third round of the Irish Open, tying a European Tour record with 12 birdies and climbing to second place with a spectacular 63, nine under par. Meanwhile, Frenchman Adrien Saddier took the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":32789,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[1345,163,5446,161],"class_list":{"0":"post-32788","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-birdies","9":"tag-golf","10":"tag-irish-open","11":"tag-rory-mcilroy"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32788","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=32788"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32788\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}