{"id":24729,"date":"2018-01-20T14:32:39","date_gmt":"2018-01-20T13:32:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2018\/01\/20\/rory-mcilroy-puts-himself-in-prime-position-for-victory-on-return\/"},"modified":"2018-01-20T14:32:39","modified_gmt":"2018-01-20T13:32:39","slug":"rory-mcilroy-puts-himself-in-prime-position-for-victory-on-return","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=24729","title":{"rendered":"Rory McIlroy puts himself in prime position for victory on return"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u2022 28-year-old one shot off lead in Abu Dhabi\u2022 \u2018I felt really comfortable, really relaxed\u2019Rory McIlroy need not have bothered expressing a belief of being \u201crejuvenated and refocused\u201d. Demonstration of that has been delivered here, with McIlroy\u2019s round-on-round improvement continuing into Saturday.From the earlier position of the 28-year-old\u2019s fitness and attitude being questioned, it would now be a disappointment to McIlroy if he does not mark this return to competitive action with victory. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2018\/jan\/20\/rory-mcilroy-prime-position-abu-dhabi-championship\" target=\"_blank\">Rory McIlroy puts himself in prime position for victory on return<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2022 28-year-old one shot off lead in Abu Dhabi\u2022 \u2018I felt really comfortable, really relaxed\u2019Rory McIlroy need not have bothered expressing a belief of being \u201crejuvenated and refocused\u201d. Demonstration of that has been delivered here, with McIlroy\u2019s round-on-round improvement continuing into Saturday.From the earlier position of the 28-year-old\u2019s fitness and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24729","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24729"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24729\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}