{"id":563179,"date":"2026-03-27T00:16:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-27T00:16:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/563179\/"},"modified":"2026-03-27T00:16:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T00:16:08","slug":"power-the-best-of-the-irish-as-waring-leads-in-texas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/563179\/","title":{"rendered":"Power the best of the Irish as Waring leads in Texas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>S\u00e9amus Power is the best of the Irish at the Houston Open after shooting an opening round of 70 in Texas.<\/p>\n<p>It leaves Power on two under, five off the top, and in a tie for 31st in an event for which he was a late call up <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rte.ie\/sport\/golf\/2026\/0324\/1565054-power-heading-to-houston-as-scheffler-withdraws\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">after a raft of late withdrawals.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>England&#8217;s Paul Waring has the outright lead on seven under par after shooting a bogey free round of 63.<\/p>\n<p>Waterford man Power reached the turn on one under after a birdie on the 16th, which was his seventh hole. He added further birdies at the second, third and eighth, but did bogey two of his last three holes.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rte.ie\/sport\/results\/golf\/pga-tour-1\/28348\/houston-open-908472\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Full leaderboard<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Shane Lowry managed two birdies in the last seven holes to finish under par after his first round.<\/p>\n<p>The Offaly man signed for a 71 after mixing an earlier birdie on the 12th hole &#8211; his third &#8211; with bogeys on the 13th and 2nd holes to leave him in T59 heading into day two.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"S\u00e9amus Power is the best of the Irish at the Houston Open after shooting an opening round of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":563180,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[443],"tags":[49,48,622,82],"class_list":["post-563179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-golf","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/563179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=563179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/563179\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/563180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=563179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=563179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=563179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}