AUGUSTA, Ga. (AP) \u2014 Shane Lowry became the first player with two career holes-in-one at the Masters on Saturday.<\/p>\n
More importantly, his ace at the par-3 sixth put him in contention for his first green jacket.<\/p>\n
Playing with Tommy Fleetwood and trying to chase down good buddy Rory McIlroy, Lowry hit a 7-iron from 190 yards and watched the ball hop three times before disappearing into the cup. He reared back and shook his arms in celebration, almost exactly like he did a decade ago, when Lowry aced the par-3 16th during the final round of the Masters.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou don’t ever expect to make a hole-in-one. I just couldn’t believe it,\u201d he said. \u201cObviously, you know, you’re out here, and you’re in the hunt at the Masters, and you’re making a hole-in-one \u2014 it’s pretty cool.\u201d<\/p>\n
Even cooler: Lowry ended up shooting 68, leaving him 9 under for the tournament and two back of McIlroy and Cameron Young.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe all know it\u2019s all about tomorrow. You know what I mean?\u201d asked Lowry, whose only major victory came at the 2019 British Open. \u201cObviously it matters, today, but when we get to tomorrow, that\u2019s when, you know, we\u2019ll see what everyone is made of.\u201d<\/p>\n
Perhaps more incredible than his second ace in the Masters was the fact that it was Lowry’s second ace in as many events. He had a hole-in-one on the second hole at Memorial Park during the Houston Open, using the same 7-iron he used on Saturday.<\/p>\n
As for the Masters, it was the first hole-in-one since Stewart Cink’s on the 16th in 2022. And it was just the seventh ace to happen on the difficult, downhill sixth hole; Corey Conners had the last one during the 2021 tournament.<\/p>\n
Anyone who makes a hole-in-one during the Masters is rewarded with a crystal bowl. Now, Lowry’s the first with two of them.<\/p>\n
He has a rapidly growing list of aces at some of golf’s iconic venues, too. Along with his two at Augusta National, and his recent one in Houston, the Irishman has aced the 17th at TPC Sawgrass \u2014 the famed island green \u2014 and the seventh at Pebble Beach.<\/p>\n
\u201cMaybe I’m just good. I don’t know,\u201d Lowry said, laughing. \u201cI don’t know.\u201d<\/p>\n
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AP golf: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/golf<\/p>\n
Dave Skretta, The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AUGUSTA, Ga. (AP) \u2014 Shane Lowry became the first player with two career holes-in-one at the Masters on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":599053,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[443],"tags":[49,48,622,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-599052","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-golf","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599052","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=599052"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599052\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/599053"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=599052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=599052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=599052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}