{"id":894961,"date":"2026-09-14T03:42:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-14T03:42:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/894961\/"},"modified":"2026-09-14T03:42:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-14T03:42:09","slug":"shane-lowry-crushes-the-field-at-doonbeg-for-record-11-shot-victory-in-irish-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/894961\/","title":{"rendered":"Shane Lowry crushes the field at Doonbeg for record 11-shot victory in Irish Open"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Shane Lowry of Ireland celebrates winning the Irish Open at Trump International Golf Links in Doonbeg, Ireland on Sunday.Peter Morrison\/The Associated Press<\/p>\n

Shane Lowry gave his home crowd and U.S. President Donald Trump plenty to cheer Sunday when he turned a four-shot lead into a runaway at Doonbeg, closing with a seven-under 63 to break the Irish Open record with an 11-shot victory.<\/p>\n

Lowry opened with four birdies in eight holes, one of them from 45 feet over a ridge at No. 7, and the Irishman poured it on before a delirious gallery at Trump International Ireland.<\/p>\n

His final act was a 30-foot birdie putt on the 18th green. Lowry began stretching out his arms as the ball was still a few feet from the cup. The way the week had gone, it was the only fitting conclusion.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is incredible,\u201d Lowry said, wiping away tears. \u201cI\u2019m so happy.\u201d<\/p>\n

He finished on 23-under 257, seven shots better than the previous 72-hole record of 264 by Jon Rahm at Lahinch in 2019. Lowry won by 11 shots over Patrick Reed (64) and Joaquin Niemann (67), breaking the Irish Open record by one shot for the largest victory margin. Bernhard Langer held the record of 10 shots at Portmarnock in 1987.<\/p>\n

Lowry won the Irish Open for the second time, 17 years after he won as an amateur. So many great things have happened since then. Lowry won the British Open at Royal Portrush in 2019, and he holed the clinching putt for Europe when it won the Ryder Cup last September.<\/p>\n

\u201cI said walking down the last, obviously Portrush was incredible, last year was incredible, and I feel like I can\u2019t better it,\u201d Lowry said. \u201cBut look at this.\u201d<\/p>\n

It had not been the smoothest year. Lowry had the Cognizant Classic in hand at PGA National in Florida when he made a mess at the end and tied for second. Lowry did not have another top 10 all year until his blowout performance at Doonbeg.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe had a big chance earlier this year at the Cognizant. I felt like he never got going with his season after that. Knocked him back a little bit,\u201d Rory McIlroy said after he closed with a 67 to tie for 41st. \u201cTo see him in contention out there, obviously the whole country would love to see him get it done, me included.\u201d<\/p>\n

It was never in question on a cloudy day along the Atlantic coast, where Trump watched from a box seat while wrapping up his weekend trip to Ireland.<\/p>\n

Reed started 10 shots behind and ran off six birdies in 10 holes, but none after that, to tie for second and expand his lead over McIlroy in the Race to Dubai.<\/p>\n

Lowry\u2019s victory margin was the second-biggest on the European tour this year. Yurav Premlall of South Africa won by 14 shots against a weak field at the Catalunya Championship in May.<\/p>\n

\u201cI just don\u2019t do things half-measures,\u201d Lowry said with a grin. \u201cI can\u2019t believe I\u2019m standing here on top of the leaderboard. I said to my caddie \u2013 I didn\u2019t know how I was doing \u2013 I said to him on 14 after I holed that birdie putt, \u2018How are we doing? How far ahead are we?\u2019 He said, \u2018Far enough.\u2019 So I was happy with that.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Open this photo in gallery: Shane Lowry of Ireland celebrates winning the Irish Open at Trump International Golf…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":894962,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[443],"tags":[901,888,902,879,877,903,49,48,876,895,896,891,878,875,46,549,295,894,887,914,880,881,622,893,889,890,884,904,885,909,910,912,907,911,905,908,882,898,899,714,897,906,82,865,61,900,892,886,883,913],"class_list":["post-894961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-alberta","tag-arts-news","tag-bc","tag-breaking-news","tag-breaking-news-video","tag-british-columbia","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-canada-news","tag-canada-sports","tag-canada-sports-news","tag-canada-trafficcanada-weather","tag-canadian-breaking-news","tag-canadian-news","tag-economy","tag-education","tag-environment","tag-federal-government","tag-foreign-news","tag-globe-and-mail","tag-globe-and-mail-breaking-news","tag-globe-and-mail-canada-news","tag-golf","tag-government","tag-life-news","tag-lifestyle","tag-local-news","tag-manitoba","tag-national-news","tag-new-brunswick","tag-newfoundland-and-labrador","tag-northwest-territories","tag-nova-scotia","tag-nunavut","tag-ontario","tag-pei","tag-photos","tag-political-news","tag-political-opinion","tag-politics","tag-politics-news","tag-quebec","tag-sports","tag-sports-news","tag-technology","tag-travel","tag-trudeau","tag-us-news","tag-world-news","tag-yukon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/894961","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=894961"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/894961\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/894962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=894961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=894961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=894961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}