{"id":295248,"date":"2026-02-13T02:13:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-13T02:13:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/295248\/"},"modified":"2026-02-13T02:13:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T02:13:07","slug":"fireworks-and-frustration-for-mcilroy-at-pebble-beach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/295248\/","title":{"rendered":"Fireworks and frustration for McIlroy at Pebble Beach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rory McIlroy certainly had an up-and-down round on day one of the Pebble Beach Pro-Am, carding a 68 but had the misfortune of double-bogeying a couple of holes heading for home, while Shane Lowry is a shot better off after he signed for a 67.<\/p>\n<p>Lowry, playing on Spyglass Hill course, started at the tenth and posted consecutive birdies. The highlight of the day came on 14 where he hit a 46-foot bunker shot for eagle. He would go one to birdie four holes but in between was those 5s on the par-three 3 and 5.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rte.ie\/sport\/results\/golf\/pga-tour-1\/28348\/pebble-beach-pro-am-908464\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">LEADERBOARD<\/a><\/p>\n<p>At the Pebble Beach Links, Lowry posted three birdies before dropping consecutive shots on nine and 10. He finished strongly, picking up four shots to lie on the five-under mark.<\/p>\n<p>Leading the way is Japanese player Ryo Hisatsune after a stunning 62, leaving him on 10 under, with the American duo Keegan Bradley and Sam Burns a shot further back.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rory McIlroy certainly had an up-and-down round on day one of the Pebble Beach Pro-Am, carding a 68&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":295249,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":{"0":"post-295248","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-ie","9":"tag-ireland","10":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=295248"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295248\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/295249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=295248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=295248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=295248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}