{"id":371927,"date":"2026-03-29T20:56:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-29T20:56:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/371927\/"},"modified":"2026-03-29T20:56:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-29T20:56:08","slug":"shane-lowry-makes-flying-start-to-final-round-at-houston-open-with-hole-in-one-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/371927\/","title":{"rendered":"Shane Lowry makes flying start to final round at Houston Open with hole-in-one \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/shane-lowry\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/shane-lowry\">Shane Lowry<\/a> made a blistering start to his final round at the Houston Open with a hole-in-one at the second hole.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Trailing overnight leader Gary Woodland by 13 shots going into the final round, Lowry opened with a par at Memorial Park before acing the 170-yard second to move to seven under for the tournament.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">It was Lowry\u2019s fourth hole-in-one on the PGA Tour, with his last one coming at the Pebble Beach Pro-Am last year, where he aced the iconic seventh hole.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Indeed, his two other holes-in-one came at legendary designs, the 17th at Sawgrass in 2022 and the 16th at Augusta National during the 2016 Masters.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Lowry failed to build on his flying start, giving a shot back at the fourth hole to turn in one-under 34. He carded a single birdie and eight pars on the back nine to card a two-under 68 and finish on seven under for the tournament. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Shane Lowry made a blistering start to his final round at the Houston Open with a hole-in-one at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":371928,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,91189,1395,112],"class_list":{"0":"post-371927","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-pga-tour","11":"tag-shane-lowry","12":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371927","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=371927"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371927\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/371928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=371927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=371927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=371927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}