{"id":390059,"date":"2026-04-09T15:44:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T15:44:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/390059\/"},"modified":"2026-04-09T15:44:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T15:44:13","slug":"the-masters-day-one-shane-lowry-and-rory-mcilroy-get-underway-at-augusta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/390059\/","title":{"rendered":"The Masters Day One: Shane Lowry and Rory McIlroy get underway at Augusta"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cIt\u2019s trending for a really big week for Xander\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Paul McGinley and Brandel Chamblee have been previewing the Masters on the Golf Channel\/Sky Sports.<\/p>\n<p>McGinley lists off his reasons why he doesn\u2019t believe McIlroy will defend his title \u2013 a recent back injury, not playing in the past three weeks, the extra responsibilities that come with being champion \u2013 and has gone with Xander Schauffele as his pick for the week.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The San Diego native has finished inside the top 10 in five of the last seven Masters, and was in a three-way tie for second in 2019.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Chamblee, meanwhile, backs Scottie Scheffler to claim a third win at Augusta.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cIt\u2019s trending for a really big week for Xander\u201d Paul McGinley and Brandel Chamblee have been previewing the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":390060,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,1394,1395,112,170752],"class_list":{"0":"post-390059","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-rory-mcilroy","11":"tag-shane-lowry","12":"tag-sports","13":"tag-us-masters"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390059","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=390059"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390059\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/390060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=390059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=390059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=390059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}