{"id":393065,"date":"2026-04-11T09:55:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-11T09:55:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/393065\/"},"modified":"2026-04-11T09:55:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-11T09:55:13","slug":"mcilroy-lowry-on-the-charge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/393065\/","title":{"rendered":"McIlroy & Lowry on the charge"},"content":{"rendered":"

Rory McIlroy resumes his Masters charge this evening, heading into his third round at Augusta with a commanding six-shot lead<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The defending champion streaked away from the field during a spectacular closing stretch to his second round, in which he birdied six of the final seven holes to get to 12 under par.<\/p>\n

Today, McIlroy is paired with American Sam Burns, who is in a share of second place with Patrick Reed on six under. They tee off at 7.50pm Irish time.<\/p>\n

Shane Lowry is in a tie for fourth on five under. Lowry is paired with Englishman Tommy Fleetwood and begins his third round at 7.28pm.<\/p>\n

US Masters Round Three Tee Times
(Irish time)<\/p>\n

2.31pm – Kurt Kitayama, Alex Noren<\/p>\n

2.42pm – Charl Schwartzel, Rasmus Hojgaard<\/p>\n

2.53pm – Jon Rahm, Si Woo Kim<\/p>\n

3.04pm – Brian Harman, Corey Conners<\/p>\n

3.15pm – Sergio Garcia, Maverick McNealy<\/p>\n

3.26pm – Keegan Bradley, Viktor Hovland<\/p>\n

3.37pm – Justin Thomas, Gary Woodland<\/p>\n

3.48pm – Samuel Stevens, Adam Scott<\/p>\n

4.10pm – Marco Penge, Matt McCarty<\/p>\n

4.21pm – Jordan Spieth, Sepp Straka<\/p>\n

4.32pm – Aaron Rai, Jacob Bridgeman<\/p>\n

4.43pm – Patrick Cantlay, Sungjae Im<\/p>\n

4:54pm – Dustin Johnson, Russell Henley,<\/p>\n

5.05pm – Harris English, Ryan Gerard<\/p>\n

5.16pm – Ludvig Aberg, Scottie Scheffler<\/p>\n

5.38pm – Collin Morikawa, Brian Campbell<\/p>\n

5.49pm – Nick Taylor, Matt Fitzpatrick<\/p>\n

6.00pm – Hideki Matsuyama, Michael Brennan<\/p>\n

6.11pm – Jake Knapp, Xander Schauffele<\/p>\n

6.22pm – Ben Griffin, Max Homa<\/p>\n

6.33pm – Chris Gotterup, Brooks Koepka<\/p>\n

6.55pm – Jason Day, Cameron Young<\/p>\n

7.06pm – Haotong Li, Kristoffer Reitan<\/p>\n

7.17pm – Wyndham Clark, Tyrrell Hatton<\/p>\n

7.28pm – Shane Lowry, Tommy Fleetwood<\/p>\n

7.39pm – Patrick Reed, Justin Rose<\/p>\n

7.50pm – Rory McIlroy, Sam Burns<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rory McIlroy resumes his Masters charge this evening, heading into his third round at Augusta with a commanding…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":393066,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":{"0":"post-393065","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\/393065","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=393065"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393065\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/393066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=393065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=393065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=393065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}