{"id":393656,"date":"2026-04-11T18:59:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-11T18:59:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/393656\/"},"modified":"2026-04-11T18:59:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-11T18:59:10","slug":"the-masters-day-three-rory-mcilroy-aims-to-build-on-big-lead-at-augusta-national-with-shane-lowry-in-the-hunt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/393656\/","title":{"rendered":"The Masters Day Three: Rory McIlroy aims to build on big lead at Augusta National, with Shane Lowry in the hunt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Man on fire: McIlroy burns it up at Augusta | Masters Daily<\/p>\n<p>What Rory McIlroy did at Augusta on Friday will be remembered forever, Conor McKeon tells Paul Kimmage. McIlroy is six shots clear at the half-way stage, which is a Masters record and Conor and Paul look back on an extraordinary round by the reigning champion.<\/p>\n<p>There are two other Irishmen in the field and Paul believes Shane Lowry\u2019s second round on 69 \u2013 which leaves him tied for fourth \u2013 was one of the best of the Offaly man\u2019s career.<\/p>\n<p>For more, visit https:\/\/www.independent.ie\/sport<\/p>\n<p>#TheMasters #Golf #RoryMcIlroy #ShaneLowry<\/p>\n<p>Irish Independent, youtube.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Man on fire: McIlroy burns it up at Augusta | Masters Daily What Rory McIlroy did at Augusta&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":393657,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,1394,1395,112,170752],"class_list":{"0":"post-393656","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\/393656","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=393656"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393656\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/393657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=393656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=393656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=393656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}