{"id":393854,"date":"2026-04-11T22:07:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-11T22:07:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/393854\/"},"modified":"2026-04-11T22:07:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-11T22:07:07","slug":"lowry-lands-second-masters-hole-in-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/393854\/","title":{"rendered":"Lowry lands second Masters hole-in-one"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Shane Lowry secured a piece of Masters history with an ace at the sixth at Augusta National, the second time the Offaly man has claimed a hole-in-one at the iconic venue.<\/p>\n<p>The Offaly man, who began the third round in a tie for fourth and nine shots adrift of leader Rory McIlroy, started well with a birdie at the second to move to six under.<\/p>\n<p>Things improved dramatically however at the 190-yard par-3 sixth when his crafted shot found the hole, much to the delight of those watching on. It moved the 2019 Open champion to eight under, four shots adrift of McIlroy.<\/p>\n<p>The 39-year-old becomes the first player to manage the feat at Augusta on more than one occasion. Lowry&#8217;s hole-in-one in the 2016 tournament came at the 16th, a tournament where he finished tied for 39th on 10 over.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\">Needing one stroke on No. 6, Shane Lowry cards an ace. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/themasters\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">#themasters<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/SAr9uy2KBs\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/SAr9uy2KBs<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 The Masters (@TheMasters) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheMasters\/status\/2043052578456428670\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">April 11, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>It marks Lowry&#8217;s second ace of the season after doing likewise at the recent Texas Children&#8217;s Houston Open and adds to Lowry&#8217;s reputation as something of a hole-in-one specialist.<\/p>\n<p>He has also aced the 17th at Sawgrass, in 2022, and the short seventh at Pebble Beach, in January 2025, two of the most famous par threes in golf.<\/p>\n<p>                    <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Shane Lowry secured a piece of Masters history with an ace at the sixth at Augusta National, the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":393855,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-393854","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393854","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=393854"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393854\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/393855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=393854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=393854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=393854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}