{"id":393883,"date":"2026-04-11T22:35:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-11T22:35:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/393883\/"},"modified":"2026-04-11T22:35:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-11T22:35:09","slug":"the-masters-day-three-rory-mcilroy-loses-big-lead-at-augusta-national-as-shane-lowry-hits-ace-to-close-gap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/393883\/","title":{"rendered":"The Masters Day Three: Rory McIlroy loses big lead at Augusta National, as Shane Lowry hits ace to close gap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lowry &gt; Li<\/p>\n<p>A shaky first putt at 16 from Lowry but an assured second means he leaves the par 3 with the regulation score.<\/p>\n<p>Haotong Li has dropped down the board, alas. A bogey at 18 means he posts a 69 to finish up at -7<\/p>\n<p>Jason Day shot 68 for -8. A fine score overshadowed by his playing partner, Young.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re wondering where a few other players have disappeared to&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Tommy Fleetwood hasn&#8217;t got anything going and is +1 for the day and -4 overall &#8211; tied for 16th in a posse that includes Xander Schauffele and Brooks Koepka<\/p>\n<p>Tyrrell Hatton is +1 for the day and -3 but he&#8217;s still the top LIV man. Tied for 20th.<\/p>\n<p>Matt Fitzpatrick shot 70 for -3<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lowry &gt; Li A shaky first putt at 16 from Lowry but an assured second means he leaves&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":393884,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,1394,1395,112,170752],"class_list":["post-393883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-rory-mcilroy","tag-shane-lowry","tag-sports","tag-us-masters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393883","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=393883"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393883\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/393884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=393883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=393883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=393883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}