{"id":394373,"date":"2026-04-12T07:05:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-12T07:05:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/394373\/"},"modified":"2026-04-12T07:05:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-12T07:05:07","slug":"hole-in-one-specialist-shane-lowry-does-it-again-at-augusta-national","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/394373\/","title":{"rendered":"Hole-in-one specialist Shane Lowry does it again at Augusta National"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hole-in-one specialist Shane Lowry recorded the first ace of this year\u2019s Masters tournament at the sixth hole.<\/p>\n<p>The Irishman has quite the collection of ones on his CV and this was his second at Augusta National.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Needing one stroke on No. 6, Shane Lowry cards an ace. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/themasters?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" 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?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">April 11, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Lowry\u2019s tee shot at the 190-yard hole catapulted him to within four of the lead held by close friend Rory McIlroy, having pitched below the hole and taken a couple of bounces before rolling in for only the seventh ace at that hole in the tournament\u2019s history.<\/p>\n<p>His previous hole-in-one here came at the 16th in the final round of 2016. It was also his second ace in a month after recording one at March\u2019s Texas Children\u2019s Houston Open.<\/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":"Hole-in-one specialist Shane Lowry recorded the first ace of this year\u2019s Masters tournament at the sixth hole. The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":394374,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":["post-394373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394373","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=394373"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394373\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/394374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=394373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=394373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=394373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}