{"id":395059,"date":"2026-04-12T17:54:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-12T17:54:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/395059\/"},"modified":"2026-04-12T17:54:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-12T17:54:08","slug":"the-masters-day-four-rory-mcilroy-and-shane-lowry-go-for-green-jacket-glory-at-augusta-national","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/395059\/","title":{"rendered":"The Masters Day Four: Rory McIlroy and Shane Lowry go for green jacket glory at Augusta National"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Searching for an omen<\/p>\n<p>The last time Rory McIlroy walked off the 18th green disappointed to be tied for the lead at -11, he followed it with the greatest moment of his professional life.<\/p>\n<p>-11 was the mark after 72 holes in 2025 and McIlroy responded brilliantly to take control of the playoff with Justin Rose.<\/p>\n<p>McIlroy will be reunited with Cameron Young; they played together in the opening two rounds and this scenario looked very unlikely in the early stages of Thursday when the American was in danger of missing the cut.<\/p>\n<p>This is far from a head to head, though. Sam Burns played quite well today and is one back, while Shane Lowry is nicely positioned if he can get off to a flier.<\/p>\n<p>Jason Day and Justin Rose are a veteran pairing at -8 while Scottie Scheffler and Haotong Li are a familiar combination at -7.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>They played alongside each other in the final round at Portrush last year and were spotted laughing and joking as Scheffler fired his way to glory.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe that&#8217;s an omen too<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Searching for an omen The last time Rory McIlroy walked off the 18th green disappointed to be tied&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":395060,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,1394,1395,112,170752],"class_list":{"0":"post-395059","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\/395059","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=395059"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395059\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/395060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=395059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=395059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=395059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}