{"id":395558,"date":"2026-04-13T01:54:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T01:54:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/395558\/"},"modified":"2026-04-13T01:54:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T01:54:09","slug":"rory-mcilroy-retains-his-masters-title-at-augusta-national-to-claim-sixth-career-major","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/395558\/","title":{"rendered":"Rory McIlroy retains his Masters title at Augusta National to claim sixth career Major"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Golf - The Masters - Augusta National Golf Club, Augusta, Georgia, U.S. - April 12, 2026&#10;Northern Ireland's Rory McIlroy with his caddie Harry Diamond as he celebrates with his green jacket and the trophy after winning The Masters REUTERS\/Brian Snyder\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/1f900e5a-07da-4e85-b5cc-cc947fbcea64.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Golf &#8211; The Masters &#8211; Augusta National Golf Club, Augusta, Georgia, U.S. &#8211; April 12, 2026<br \/>\nNorthern Ireland&#8217;s Rory McIlroy with his caddie Harry Diamond as he celebrates with his green jacket and the trophy after winning The Masters REUTERS\/Brian Snyder<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Rory McIlroy etched his name alongside the Masters legends and edged closer to the upper slopes of golf\u2019s Mount Olympus when he became just the fourth man to win back-to-back green jackets at Augusta National.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">The Holywood superstar (36) overcame losing a record six-shot halfway lead in round three and covering his opening six holes in two-over-par to play the remaining 12 in three-under to shoot 71 to win by one stroke from Scottie Scheffler on 12-under par.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Golf &#8211; The Masters &#8211; Augusta National Golf Club, Augusta, Georgia, U.S. &#8211; April 12, 2026 Northern Ireland&#8217;s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":395559,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[7938,42,43,1394,1395,40,38,41,39,170752],"class_list":{"0":"post-395558","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-brian-keogh","9":"tag-headlines","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-rory-mcilroy","12":"tag-shane-lowry","13":"tag-top-news","14":"tag-top-stories","15":"tag-topnews","16":"tag-topstories","17":"tag-us-masters"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395558","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=395558"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395558\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/395559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=395558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=395558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=395558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}