{"id":378132,"date":"2026-01-19T07:35:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-19T07:35:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/378132\/"},"modified":"2026-01-19T07:35:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-19T07:35:07","slug":"shane-lowry-chips-into-water-at-72nd-hole-to-blow-lead-as-elvira-wins-in-dubai-european-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/378132\/","title":{"rendered":"Shane Lowry chips into water at 72nd hole to blow lead as Elvira wins in Dubai | European Tour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Shane Lowry blew a one-shot lead on the last hole as Nacho Elvira recovered to claim victory in a dramatic finish to the Dubai Invitational.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Lowry, who had started the final round in a tie for second, two strokes behind the Spaniard, barged into the lead after a birdie on the 15th and appeared to have the title at his mercy. But the Irishman found both bunker and water on the 18th, finishing with a double bogey that shattered his hopes and allowed Elvira, who had struggled early in the round, to duly par the 18th for victory.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Elvira finished on a 10-under par total of 274, one shot in front of the fast-finishing Daniel Hillier of New Zealand, with Lowry a further shot back in a tie for third with three more players, including <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/rory-mcilroy\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" data-component=\"auto-linked-tag\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Rory McIlroy<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">McIlroy, who started the final round three shots off the lead, forced his way into contention as Elvira faltered, and briefly held a share of an increasingly crowded leaderboard after a run of birdies.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Lowry, bidding for his first DP World Tour title since winning the 2022 BMW PGA Championship, looked to have made the decisive move with a 25-foot birdie on the 15th to move into the lead, and when McIlroy pulled his birdie chance wide on the 17th, he set up a golden opportunity for his close friend.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">But moments after Lowry had powered his much too powerful second shot on the 18th into the water, Elvira birdied the 17th to seize control. Hillier, whose six-under-par final round of 65 had thrust him into contention, had been holding out hope of a playoff, but Elvira, who had seen his overnight lead wiped out after successive early bogeys, held firm.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">England\u2019s Marcus Armitage, another who briefly shared the lead, fell away with bogeys on the 12th and 14th and a double bogey on the last to finish four strokes off the lead in a tie for seventh.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Elvira told Sky Sports: \u201cIt means the world. If you had told me on Tuesday that I was going to be winning this I would never have believed you. It is a dream come true.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Shane Lowry blew a one-shot lead on the last hole as Nacho Elvira recovered to claim victory in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":378133,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-378132","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\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=378132"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378132\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/378133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=378132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=378132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=378132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}