{"id":426288,"date":"2026-02-15T01:40:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-15T01:40:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/426288\/"},"modified":"2026-02-15T01:40:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-15T01:40:07","slug":"mcilroy-falters-as-lowry-shoots-67-at-pebble-beach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/426288\/","title":{"rendered":"McIlroy falters as Lowry shoots 67 at Pebble Beach"},"content":{"rendered":"

A third-round 72 extinguished any hopes of a Sunday challenge the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am for Rory McIlroy, but Shane Lowry enjoyed a much better outing to sit just outside the top 10.<\/p>\n

Sitting half a dozen shots off the lead at the halfway stage, McIlroy felt a decent Saturday would boost his chances of success, but a triple-bogey at the fourth, preceded by successive birdies, effectively killed off those aspirations.<\/p>\n

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A wayward tee shot on four was compounded by his failure to escape trouble from the dropped shot. A second bite at the cherry only found the greenside bunker and that too proved a challenge. In truth he was fortunate to escape with only a seven.<\/p>\n

Successive birdies proved a decent response as he reached the turn at one-under par, but another dropped shot at the 10th halted any momentum.<\/p>\n

Birdies at 14 and 15 were given back at the last where another errant drive was severely punished and ensured a double bogey for a roller-coaster round of 72 and among a group of players tied for 39th on nine-under par, 10 shots adrift of leader Akshay Bhatia.<\/p>\n

It was a better day at the office for Lowry, who carded seven birdies on his way to a five-under-par 67.<\/p>\n

The Offaly man began in fine style, picking up shots in the opening three holes before going out of bounds off the tee at the fifth on his way to a bogey.<\/p>\n

Lowry three-putted his way to another bogey at the ninth, but three more birdies on the back nine has the 2019 Open winner tied for 12th on 13-under par.<\/p>\n

Sitting on 19-under par, Bhatia takes a two-shot lead into the final round over Collin Morikawa, Sepp Straka and Jake Knapp, with American Jacob Bridgeman a further shot back.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A third-round 72 extinguished any hopes of a Sunday challenge the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am for Rory McIlroy,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":426289,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[5904,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-426288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-golf","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426288","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=426288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426288\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/426289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=426288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=426288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=426288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}