{"id":497092,"date":"2026-03-26T21:40:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-26T21:40:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/497092\/"},"modified":"2026-03-26T21:40:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T21:40:07","slug":"lowry-finishes-strongly-on-mixed-opening-day-in-houston","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/497092\/","title":{"rendered":"Lowry finishes strongly on mixed opening day in Houston"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Shane Lowry managed two birdies in the last seven holes to finish under par after his first round at the Houston Open in Texas.<\/p>\n<p>The Offaly man managed a 71 after mixing an earlier birdie on the 12th hole &#8211; his third &#8211; with bogeys on the 13th and 2nd holes.<\/p>\n<p>It leaves him on one under, which was good enough for a tie for 25th as he walked off the course, with only around half of the field having started their rounds.<\/p>\n<p>Sam Burns, of the United States, and England&#8217;s Paul Waring share the lead on five under par, a stroke clear of the chasing pack.<\/p>\n<p>S\u00e9amus Power is due to start his round at around 5:45pm Irish time, having received <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rte.ie\/sport\/golf\/2026\/0324\/1565054-power-heading-to-houston-as-scheffler-withdraws\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">a late call up for the event<\/a> after a raft of late withdrawals, including that of world number one Scottie Scheffler.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rte.ie\/sport\/results\/golf\/pga-tour-1\/28348\/houston-open-908472\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Full leaderboard<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Shane Lowry managed two birdies in the last seven holes to finish under par after his first round&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":497093,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[5904,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-497092","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\/497092","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=497092"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497092\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/497093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=497092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=497092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=497092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}