{"id":560951,"date":"2026-05-01T17:44:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T17:44:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/560951\/"},"modified":"2026-05-01T17:44:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T17:44:11","slug":"mixed-fortunes-leave-lowry-eight-off-pace-in-miami","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/560951\/","title":{"rendered":"Mixed fortunes leave Lowry eight off pace in Miami"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Shane Lowry endured mixed fortunes in his opening round at the Cadillac Championship in Miami, Florida.<\/p>\n<p>The Offaly man carded a level par 72 around the Trump National Doral&#8217;s Blue Monster course to sit in a tie just inside the top 40, eight shots behind clubhouse leader Cameron Young.<\/p>\n<p>Lowry, who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rte.ie\/sport\/golf\/2026\/0424\/1570056-zurich-classic-round-two-report-shane-lowry-brooks-koepka-seamus-power-matti-schmid\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">missed the cut at last week&#8217;s Zurich Classic alongside fellow major winner Brooks Koepka<\/a>, made a strong start on Thursday with back-to-back birdies in his opening two holes.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rte.ie\/sport\/results\/golf\/pga-tour-1\/28348\/cadillac-championship-908476\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">FULL LEADERBOARD<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Those gains had been wiped out by the turn however, following bogeys on four and six. Another on the ninth left him one over.<\/p>\n<p>Lowry bounced back quickly though with a birdie on 10 before briefly going under par again with another 12.<\/p>\n<p>But he ultimately had to settle for level par after dropping a shot on 15.<\/p>\n<p>World number four Young leads the way on eight under after a bogey free 64, with the American one shot clear of Alex Smalley and three-time major winner Jordan Spieth.<\/p>\n<p>Nick Taylor is fourth on six under, while Nicolas Echavarria has sole possession of fifth after a five-under 67.<\/p>\n<p>World No. 1 Scottie Scheffler is only one stroke better than Lowry after posting a one under par 71. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Shane Lowry endured mixed fortunes in his opening round at the Cadillac Championship in Miami, Florida. The Offaly&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":560952,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[5904,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-560951","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\/560951","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=560951"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560951\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/560952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=560951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=560951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=560951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}