{"id":554001,"date":"2026-03-30T10:20:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-30T10:20:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/554001\/"},"modified":"2026-03-30T10:20:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T10:20:10","slug":"lowry-hits-another-ace-as-woodland-romps-to-texas-victory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/554001\/","title":{"rendered":"Lowry hits another ace as Woodland romps to Texas victory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Shane Lowry didn&#8217;t feature at the top of the leaderboard at the Texas Children&#8217;s Houston Open, but the Offaly man will have another memorable shot for his highlights reel.<\/p>\n<p>Starting his final round 13 shots behind eventual winner Gary Woodland, Lowry parred the opening hole before teeing up on the par-three second at Memorial Park Golf Course.<\/p>\n<p>Incredibly, the 38-year-old aced the 170 yard hole for his fourth hole-in-one on the PGA Tour.<\/p>\n<p>The 2019 Open champion had previously recorded hole-in-ones at the 16th at Augusta National (2016), 17th at TPC Sawgrass (2022) and seventh at Pebble Beach (2025).<\/p>\n<p>He also managed the feat at the 2014 DP World Tour Championship in Dubai and the 2018 Open at Walton Heath.<\/p>\n<p>Lowry eventually finished tied for 28th on on seven under after a round of 68.<\/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<p lang=\"en\">Got it done in ONE \u261d\ufe0f<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ShaneLowryGolf\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@ShaneLowryGolf<\/a> with his FOURTH hole-in-one on TOUR <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TCHouOpen\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@TCHouOpen<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udcfa PGA TOUR LIVE on ESPN+<\/p>\n<p>(Presented by <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TruGreen\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@TruGreen<\/a>) <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/T6YQT8xoBh\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/T6YQT8xoBh<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 PGA TOUR (@PGATOUR) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PGATOUR\/status\/2038271539087290772\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">March 29, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Woodland shot three-under-par 67 to win on the PGA Tour for the first time in nearly seven years.<\/p>\n<p>The American finished at 21under for four rounds at a course he shared second place at last year.<\/p>\n<p>Woodland won by five strokes over Denmark&#8217;s Nicolai Hojgaard, who carded 71 for the final round.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s Woodland&#8217;s fifth victory on the PGA Tour, but first since the 2019 US Open, and his first since undergoing brain surgery to remove a tumour in 2023. <\/p>\n<p>Woodland went four under on the front side to build a six-stroke advantage. <\/p>\n<p>When Hojgaard bogeyed 10, the margin moved to seven shots.<\/p>\n<p>                    <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Shane Lowry didn&#8217;t feature at the top of the leaderboard at the Texas Children&#8217;s Houston Open, but the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":554002,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71],"tags":[427,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-554001","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-golf","9":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554001","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=554001"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554001\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/554002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=554001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=554001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=554001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}