{"id":340088,"date":"2026-02-16T11:43:06","date_gmt":"2026-02-16T11:43:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/340088\/"},"modified":"2026-02-16T11:43:06","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T11:43:06","slug":"shane-lowry-and-rory-mcilroy-shine-on-final-day-at-pebble-beach-as-morikawa-wins-title-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/340088\/","title":{"rendered":"Shane Lowry and Rory McIlroy shine on final day at Pebble Beach as Morikawa wins title \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"

Shane Lowry<\/a> and Rory McIlroy<\/a> had pleasing final days at the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am on the PGA Tour<\/a>, if ultimately too far back to threaten the champion Collin Morikawa.<\/p>\n

Lowry continued his good form with a top 10 finish and a five-under-par 67 for an 18 under total, coming home in 32 shots. It is his fifth time in the top 12 in his last six events worldwide.<\/p>\n

McIlroy had a mixed week as defending champion but he impressed on the final day with an eight-under-par 64, which featured eight birdies and no bogeys.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere was a couple of destructive tee shots yesterday but everything feels in pretty good shape,\u201d said McIlroy, who finished tied 14th.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut all-in-all some really good stuff this week and I\u2019m pretty encouraged going into next week for sure.\u201d<\/p>\n

One shot better than McIlroy on Sunday was world number one Scottie Scheffler, who made a remarkable final-round charge, including a stunning eagle on the par 5 18th when he hit a 186-yard iron approach to within three feet. After a 63, Scheffler held the clubhouse lead when he concluded his round, but finished tied fourth, two shots behind.<\/p>\n

Morikawa secured his first PGA Tour victory since 2023 after a birdie at the last gave him a one-shot win over Sepp Straka and Min Woo Lee.<\/p>\n

\u201cPebble Beach was always a course that you just wanted to come and play,\u201d Morikawa said. \u201cYou wanted to come and play against the pros and the best in the world. … I\u2019m going \u200bto enjoy this one for sure. We\u2019re at Pebble Beach, so I\u2019m going to enjoy this one.\u201d <\/p>\n

It was an adventurous final stretch for the American. He took the lead \u2060with birdies on 15 and 16 before dropping back with a bogey on the par-3 17th. He had a long wait after his tee shot \u200con \u200cthe \u200bpar-5 18th as his playing partner Jacob Bridgeman was in trouble.<\/p>\n

His second shot into the par 5 was just to the right of the green, but he rolled the ball to within a few feet and then finished the job.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Shane Lowry and Rory McIlroy had pleasing final days at the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am on the PGA…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":340089,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[18,19,17,14408,5952,5950,5951,132],"class_list":{"0":"post-340088","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-eire","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland","11":"tag-pga-tour","12":"tag-rory-mcilroy","13":"tag-scottie-scheffler","14":"tag-shane-lowry","15":"tag-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340088","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=340088"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340088\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/340089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=340088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=340088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=340088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}