{"id":96625,"date":"2025-10-01T10:04:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-01T10:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/96625\/"},"modified":"2025-10-01T10:04:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-01T10:04:09","slug":"meet-the-irish-teenager-who-got-his-hands-on-the-ball-from-shane-lowrys-iconic-ryder-cup-putt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/96625\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet the Irish teenager who got his hands on the ball from Shane Lowry\u2019s iconic Ryder Cup putt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Milo Lennon pictured with Shane Lowry's winning ball from the Ryder Cup and Chelsea legend Gianfranco Zola\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/25dc74e8-ebe8-4b2d-bbd6-e0d46ddd265c.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Milo Lennon pictured with Shane Lowry&#8217;s winning ball from the Ryder Cup and Chelsea legend Gianfranco Zola<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">13-year-old Irish teenager Milo Lennon has suddenly found himself the owner of one of the great pieces of Irish sporting memorabilia this week after he was presented with the ball from Shane Lowry\u2019s iconic and instantly memorable Ryder Cup retaining putt at Bethpage in New York on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Milo, whose mom Maeve hails from the Meadowlands Estate in Tralee, calls himself \u201ca proud Kerry man\u201d, so much so that he was sporting a retro Kerry jersey on the day alongside his Kildare native dad, Garvan, who donned a 1982 Offaly jersey for the occasion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Milo Lennon pictured with Shane Lowry&#8217;s winning ball from the Ryder Cup and Chelsea legend Gianfranco Zola 13-year-old&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":96626,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[18,887,19,17,5948,5951,132],"class_list":{"0":"post-96625","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-eire","9":"tag-fergus-dennehy","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-ryder-cup","13":"tag-shane-lowry","14":"tag-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96625","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=96625"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96625\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/96626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}