Shane Lowry - 2019 Champion Golfer of The Year (note first post please for posting guidance)

GreeBo

kmart6 wrote: »

Watching the CBS feed and thought the way they were speaking of Lowry for delaying play at the par 3 there was extremely disrespectful, as if he had no right to ask for a ruling and how how dare he delay Thomas.

Yeah it was very much as if a back marker was holding up the leader!

Meanwhile we got to watch Fowler's caddy rake a bunker rather than Lowry's tee shot on the next!

TheCitizen

kmart6 wrote: »

Watching the CBS feed and thought the way they were speaking of Lowry for delaying play at the par 3 there was extremely disrespectful, as if he had no right to ask for a ruling and how how dare he delay Thomas.

Yep. CBS commentators a right lot of aholes. Lowry was entitled to ask for a ruling. The TV coverage of this is a disgrace for a Major.

Minderbinder

Up to 139th in the fedex cup. I’m guessing he needs a win or maybe a top three might do it next week. Unlikely unless he can find something on a Sunday.

kiers47

Minderbinder wrote: »

Up to 139th in the fedex cup. I’m guessing he needs a win or maybe a top three might do it next week. Unlikely unless he can find something on a Sunday.

A solo top 5 will for sure get him in. Probably even a solo top 6 or better.
100 points for 6th which would land him on 396. He should get in with that. But it would depend on how the others close to the bubble get on.

kiers47

kmart6 wrote: »

Watching the CBS feed and thought the way they were speaking of Lowry for delaying play at the par 3 there was extremely disrespectful, as if he had no right to ask for a ruling and how how dare he delay Thomas.

That was poor alright. In fairness to Thomas in his interview after he defended Lowry and was putting blame on the rules officials for not making a call on it.

OEP

kiers47 wrote: »

Minderbinder wrote: »

Up to 139th in the fedex cup. I’m guessing he needs a win or maybe a top three might do it next week. Unlikely unless he can find something on a Sunday.

A solo top 5 will for sure get him in. Probably even a solo top 6 or better.
100 points for 6th which would land him on 396. He should get in with that. But it would depend on how the others close to the bubble get on.

Seamus Power is at 123 - if Lowry gets in I hope it's not at Seamus' expense

Rikand

OEP wrote: »

Seamus Power is at 123 - if Lowry gets in I hope it's not at Seamus' expense

Seamie has had bucketloads of chances to be secure and bottled them all. If he doesn't make it, he has none to blame but himself. If Shane makes it over Seamus it'll be because he took his chancesl

OEP

Rikand wrote: »

OEP wrote: »

Seamus Power is at 123 - if Lowry gets in I hope it's not at Seamus' expense

Seamie has had bucketloads of chances to be secure and bottled them all. If he doesn't make it, he has none to blame but himself. If Shane makes it over Seamus it'll be because he took his chancesl

I'm not saying he has anyone to blame, I just hope they both make it. I would prefer Seamus to get in but that's because I'm from the same area as him. Shane has had plenty of chances too

SeeMoreBut

Looks like a top 8 finish is required.

PGA expecting 375 total points required to make the playoffs.

Needs a good start tomorrow to give him a boost.

Power is on 376 so basically make the cut should be enough for him

AGC

SeeMoreBut wrote: »

Looks like a top 8 finish is required.

PGA expecting 375 total points required to make the playoffs.

Needs a good start tomorrow to give him a boost.

Power is on 376 so basically make the cut should be enough for him

Top 8 well within his limits after a bit of form last few weeks

FixdePitchmark

Just looking - there are guys who will have earned 3/4 of a million and will not got a card - amazing.

Just looking - if Shane was that tight , how come his number of events are so low 18 ?

He only played 6 in Europe too ?

Guys chasing are more up in the 26/27/28/29 events

loadwire

FixdePitchmark wrote: »

Just looking - there are guys who will have earned 3/4 of a million and will not got a card - amazing.

Just looking - if Shane was that tight , how come his number of events are so low 18 ?

He only played 6 in Europe too ?

Guys chasing are more up in the 26/27/28/29 events

Maybe with the baby he wanted to be working a bit less and misjudged it.

Adiaga 2

FixdePitchmark wrote: »

Just looking - there are guys who will have earned 3/4 of a million and will not got a card - amazing.

Just looking - if Shane was that tight , how come his number of events are so low 18 ?

He only played 6 in Europe too ?

Guys chasing are more up in the 26/27/28/29 events

He does seem to have the schedule of a world top 50 player even though he hasn't been there for a couple of years. He also said if he misses the FedEx top 125 this week, he will take 5-6 weeks off. I know there aren't many big events in Europe in that time but I'm surprised he wouldn't enter 1 or 2 ET events to try and boost his Euro ranking. Would he go for the web.com tour finals? Really expected Shane to have made a RC by now. Maybe next time.

Anyway, hope he gets the top-5 this week. Also, hope Seamus hangs on and progresses in the FedEx.

Mantis Toboggan

Nice Eagle on the 5th.

Huge week for him, hopefully he pulls it off.

martinkop

Is GMac playing for his card too? His exemptions must be nearly up now??

endabob1

Adiaga 2 wrote: »

He does seem to have the schedule of a world top 50 player even though he hasn't been there for a couple of years. He also said if he misses the FedEx top 125 this week, he will take 5-6 weeks off. I know there aren't many big events in Europe in that time but I'm surprised he wouldn't enter 1 or 2 ET events to try and boost his Euro ranking. Would he go for the web.com tour finals? Really expected Shane to have made a RC by now. Maybe next time.

Anyway, hope he gets the top-5 this week. Also, hope Seamus hangs on and progresses in the FedEx.

Slightly surprised at that as it is basically not playing till after the ryder cup. Fair enough there is then 3 big tournaments in a row, Duhill Links, British Masters & Sergios tournament
But he's striking distance of the top 60 in the RTD so thought if he missed the fed ex he would also play in Switzerland and portugal since he has won that in the past and maybe even in the dutch.... still I assume he knows what he's doing

kmart6

Tyson Fury wrote: »

Nice Eagle on the 5th.

Huge week for him, hopefully he pulls it off.

The fact it followed a bogey kinda takes away from it. Looking like he could be 7/8 shots behind afyer the 1st.

slave1

If anything he's done damage today to his chances, currently projected stuck on 139th, he needs to be advancing and making sure of the cut. V strong Friday required...

Mantis Toboggan

65 minimum needed tomorrow.

kmart6

Both of them screwed.

backspin.

He was interviewed on sky last night and said he was tired out in the course. Can he really be that fit at that weight. Maybe a fitness, weights program could help him.

SeeMoreBut

backspin. wrote: »

He was interviewed on sky last night and said he was tired out in the course. Can he really be that fit at that weight. Maybe a fitness, weights program could help him.

Mentally he must be tired.

He kind of felt like he had given up but felt like he'd be ok for invites next week and won't need to go to web.com finals.

I think he said he'd be back for Portugal no matter what happens this weekend.

AGC

backspin. wrote: »

He was interviewed on sky last night and said he was tired out in the course. Can he really be that fit at that weight. Maybe a fitness, weights program could help him.

This again?! Go 4 weeks in a row playing 16 competitive rounds, flights, hotels, early starts, practice, being in contention in a major and then go into a fifth week after and see how you get on.

There is a reason the only players that tend to play week in week out are te ones chasing their cards. Players just don’t do it because it is tough Work both physically and mentally .

GreeBo

AGC wrote: »

This again?! Go 4 weeks in a row playing 16 competitive rounds, flights, hotels, early starts, practice, being in contention in a major and then go into a fifth week after and see how you get on.

There is a reason the only players that tend to play week in week out are te ones chasing their cards. Players just don’t do it because it is tough Work both physically and mentally .

No doubt, which is why the fitter you are the better.

Interesting talk on RTE the other night with Gary Murphy and a few others, mentioned how Koepka was in poor shape when he played on the European tour and then decided to work on his conditioning to become the physical specimen that he is today.

slave1

AGC wrote: »

This again?! Go 4 weeks in a row playing 16 competitive rounds, flights, hotels, early starts, practice, being in contention in a major and then go into a fifth week after and see how you get on.

There is a reason the only players that tend to play week in week out are te ones chasing their cards. Players just don’t do it because it is tough Work both physically and mentally .

Good thing he wasn't around in the 40's and 50's so, plenty of 36hole days, indeed the PGA was 5+ days in a row of 36holes, that's 12 rounds in 7 days to win, and even if they won they would be back out the next week for more 36hole comps.
Also the majors were condensed so you could have three within 6/7 weeks and they were all long comps.

These guys are professionals, it's their job, they need to be mentally and physically fit for purpose.

PokeHerKing

AGC wrote:

This again?! Go 4 weeks in a row playing 16 competitive rounds, flights, hotels, early starts, practice, being in contention in a major and then go into a fifth week after and see how you get on.

AGC wrote:

There is a reason the only players that tend to play week in week out are te ones chasing their cards. Players just don’t do it because it is tough Work both physically and mentally .

Are you saying carrying an extra 4/5 stone of fat is not detrimental to your overall fitness and stamina?

techdiver

SeeMoreBut wrote: »

Mentally he must be tired.

He kind of felt like he had given up but felt like he'd be ok for invites next week and won't need to go to web.com finals.

I think he said he'd be back for Portugal no matter what happens this weekend.

Sorry, could you explain this? I thought his card was gone if he didn't make the top 125 and doesn't come through the web.com playoffs?

Does he mean next season he has invites banked for most events or something?

callaway92

PokeHerKing wrote: »

Are you saying carrying an extra 4/5 stone of fat is not detrimental to your overall fitness and stamina?

Be careful - I got some load of abuse for pointing this out too.

SeeMoreBut

techdiver wrote: »

Sorry, could you explain this? I thought his card was gone if he didn't make the top 125 and doesn't come through the web.com playoffs?

Does he mean next season he has invites banked for most events or something?

He was saying along the lines he'd be in some different category and that he'd get into a lot of the events.

I guess the big ones like players etc he won't get into.

Next year instead of week I meant

AGC

PokeHerKing wrote: »

Are you saying carrying an extra 4/5 stone of fat is not detrimental to your overall fitness and stamina?

4/5 stone is stretching it a bit.

Not sure if Shane still does work with Robbie Cannon or not but I’m sure what he focuses on is the right thing.

I have played golf with lads who would be playing to a high level of GAA and physically in great shape and are shattered after a game of golf. You work on what you need to get around.

Very easy for lads to sit here and comment on what they don’t know about. A guy who has been on the road for 5 weeks says he’s tired and lads jump all over it. I do a long week in work and I’m bo**oxed myself.

I better hit the gym.....