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

Now at 13 over after a double bogey and another triple bogey. If I’m reading the website correctly, he took 5 to get down from 42 feet at the 17th. What the hell happened?

After making the cut on the number, it was either 68 or 80 for the 3rd round. Sadly it was closer to the latter.

Come home Shane. Nothing like an Irish open trophy for the mantle piece.

He's been out of form since winning the Open.
Hopefully he gets back on track soon.

The exemptions his Open win have given him has probably allowed him to take his foot off the gas a little. He’ll struggle enormously when they run out. He’s at an age and experience level where he should have been able to kick on.

Skipping Wentworth and not playing in Europe for a few weeks. Just two top 10s since Portrush, hopefully gets back to his best after a break.

eagle eye wrote: »

I don't like to criticise but he was on fire in the British open and if that was me I'd have been straight over to the Fed-Ex Cup the next week but he gave it a miss and went on the beer for a week.
I think he's missing the discipline and hunger to make the most of his talents.

This kinda thing, and the previous comment by another poster about his weight wrecks my head. He does more from a fitness and practice perspective in a couple of days than most normal people could manage in a week.

Yep he’s clearly not got the physique of Rory or Brooks or DJ, but he’s won a major, a WGC and a bunch of higher end European tour events doing it his way with his body shape. There was a time about 5/6 years back he did get overly heavy, but he snapped out of that and when you see him in the flesh he looks quite athletic compared to the normal Joe soap, just not next to the modern tour pro.

Talk like someone had above that he will struggle when his exemptions run out, like in all fairness, he has 4 more years of exemptions to all the majors, and he’s won enough money on both tours to probably not have to worry about getting invites for at least 5 more years even if his form did fall off a cliff. He has had fallow periods before and never failed to come back. He has changed driver, and spent the last 2 months in America away form his wife and child, whilst still being respectable with his scoring.

Though he comes across as being very well liked, I feel sometimes like the Irish golfing public see him as a bit of a lazy beer hound who takes it easy and turns up once a year with a big performance, and then goes back to just slapping it around the course 30 weeks a year and going for scoops and a burger after. Nothing could be further form the truth.

GreeBo wrote: »

Why compare him to a normal person though?
Compare him to elite golfers, unless you are happy for him to perform like a normal person on the golf course...

I’m highlighting to keyboard warriors that accuse him of not working hard enough that he works harder than they will ever know. Just because he isnt ripped doesn’t mean he isn’t fit enough and strong enough to compete, and people using that as an accusation are being lazy in the comparison.

If you’ve ever heard Robbie Cannon speak about his fitness levels and capabilities you’ll know he does the work that needs to be done

He made it to the top 70 in the pga tour playoffs (BMW was it?) having played the third or fourth fewest events of anyone that made it. His form wasn’t that bad, even if he hasn’t competed for victory too often.

hurleronditch wrote:

This kinda thing, and the previous comment by another poster about his weight wrecks my head. He does more from a fitness and practice perspective in a couple of days than most normal people could manage in a week.

I never mentioned his physique. I mentioned something that actually happened which is him going on the beer for a week after winning the Open. I said if it was me I'd have been on a plane over to play in the Fed-ex and I'd have celebrated at a more suitable time.
That whole episode showed a lack of discipline and hunger.

BoardsMember wrote: »

I think you're right, to an extent. In our own world, if you win the captains prize and there is another club major the next week, some people qoukd be out keeping the chipping, putting, driving sharp, determined to keep the roll going. Or, it it was Sunday, and work tomorrow, you'd take it easy.

On the other hand, if something happened to you that was so big, something that you never really imagined would happen, something your kids kids would be known for, and would set you up and change your life forever...and you love enjoying life....then you might just say fck it.

He probably knew himself that he'd struggle to give a sh1t in the FedEx, which made going there worthless. Whether that is a lack of discipline or hunger, or something else, is a subjective thing really.

Won the captains myself recently.
Went on the beer for a few days.
Another club major the following week......... won it
Got some nice cuts to the handicap.
.1back every singles game since

Ever hear of something called form?

benny79 wrote: »

The likes of Brooks JT and Rory are like robots and if Shane was slimmer there wouldn't even be a mention of him going on the beer. But rest assured Id say hes fitter than most and most pros. A lot of Pro's dont even do the gym but because their physic is slim, theres not a word.. Plus how do we know the others dont? It was and probably will be the biggest achievement of his career. What he dreamed about as a kid! why on earth wouldn't he celebrate it! It wouldn't be the same celebrating at a later stage as the Europa would of passed.

Like when City lost and Liverpool won the league It was a Thursday night I went on the piss stayed up drinking and dancing till 5 in the morning with work the next day! When we actually lifted the trophy I only had a few beers as the moment had passed.

Its the ones that dont celebrate and travel or are playing the next day that drive me nuts! Life is to short..

"When we lifted the trophy", amazing that we have a Liverpool player on boards

And here. YNWA. Looks like half the team may be here...

GreeBo wrote: »

Well 'pool supporters and golfers have a lot in common...years of disappointment broken up with flashes of occasional brilliance that lead to a false sense of ability and expectation :pac:

Ah here, no need for that!

Jesus, Lowry three putts from a few feet to bogey a par 5.