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

I don’t think Perez is going to be a factor. The 2.115 points he picked up yesterday are the first world ranking points he’s earned since the World Matchplay back in March. This translates to 4.23 points in the Ryder Cup World Points list and leaves him 23.29 points behind Shane. Having said that, the fields for the upcoming European Tour events are not that strong and a win by Perez or Wiesberger would put the cat among the pigeons.

Justin Rose missed a short par putt on the 18th yesterday and this cost him a place in the playoffs, finishing just one place outside the top 125. This is going to make it difficult for him to earn enough points to qualify automatically, although I guess he could enter some of the upcoming European Tour events if he wants to make the team badly enough. And the final ranking event has a lot of World Ranking points at stake (64 for the winner), so a win there would certainly be enough to qualify any of the players currently on the fringes on the team.

The key issue is that Shane won’t make the team (as a pick or otherwise) unless he plays well and picks up a decent number of points over the next four weeks. Doing well enough next week to make the top 70 is very important as otherwise he is likely to end up needing a high finish in the BMW PGA Championship.

Rose's decent performance at the weekend certainly wont have helped Shane if he needs a pick.Would it be correct to say currently the biggest danger to Shane is Hovland getting knocked off European list and replacing Shane on the World list.

I think Shane will qualify comfortably on merit. If he somehow doesn't qualify it would be very hard to justify him getting a pick, as Ryder Cup experience and matchplay pedigree usually win the day.

Yeah Lowry is one of the worst putters on the PGA Tour according to the stats, hence why he not in as many contending positions as often as he should be , no matter how well he is playing with the rest of his game. When he is playing well and has a good putting week, he is hard to beat. He is 190th out of 206 PGA tour professionals for 3 putt avoidance in 2021. I reckon Shane will be a great asset to Ryder cup though, he relishes being in the heat of battle and has the temperment to thrive

battled back to level par,think he will go better tomorrow,double on the first would rattle most.

Shane will make the team no matter what. He'd prefer to make it auto but I think he is a cert for a pick. He'll probably play fourball's

I was wondering his start yesterday was he regretting his journey back from a golfing prep perspective.

Mission 1 is to make the cut.

If he makes it next week he will lose his points for open win would be 6.5 after next week.

That's a collection of putts that could make him feel invisible on the greens today. Hopefully a mid 60s round is on the cards.

Serious brainfart on the par 5 if shot tracker is to be believed

Birdie on 17 to bring him back to 4 under. Much better today and great to see 😊

MacIntyre is playing the korn ferry this week so his priority is getting a PGA card. Second highest ranked player in the field but points are less than Czech masters, 1 shot outside the predicted cut with 3 holes left.

May need a big BMW when he returns which would be playing 9 weeks out of 10 if he plays the 3 Korn Ferry events.

Eagle for Shane, -4 on his round through 7. Some really low scores out there today, be great if he was one of them.

Incredible round, 9 under for the day and -13 in the clubhouse!

Can we all just quit with this nonsense that he might not be worthy of a Ryder Cup pick, if by some quirk he doesn't qualify automatically please?