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

He has a 5 year tour card exemption from the Open, so he's good through 23/24

Of course he'd love a win and he might even win the PGA in a couple of weeks.

I just don't think he'll be chasing weakened fields to get it. His schedule will be based around performing his best in the biggest events.

I imagine he'll take a break after the Ryder Cup and play the HSBC, if he needs a tune up for that he'll play one of the PGA events.

He didn't play the DP championships at the end of last year because he wanted to spend time with his family and it'll be similar again this year

hard not to see Wiesberger getting the 100 odd points he needs to overtake Rory so looks like Shane will need a pick.I think he will get the nod ahead of Rose as he has been probably the second best European player behind Rahm on PGA over last 3/4 months ,maybe Casey or Poulter run him close .Sergio, Poulter and Shane for me.I would imagine Haro is raging Rory isnt playing BMW as he does well there and would likely out score Wiesberger and keep Shane in.

Bit of a reach with that comment really, considering his win was in an alternate field event and his best finish this year besides the win was 8th. He's done well, but let's not kid ourselves by claiming he has been the 2nd best European.

I think you need to take the strength of the fields into account. If we look at the number of world ranking points each of them has earned since the beginning of May, Shane has earned 68.46 points compared to 51.72 for Seamus.

Take out the majors that Seamus wasn't in and it's 51.72 to something like 23.

Like Shane got 11 points for tied 12th in the Open and 23 for tied 4th in the PGA Championship. Hell he even got 1.5 points for tied 65th in the US Open.

He wasn't in them because he didn't play well enough to be in them. We all know that. We are specfically talking about form from May this year. You stlll haven't name one European golfer with anything like the consistent performances on the PGA tour that Seamus has had in that time frame.

Yes, I just mentioned that he's been the best European on the tour since May. I don't know why people were getting so defensive. I'm a huge fan of Shane, I'm not taking away from him in any way by saying what I am. I'm delighted for Seamus too.

I don't care about the Ryder Cup personally, it seems like a complete joke to me. I find it hard to believe that most of the golfers really care about it. Most of these guys live and practice together in the US these days. It's not like back in the day when most Europeans played on the European tour.

Nobody is disputing that Seamus has played well over the past few months, and his performances are doubly commendable when you consider the pressure he was under to retain his card. And he could well move a lot further up the world rankings with the freedom he will have to pick and choose a schedule that suits him. And it would be great to see him playing in a future Ryder Cup.

But you can't ignore the fact that Shane played well in the majors, making the cut in all three and finishing tied 4th and tied 12th in two of them. Now we just have to hope that either Wiesberger blows up or Shane does enough at the BMW PGA Championship to hold onto an automatic spot or at least does enough to convince Padraig to give him a wild card.

I think Casey can possibly do Paddy a favour at Wentworth and keep Shane in the team. Think Shane has big chance of winning at Wentworth himself tbh.

I give you a solid 3/10 for that effort Eagle Eye. Definite room for improvement

Well Fitzpatrick too, if either of them keeps Wiesenberger out of the European points list top 4, Shane stays in on the World list

What are you suggesting? I'm being serious. Big fan of Shane, obviously because I've played that hilly fecking course many times. I'm sure you have too.

I hate the Ryder Cup and I've explained why. A group of pals representing two continents suddenly don't like each other. I'm sorry you aren't fooling me.

As I said, it was different years ago when the majority of European players played on the European tour and lived in Europe. Now most live in the US and are great friends with many of the top American golfers. How can you suddenly want to be a European? And what even is a European, there's no identity to Europe, you've got the EU and then some countries who maintain their independence but are part of the free trade agreement. You've got a few who aren't even involved with the EU and multiple different languages.

On top of all that I'd much rather see Brooks Koepka win unless he's playing against Shane or Rory. I can't stand Poulter, Hatton or Westwood and I'm not a huge fan of Sergio either. I couldn't shout for them.

That's good news, you'd expect Matt to outperform Bernd over the two weeks, not certain by any means, but a good chance