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

His approach to putting is interesting. No reads from caddie, quick walk around and then hit it based on feel mainly. While it is easy to criticise other golfers who follow more elaborate processes and have putting coaches the margins are so fine at the top level you'd wonder if he did have a more exacting process would it help him

SL needs to lose a serious amount of weight. Hard to take him seriously in current shape.

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Absolutely ZERO discussion around Shane’s weight. We’ve been there before. This is a topic covered and not welcome to be repeated. End of.

All that matters for golf is flexibility, to be able to turn your shoulders, and enough fitness to comfortably walk six miles.

Yeah, you need the speed but that comes from the turn and obviously increasing your speed at the ball.

Great to hear about two old guys winning the four-ball.

🤦.

Aberg is different gravy though, already more wins on tour than Tommy Fleetwood.

Its a VERY long road back.....he needs do very well in middle east in January or he is behind the 8 ball for rest of season

i just cant see him winning one of the lower events. They will all be birdie fests

And it gets worse next year if the LIV guys are actually coming back

Another thought going through my head is that there are 4 sponsorship exemptions for each event!!!

Which may explain why his social media has gotten so cringeworthy

How is Shane at num 37 in world rankings not getting into the big events,Jaysus he has got himself into a pickle now,will need to play really well to prevent a slide down the rankings,I am of the opinion he cant currently put 4 goods rounds together so has become a fixture in mid table which was ok before the new changes as he will get hot once or twice a year but if hes not in the big ones he wont make up much ground,Is this his last year of exemptions for the 3 majors as well,No need to panic but a potential crossroad awaits,

All entries are based off the Fed Ex cup from last year and the early events from this season which is now known as the fall standings

Top 50 from last season's Fed Ex and top ten from this year's events so far. Current season tournament winners also get in.

It's set up as follows, For Pebble Beach,

Too 50 from last year's FE cup.

Next 10 from fall standings. Next ten means top ten not including those from last year's Cup..

Swing 5 which is top five best, not included in the other groups, from the Sony Open through the Farmers.

Exact same situation for the Genesis except the swing five includes Pebble Beach

Arnold Palmer,

The swing five changes to best from the México Open and The Classic, formerly Honda.

And it goes on like that with somewhere between the previous two and four tournaments as the swing five.

why is he not playing now given I presume he will be resting up for the big events. I suppose its a conundrum for him because if he tries to play his way in he will be bollixed when he gets there but if he doesnt he will be fresh with only DP or Asia to play,

A win in one of those events is a big ask, based on his recent form. And I’m not even sure there would be enough world ranking points at stake to get him back into the top 30.

Fingers crossed he can get off to a good start. 🤞🤞🤞

The LQ course which he played on Thursday is the best represented at the top of the leaderboard.

There are three courses - LQ, NT and SC, here's how players who played those courses are represented at the top of the leaderboard, down to tied 14th - 22 players.

LQ 12

NT 7

SC 3

Now factors which influence the difficulty of one course over the others (e.g. wind) might not be repeated over the next two rounds (the cut is after play on Saturday) but it looks like LQ is by far the easiest and SC the most challenging of the three courses. So Shane will have a challenge to climb up the leaderboard. He's playing NT today (Friday) and the first round scores would suggest that he's going to progress from the easiest to the most difficult over the three days.