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

I don't understand golf these days - Clark put the club behind ball there - pushed down - ball moved a bit - this improves lie - you can't do that

Some highs and lows here, poor 3 putt couple holes back and then he holes an unbelievable one on 17th.

Tied lead going into tomorrow would be a good result for today given where he was after the front none

Great stuff Shane - and to give out to him (as a fan) - why him getting cranky at times makes no sense . Just hanging in here at times is enough.

They tell you that its ok as long as the ball doesn't move a revolution but clearing a space behind it by pushing down your wedge many times is improving your lie imo.

Great round Shane, Offaly's finest vs the world's finest, going to be a box office Sunday!

fair play Shane,hate to see you out front from R1 but we are where we are,playing great and go shot for shot with scheffler tomorrow and you wont be far away.

Shane has battled adversity the last two days and beat it. I love that he's out with Scheffler because he has that fight in him to best the best.

It's still wide open though.

This is a seriously tough test of golf. Great play from Shane to be in contention. Fingers crossed for tomorrow.

Will be fascinating to see Shane's game plan . Playing it safe might seem a sensible way to go for the first 5 or 6 holes but risks falling into arrears and as Rory rightly said this is not a course where you need to be chasing -one slight mishit or missed placement and the course will just gobble you up. He is capable of getting a bunch of birdies . If he can ship no more than ,say, two bogies and avoids a double,he can post a possible winning or tying score. I reckon about 4 under will win it and 3 under will be on the premises. Wonder what score would he take if offered ?

If he plays like he did today then he is in with a great shout. If he throws the head after a mistake then he won't be. I hope his caddy keeps him cool and focused because he certainly has the game to win this competition.

I like Shane ..big fan...but I seen it at Ryder Cup too...his mood swings are not really ideal for performance and go against all.the theory.

But I don't like robot pros...

I wonder has he ever gone deep on mental side of game ...

But maybe you just got to take ups and downs and accept..it is who he is...

Just saw the video of it, bloody hell, that was sketchy, and that's being generous. I wouldn't be able to sleep at night if I did that and didn't call it tbh.

Interesting explanation about the naked eye standard, I didn't know that was still in the "new" rules.

Anyway fingers crossed Shane can make a good battle of it tonight and take down Scheffler. Should be good viewing given the way they both putt, it might be like watching two blind men pin the tail on the donkey 😁 (I'm saying it in jest !)

There's fair bit of talk that Bay Hill is not a particularly good course, it's not so clear on TV to see why, relative to most other PGA Tour courses at least.

As someone who has played it, what's the reason for that opinion in your view?

The NLU guys ridicule it and I'm wondering why, nothing obvious from watching on TV anyway, I'd have a lot of Tour courses as worse viewing for sure