He has only 1 win on the PGA tour since 2019 and that was with Rory in his ear.
Yeah, you already said that he’s moving on. He was hardly going to tell the Irish Examiner that he was going to dwell on the last 2 round of The Open for the next 6 months, was he?!
No it isn’t. No such tournament in golf. But you knew that.
He's been selected as a flag bearer for the Olympics….well deserved although I was certain that it might be Rory as he would span both communities on the island. I'm sure Shane will be proud as punch
Wouldn't know what flag Rory would walk out with..
I assume you’re just trying to stir it with Rory carrying the flag
Not at all…I think Shane is the right choice and I doubt Rory would have been up for it anyway but if they could have incorporated an Ulster flag into it; it may have been a possibility. If he wins gold he'll have to stand for the national anthem and the tricolour in any case
Was Rory even on the boat? Wouldn’t be surprised if he’s in Dubai or back home in Florida or up the north
a bit of a bee in your bonnet
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Good hopefully he’ll pick up a medal as well
Only a small portion of the total team were on the boat
It's completely undeserved.Remember Shane skipped the Olympics in 2016 which shows you how important they really are to him.
The flag bearers should be from people who the sport is the absolute pinnacle not golf where it's just a bit of a novelty event.
Loads more deserving people than him on the team who could have been flag bearers.
I'm not a big fan of having golf in the Olympics. To me an Olympic gold medal should be the highest possible achievement in any athlete's career. In golf it might not be even in the top 10 tournaments a professional golfer would have an ambition to win.
Ah but that doesn’t fit with the narrative tying to be spun.
He's one of our most high profile sports people, and always flys the flag proudly on our behalf on the international stage, with a smile on his face for the most part. 2 excellent flag bearers chosen by the Team Ireland.
This is the Olympics though, they should be prioritizing genuine Olympic athletes for whim the Olympics is the pinnacle.
Also he wasn't so proud to fly the flag in 2016.
It's nonsense it being an Olympic event.
More deserving sports where it would be a big deal would be better placed to be in the Olympics, some sports have lost out on medal events in order to squeeze in some of the new sports like golf.
He is a genuine Olympic athlete, what are you on about.
Golf , soccer , tennis (and a few others) may be in the Olympics but they're miles off the pinnacle for those sports and so aren't really a true Olympic event (or what a lot of people would consider a true Olympic event) where it's the be all and end all.
For most athletes in the Olympics this is their life's ambition to go to the Olympics and compete and win a medal hopefully, this is not the case for golf.
Yeah that's a different argument and one I have no interest in debating. Shane is on Team Ireland and perfectly entitled to be.
Good man Shane Lowry, Cmon Ireland.
I love Shane, but Jack Daw is right and I wish some of these super wealthy professional sports stars like LeBron James and Shane would have the consideration to grab as little of the lime light as possible in the Olympics.
They are no more true Olympians than I am, and they do not represent what the Olympics were intended to be. People have no shame these days. If I was Shane I'd honestly be embarrassed to meet someone like Adeleke in the Olympic village as if he is some sort of olympic role model. Deary me.
Deary me , indeed. Somebody had to picked ..one man one woman athlete as with most countries if not all. If not him it would have been another saga about someone else.
Well done Shane , and am sure he will do Ireland proud !
The flag bearing is over now .
He does Ireland proud playing a professional sport to an extremely high level. He is not an Olympian though.
I thought it was a maximum 2 players from every country for the Olympics men’s golf. It looks like there’s 3 USA players in it? Scheffler Schaufelle and Morikawa
The qualification rules state that the top 15 players on the OWGR are eligible for the Olympic Games, up to a maximum of four golfers from a single country. There are actually four players from the USA in the 2024 Olympics - Wyndham Clark is also playing. Without the four player limit, there would be ten golfers in total from the USA as Cantlay, DeChambeau, Theegala, Henley, Hartman and Homa were all in the top 15 at the cut off point
After the top 15, the Olympic Golf Rankings (OGR) consist of up to the top two eligible players per country, as long as that country does not already have at least two players in the top 15.
The overall field is restricted to the top 60 based on the above criteria.
He's represented Ireland in the olympics in 2021 and this year. He is indeed an olympian. It is a fact and isn't subjective in any way.
If I was Shane I'd honestly be embarrassed to meet someone like Adeleke in the Olympic village as if he is some sort of olympic role model.
lol
Seriously. He qualified like everyone else. He's entitled to go. There's no reason to be embarrassed. Like zero reason.
Not a great day for Shane. 8 off the lead. A real open stance on putting for the little I saw
A nothing round today until an eagle on the last from the fairway bunker.
will be hoping for low round tomorrow on foot of that bit of good luck,Shane is an emotional player and could feed off this big break.Not goin to win but top 10 will do,
