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

How do you figure that?

He has a Major and what, 6 or 7 more professional wins, 8 second places and 9 or 10 third places.

Thats waaaaaaaaayyyyy above the average for a professional golfer.

Comparing him to the creme de la creme is unfair.

Accepted his meltdowns after a bad shot are a bit extreme.Needs to put in the work on his mental game imo.

And John Daly won a major drinking coke and smoking fags... exception doesn't make the rule.

Focusing on outliers to excuse his poor conditioning for a professional athlete is faulty logic.

It looks to me that he has the physical ability and talent but is badly in need of a good sports psychologist like a Bob Rotella so he can go out Sunday really believing he can win. Practically all top sports people have one now.

His 3rd shot on 4, after hitting the fairway bunker lip, was pure class to get it to the front of that green. If he had two putted it for bogey I think he plays a different round afterward with some good momentum from the save but anyway.

He played with fire trying to make a similar recovery on 11, made another double instead and spiraled from there.

don’t know if it’s been said here yet but he’s pairing up with Koepka for the Zurich next week

Yes. Rory isn't playing this year.

He has set himself a high bar for pairings, only picking multiple-major champions (Harrington, McIlroy, and now Koepka).

Seems to be a pretty simple genesis for the pairing.

"...on the list of popular Tour-pro hangs in the neighborhood is Michael Jordan’s swank club, Grove XXIII, which is where Lowry and Koepka played a round together a few months back — and where Lowry popped the question.

“I said to him, ‘I might need a partner for New Orleans’” Lowry said. “He goes, ‘Well, I’m going to have to play there.’ That was it.”

It's fair luck for Lowry, he likely has to play the event due to sponsorship so if Koepka wasn't available I wonder who he would have ended up with. Let's hope they go well together.

-4 through 5 with his own ball. He hasn't needed any help from Koepka yet.

Is Koepka that bad? Anyone who can't stand deChambeau can't be all bad….

Looks like a missed cut for Lowry and Koepka. They finished on -9 which is the current cutline but it will almost certainly go out to -10 or -11

That was really poor from them. The depth of field is stunningly bad, missing the cut basically shows that neither of them really gave a shite.