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

abff · 07-12-2014 01:38PM

Very up and down tournament for Shane. He's had an eagle, 16 birdies, 10 bogeys and 3 double bogeys. Obviously still hitting some great shots, but also making lots of errors. He's had a busy few weeks and I expect he's looking forward to a break over Christmas.

Does anyone know when he's next scheduled to play?

Mushy · 07-12-2014 01:49PM

Eagle on 14 there.

Mushy · 07-12-2014 02:06PM

And then bogey on 15

Rikand · 07-12-2014 02:49PM

Birdies the last to be 11th on his own.

Will extend his ranking points lead over Todd

coylemj · 07-12-2014 03:00PM

Rikand wrote: »

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Will extend his ranking points lead over Todd

But worryingly there are four players above him on the leaderboard who could threaten his position in the OWGR....

The leaderboard looks like this at 2 p.m. (OWGR in brackets) ...

4 Siem (61)
7 Oosthuizen (55)
T8 Blixt (59)
T8 Clark (61)

First Up · 07-12-2014 03:30PM

coylemj wrote: »

But worryingly there are four players above him on the leaderboard who could threaten his position in the OWGR....

The leaderboard looks like this at 2 p.m. (OWGR in brackets) ...

4 Siem (61)
7 Oosthuizen (55)
T8 Blixt (59)
T8 Clark (61)

Haven't calculated the prize money but I can't see any (or enough) of then winning enough more than he does to make up that sort of ground.

abff · 07-12-2014 05:12PM

coylemj wrote: »

But worryingly there are four players above him on the leaderboard who could threaten his position in the OWGR....

The leaderboard looks like this at 2 p.m. (OWGR in brackets) ...

4 Siem (61)
7 Oosthuizen (55)
T8 Blixt (59)
T8 Clark (61)

I've done a quick update and none of the above players will move ahead of Shane. By my reckoning, he will move up to 44th, just behind Lee Westwood and just ahead of Mikko Ilonen.

charlieIRL · 07-12-2014 08:47PM

abff wrote: »

I've done a quick update and none of the above players will move ahead of Shane. By my reckoning, he will move up to 44th, just behind Lee Westwood and just ahead of Mikko Ilonen.

Has Westwood dropped to 43rd? Didn't think he was that low.

abff · 07-12-2014 09:24PM

charlieIRL wrote: »

Has Westwood dropped to 43rd? Didn't think he was that low.

Lee is currently 42nd, but Jaidee will move ahead of him on Monday. Shane will move ahead of Lee in the year end rankings as he will drop fewer points over the next three weeks.

vienne86 · 07-12-2014 11:08PM

Of course we wanted Shane to do better today, but it has been a great year form him.

Speak Now · 07-12-2014 11:25PM

$154K for his weeks work :cool:

95,494 points to kick start his 2015 race to Dubai season

vienne86 · 07-12-2014 11:28PM

Jerry Seinfeld wrote: »

$154K for his weeks work :cool:

95,494 points to kick start his 2015 race to Dubai season

And there was I talking about this year.....great start to next season indeed!

slave1 · 08-12-2014 10:16AM

So that's just under €1.9m in on-course earnings, + sponsorship etc.
Nice 2014.

vienne86 · 08-12-2014 10:22AM

Lovely to see Shane at #44 now in the OWGR. What a year!

08-12-2014 02:37PM

so he'll get into all the majors now for 2015 then by virtue of the fact that he'll be in the top 50 at the end of this calendar year?

Speak Now · 08-12-2014 02:39PM

glasso wrote: »

so he'll get into all the majors now for 2015 then by virtue of the fact that he'll be in the top 50 at the end of this calendar year?

No just the Masters, he's already qualified for The Open anyway.
U.S Open will be top 60 nearer the time and top 100 for USPGA.

Panrich · 08-12-2014 05:26PM

Rankings can be very volatile. Five of last years top 50 are now outside of the top 100. Watney (30-122), Manassero (43-143), Lynn (45-207), P Hansen (48-223) and Grace (50-117). It shows that getting into WGC events and the majors don't guarantee you success necessarily. Shane hopefully will push on from here but he needs to keep focused or it can easily slip away as the above examples show.

coylemj · 23-12-2014 01:32AM

Officially on the 2015 Masters invitation list, Lowry tweeted the link below at 10:30 p.m. today.

He's close to the bottom of the left column......

http://www.masters.com/en_US/players/invitees_2015.html

FixdePitchmark · 23-12-2014 01:47AM

coylemj wrote: »

Officially on the 2015 Masters invitation list, Lowry tweeted the link below at 10:30 p.m. today.

He's close to the bottom of the left column......

http://www.masters.com/en_US/players/invitees_2015.html

Class . Pure class.
Right next to Tiger Woods.

vienne86 · 24-12-2014 04:55PM

coylemj wrote: »

Officially on the 2015 Masters invitation list, Lowry tweeted the link below at 10:30 p.m. today.

He's close to the bottom of the left column......

http://www.masters.com/en_US/players/invitees_2015.html

Love it! Good man, Shane - what a season. Now to kick on!

DEFTLEFTHAND · 25-12-2014 05:48AM

A great year ahead of him when you think of his earning potential, hopefully he drops a bit of weight and gets himself in order to make a proper go of it. I wish him the best.

vienne86 · 25-12-2014 11:03AM

DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »

A great year ahead of him when you think of his earning potential, hopefully he drops a bit of weight and gets himself in order to make a proper go of it. I wish him the best.

He can do what he likes with his weight as far as I am concerned. Just keep playing good golf and keep porgressing up the rankings. it has been great having him to watch this season.

Keano · 25-12-2014 11:28AM

We will not be going there, so drop it

First Up · 25-12-2014 12:11PM

Keano wrote: »

We will not be going there, so drop it

We can discuss Padraig's eyesight, Rory's weights programme, Tiger's knees.....
But not........

Keano · 25-12-2014 12:35PM

No

abff · 25-12-2014 01:35PM

In fairness to the mods, they only step in when certain issues take topics way off thread and start to dominate the discussion. There was way too much back and forth about Shane's weight a few months back and they imposed an embargo. Likewise when the country certain players were declaring for started to take over other threads.

It prevents a lot of needless bickering.

Bluefoam · 25-12-2014 01:55PM

Shane has given us some great entertainment this year... Been a pleasure to follow him. Looking forward to more of the same next year.

vienne86 · 26-12-2014 10:39AM

Bluefoam wrote: »

Shane has given us some great entertainment this year... Been a pleasure to follow him. Looking forward to more of the same next year.

As he gets better, he gets more TV coverage, so hopefully that will continue. It is great to have an Irish golfer to watch. Hope he has another great season.

slave1 · 29-12-2014 10:54AM

Nice interview...

http://www.rte.ie/sport/golf/european-tour/2014/1228/669348-video-lowry-reflects-on-2014/

vienne86 · 30-12-2014 06:25PM

Very nice interview, Hope he pushes on and also gets that win in 2015.

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

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