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

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  • #5462
    kiers47
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,564 ✭✭✭kiers47


    According to the owgr guy on twitter(@VC606). Looks like he will move up to #70 from #87
    Couple of more finishes like that and hopefully he can get back to Augusta.


  • #5463
    RikkFlair
    Registered Users Posts: 3,089 ✭✭✭RikkFlair


    Do they still get full world ranking points due to only being a 54 hole event?


  • #5464
    abff
    Registered Users Posts: 5,713 ✭✭✭abff


    RikkFlair wrote: »
    Do they still get full world ranking points due to only being a 54 hole event?

    As far as I kn


  • #5465
    kiers47
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,564 ✭✭✭kiers47


    RikkFlair wrote: »
    Do they still get full world ranking points due to only being a 54 hole event?

    Yes. Points remain the same for events cut to 54 holes. If the events are reduced further to 36 holes points are reduced to 75% of previous allocation.


  • #5466
    GreeBo
    Registered Users Posts: 27,007 ✭✭✭✭GreeBo


    Minderbinder wrote: »
    Hopefully this will give him some confidence and he takes the positives out of it. No point kicking himself over the double bogey. He had to take risks in chasing.

    I didnt see any of it, did he go for a risky/50:50 shot or just generally aggressive and it didnt pay off?


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  • #5467
    coylemj
    Registered Users Posts: 25,313 ✭✭✭✭coylemj


    Up to 43 in the R2D rankings so looking good for a trip to Dubai.


  • #5468
    markthespark77
    Registered Users Posts: 368 ✭✭markthespark77


    shane going well, 4 under for the round so far -8 overall, strong finish to get into the last few groups tomorrow


  • #5469
    Rikand
    Registered Users Posts: 20,336 ✭✭✭✭Rikand


    Anyone else see Shane this morning telling Fritelli that it was totally against the spirit of the game for Dylan to be attempting to get relief

    Referee was giving Fritelli a free drop when there's no way he should have been getting one. Shane waded in, rightly, and told Dylan he shouldnt take the drop, but ultimately said it was the call of the ref/player and fritelli took the drop anyways.

    But fairplay to Shane. He was thinking of the players in the field when he spoke up and it would be great if more pros were proactive like that in calling out wrongs from their fellow pros


  • #5470
    Trampas
    Registered Users Posts: 7,379 ✭✭✭Trampas


    What kind of relief was it?

    Why would Shane or any other golfer think about the rest of the field but more about his own chances of winning.

    More ranking points in states this week and last isn’t great for European tour


  • #5471
    Rikand
    Registered Users Posts: 20,336 ✭✭✭✭Rikand


    Trampas wrote: »
    What kind of relief was it?

    Why would Shane or any other golfer think about the rest of the field but more about his own chances of winning.

    More ranking points in states this week and last isn’t great for European tour

    Fritelli was in the cabbage. He couldnt even see the ball. There was a sprinkler head about 2 yards away and fritelli attempted to include the sprinkler head on his swing path by aiming left with his feet and making a pronounced outside the line path that would bring his clubhead near the sprinkler.

    Wayne Riley was going nuts in the commentary about it. Expletives and the like.

    A referee was called

    Shane Lowry stepped in and said "you're bang out of order. Obvoiusly i have no say, but I had to come over here and tell you that you're wrong to be even thinking about taking relief."

    Which is essentially thinking about himself/the field because there's massive rankings points on offer for people trying to get into the race to dubai and fritelli (basically cheating) could have affected someone getting in our out of the main event.

    Fritelli's only options were to hit and hope or take a penalty drop. really they were. But he got the relief from a sympathetic referee and that was that


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  • #5472
    HighLine
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,378 ✭✭✭HighLine


    Was going to post about it in the European Tour Thread but since it's here..... absolutely fair play to Shane for trying to protect the field and call out Frittelli on his cheating. Hopefully the referee will be called up on the ruling and told to grow a pair the next time a player attempts to cheat his way into free relief.


  • #5473
    ionadnapokot
    Registered Users Posts: 4,720 ✭✭✭ionadnapokot


    Harrington would be proud!
    Well done Shane


  • #5474
    ionadnapokot
    Registered Users Posts: 4,720 ✭✭✭ionadnapokot


    HAVE YOU EVER WITNESSED A FELLOW TOUR PLAYER CHEAT DURING A TOURNAMENT ROUND?
    YES: 44%
    NO: 56%
    https://www.golf.com/tour-and-news/2018/09/20/many-pga-tour-players-say-theyve-witnessed-cheating-on-the-course-rather-than-blaming-the-refs-they-should-look-in-the-mirror/


  • #5475
    AGC
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,648 ✭✭✭AGC


    Rikand wrote: »
    Fritelli was in the cabbage. He couldnt even see the ball. There was a sprinkler head about 2 yards away and fritelli attempted to include the sprinkler head on his swing path by aiming left with his feet and making a pronounced outside the line path that would bring his clubhead near the sprinkler.

    Wayne Riley was going nuts in the commentary about it. Expletives and the like.

    A referee was called

    Shane Lowry stepped in and said "you're bang out of order. Obvoiusly i have no say, but I had to come over here and tell you that you're wrong to be even thinking about taking relief."

    Which is essentially thinking about himself/the field because there's massive rankings points on offer for people trying to get into the race to dubai and fritelli (basically cheating) could have affected someone getting in our out of the main event.

    Fritelli's only options were to hit and hope or take a penalty drop. really they were. But he got the relief from a sympathetic referee and that was that

    100%

    Fritelli should be embarrassed the way he was going on but then to actually take the drop when he knows he was breaking the rules was a disgrace.

    It wasn’t using the rules to your advantage like you see so often, it was cheating.


  • #5476
    HighLine
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,378 ✭✭✭HighLine


    https://twitter.com/Brendan_IRL/status/1061221929598812162


  • #5477
    AGC
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,648 ✭✭✭AGC


    Fancied Shane to get to -6 or -7 today now looking like he’ll be -1


  • #5478
    Minderbinder
    Registered Users Posts: 2,030 ✭✭✭Minderbinder


    AGC wrote: »
    100%

    Fritelli should be embarrassed the way he was going on but then to actually take the drop when he knows he was breaking the rules was a disgrace.

    It wasn’t using the rules to your advantage like you see so often, it was cheating.

    Doesn’t surprise me in the slightest it was a South African either.


  • #5479
    razorblunt
    Registered Users Posts: 17,300 ✭✭✭✭razorblunt


    https://twitter.com/tweetingolfer/status/1061229543460126721

    The Fritelli incident.


  • #5480
    AGC
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,648 ✭✭✭AGC


    Interesting draw in round 2 for Shane:D


  • #5481
    Spideog Rua
    Registered Users Posts: 532 ✭✭✭Spideog Rua


    AGC wrote: »
    Interesting draw in round 2 for Shane:D

    Was there any feedback from Fritelli about the incident?


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  • #5482
    AGC
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,648 ✭✭✭AGC


    Spideog Rua wrote: »
    Was there any feedback from Fritelli about the incident?

    Not that I saw/read

    Presume he avoided it at all costs


  • #5483
    Trampas
    Registered Users Posts: 7,379 ✭✭✭Trampas


    Started fast out of the blocks

    Last few years he’s started on west coast instead of desert swing.

    Maybe a sign to Shane that his place is here while he gets his game back as I’m sure he’d get invites in states most weeks


  • #5484
    LuckyGent88
    Registered Users Posts: 14,150 ✭✭✭✭LuckyGent88


    Up to 10 under now thru 17. Some start


  • #5485
    paulos53
    Registered Users Posts: 968 ✭✭✭paulos53


    https://twitter.com/EuropeanTour/status/1085491748783181824


  • #5486
    death1234567
    Registered Users Posts: 3,327 ✭✭✭death1234567


    razorblunt wrote: »
    The Fritelli incident.
    What's the controversy about? I don't see anything there.


  • #5487
    razorblunt
    Registered Users Posts: 17,300 ✭✭✭✭razorblunt


    death1234567 wrote: »
    What's the controversy about? I don't see anything there.

    Jeez, let me dust the cobwebs off the play button on that video!

    If I recall it was due to the ball actually being playable but obviously not ideal but Fritelli pulled a fast one and requested a free drop, which he subsequently was given.


  • #5488
    RoadRunner
    Registered Users Posts: 1,907 ✭✭✭RoadRunner


    paulos53 wrote: »
    https://twitter.com/EuropeanTour/status/1085491748783181824

    WTF (about 1:10 in)
    lowry1.jpg


  • #5489
    Dayor Knight
    Registered Users Posts: 739 ✭✭✭Dayor Knight


    Nice bit of landscaping there alright. Looks like the dumping zone.


  • #5490
    Trampas
    Registered Users Posts: 7,379 ✭✭✭Trampas


    Only hit 4 fairways. Iron play must be spot on and putter hot.

    Will need to improve off the tea as stats like that will catch up eventually but he’ll probably iron that out


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  • #5491
    Benildus
    Closed Accounts Posts: 336 ✭✭Benildus


    Sh1t start today - par, bogey, bogey, par


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