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

abff

basillarkin wrote: »

What world ranking now

According to the OWGR website, he will move up to number 17th.

JP Liz V1

Well Done Shane

rickis tache

How ya heavyballs...... What no response?



Congrats Shane delighted.

GolfNut33

He'll be back in some pro shop regripping clubs soon enough....lol

Remind me

5 year exemption to all the majors, the open until he’s 60, 5 years on PGA tour and 10 on European tour.

Hopefully, hopefully, hopefully he pushes on and stays up in the OWGR and secures a spot next year to the Ryder Cup.

eagle eye

He is well up.in the Fed ex Cup after that win. A week off and then back at it Stateside, you gotta keep playing when you are playing like he did this weekend.

Sharp MZ700

Remind me wrote: »

5 year exemption to all the majors, the open until he’s 60, 5 years on PGA tour and 10 on European tour.

Hopefully, hopefully, hopefully he pushes on and stays up in the OWGR and secures a spot next year to the Ryder Cup.

Cheers for that, was wondering about the PGA.

LuckyGent88

Remind me wrote: »

5 year exemption to all the majors, the open until he’s 60, 5 years on PGA tour and 10 on European tour.

Hopefully, hopefully, hopefully he pushes on and stays up in the OWGR and secures a spot next year to the Ryder Cup.

Think that has made my mind up to go to Wisconsin now. Last year in Paris was ridiculous so want to experience an away Ryder cup now.

Zaph

Remind me wrote: »

5 year exemption to all the majors, the open until he’s 60, 5 years on PGA tour and 10 on European tour.

Hopefully, hopefully, hopefully he pushes on and stays up in the OWGR and secures a spot next year to the Ryder Cup.

It's only a 5 year exemption on the European Tour now. They previously dropped it to 7 years and it's down to 5 from this year.

ronnie3585

Before he walked off 18, to greet his family and friends, Shane stopped to shake the hand of the lad who raked his bunkers all day.

Touch of class.

Yeah, I've no interest in golf really, but any time I've seen him interviewed or anything, and today after winning it, he comes across as a gentleman..

kmart6

ronnie3585 wrote: »

Before he walked off 18, to greet his family and friends, Shane stopped to shake the hand of the lad who raked his bunkers all day.

Touch of class.

Every player did that in every group, see it at every tournament, lets not get carried away and make it out that Shane is somewhat different for that.

Mysterypunter

Good on him, did it easily too, never in doubt

washman3

ronnie3585 wrote: »

Before he walked off 18, to greet his family and friends, Shane stopped to shake the hand of the lad who raked his bunkers all day.

Touch of class.

Ya, spotted that too. Top class gentleman.
Sat near him at a Gaelic Football match in Limerick just 2 weeks ago and he had a constant smile on his face and a salute for everyone.:)
Nice guys don't always finish last.!!
Well done Shane. A proud day to be Irish.

ronnie3585

kmart6 wrote: »

Every player did that in every group, see it at every tournament, lets not get carried away and make it out that Shane is somewhat different for that.

I know that.

Many other golfers who had just won the Open for the first time wouldn’t.

washman3

kmart6 wrote: »

Every player did that in every group, see it at every tournament, lets not get carried away and make it out that Shane is somewhat different for that.

Is anybody saying otherwise..??

Remind me

kmart6 wrote: »

Every player did that in every group, see it at every tournament, lets not get carried away and make it out that Shane is somewhat different for that.

The open is the only tournament that have rakers with them.

Completely normal for the scorers to be acknowledged so you’re right, nothing new.

kmart6

ronnie3585 wrote: »

Many other golfers who had just won the Open for the first time wouldn’t.

Like?

washman3 wrote: »

Is anybody saying otherwise..??

By calling it out as something different when it is standard practice its implying he's different and others wouldn't.

TheCitizen

Remind me wrote: »

5 year exemption to all the majors, the open until he’s 60, 5 years on PGA tour and 10 on European tour.

Hopefully, hopefully, hopefully he pushes on and stays up in the OWGR and secures a spot next year to the Ryder Cup.

He’d be a good wild card pick even if he doesn’t make the team.

Force Carrier

yaboya1

slave1 wrote: »

Super to see Padraig waiting to congratulate him

Delighted to see Lowry win. Always thought he had the talent to be a major winner.
Harrington missed the cut, but still hung around for the weekend to greet him.
Two great ambassadors for Ireland.

stockdam

yaboya1 wrote: »

Delighted to see Lowry win. Always thought he had the talent to be a major winner.
Harrington missed the cut, but still hung around for the weekend to greet him.
Two great ambassadors for Ireland.

McDowell also greeted him on the 18th.

Macdarack

Today was the first time I watched a full round of golf , good stuff Shane, you made Ireland proud.

yaboya1

stockdam wrote: »

McDowell also greeted him on the 18th.

I know that and not knocking him. But he played today so it wasn't a huge effort to hang around.
Bit of class from Harrington to show up having missed the cut imo.
That's all I'm saying.

Alf Veedersane

Ah lads...that thread title give a me some goosebumps

Keano

Few posts deleted. This is a great day for Irish golf so let’s keep it that way

Golfhead65

yaboya1 wrote: »

Delighted to see Lowry win. Always thought he had the talent to be a major winner.
Harrington missed the cut, but still hung around for the weekend to greet him.
Two great ambassadors for Ireland.

Yeah brilliant to see Harrington there to congratulate Lowry along with McDowell

slave1

Huge 5 year PGA exemption, 10 year European Tour exemption, in all the Majors for the next 5 years,up to 18 in Fed Ex cup.....it goes on and on

FixdePitchmark

Where is the party ? Imagine Dublin tonight then esker hills Monday.

BENDYBINN

heavyballs wrote: »

more chance of Ronan Rafferty coming back and winning a major imo,i said it at the time here that he was too hasty to turn pro and i beleive this has been proved.It took him 3 or 4 months before he started to do any proper physical training and it was stated in the media(could well be bs)that he was doing very little practice compared to the other pro's.
He'll be running a pro shop in 5 years imo

Got that one wrong!

Motivator

Unbelievable performance from Lowry. Absolutely delighted for him. Up until the win in Abu Dhabi his game and his career looked like it was stagnating. Today aside, turned a corner in 2019 and I’d imagine it’s to do with him playing more regularly. Without looking at his stats, would it be fair to say he has played more this year than he has over the last three or four years?

My worry is that he’ll see this as the pinnacle and his form will tail off, something like what happened Garcia in 2017 after the Masters? It would be great to see him go up a notch and bring a level of consistency that we haven’t seen since the days when Harrington was top 3 in the world and was contending on the PGA tour on a constant basis.

It was such a thrill to see an Irish player do that today. Hopefully it will inspire Paul Dunne, a great pal of Lowry’s, who hasn’t had much luck since his win in the UK.

Harry Palmr

heavyballs is no longer on boards so it's a pointless "ya boo"

I only see golf on the odd ocassion since Sky bought it all but watched the BBC highlights and was most impressed by Lowry, such brilliant short game soft hands. Good touch for a big man as they say.

(as an aside the Roadie will win a big one as well I'd say)

giveitholly

FixdePitchmark wrote: »

Where is the party ? Imagine Dublin tonight then esker hills Monday.

Why Dublin tonight?

GreeBo

slave1 wrote: »

Huge 5 year PGA exemption, 10 year European Tour exemption, in all the Majors for the next 5 years,up to 18 in Fed Ex cup.....it goes on and on

He shouldn't need exemptions from anything from now on...needs to stay in top 30 at worst just by playing well

Rikand

17th in the world.

Savage

Remind me

Zaph wrote: »

It's only a 5 year exemption on the European Tour now. They previously dropped it to 7 years and it's down to 5 from this year.

Still 10 year exemption

FixdePitchmark

giveitholly wrote: »

FixdePitchmark wrote: »

Where is the party ? Imagine Dublin tonight then esker hills Monday.

Why Dublin tonight?

see paddy mention it on Twitter. but not sure.

logistically they would have planed to come home Sunday id imagine ?

and for all the ideas with drink. Is portrush a town you go around drinking from a trophy with tricolours swinging.

not sure.

riddles

What age is the caddy?

eagle eye

riddles wrote:

What age is the caddy?

46

Trampas

Has he not got obligations with the r & a this morning?

I assume he’ll be flying off to states today or worse case tomorrow

murphyebass

eagle eye wrote: »

46

Really?! I would have though late 50’s!

FixdePitchmark

Shanes in studio BBC interview was excellent.

Not sure if online ?

Alf Veedersane

murphyebass wrote: »

Really?! I would have though late 50’s!

Just had a baby as well, which is why he wasn't on the bag at the Irish Open

slave1

If you haven't read it, great article...

https://www.pgatour.com/news/2019/07/21/celebrating-shane-lowry-hometown-club-esker-hills-cheer-for-open-champion-royal-portrush-golf-club.html

Seve OB

slave1 wrote: »

If you haven't read it, great article...

https://www.pgatour.com/news/2019/07/21/celebrating-shane-lowry-hometown-club-esker-hills-cheer-for-open-champion-royal-portrush-golf-club.html

has that club got no dress code

FixdePitchmark

great footage.

isn't "ole ole " a bit mindless at this stage.

lol

Odyssey 2005

That fookin clown Ross is on the sor show. He was there...surprise surprise. Couldn't get onto the 18th,;) so went back and watched the telly. His dept will fund in full any celebration that SL wants.

Glebee

I really hope Shane has decent people behind him and a close circle of friends. Every fcukwit is going to want a piece of him now.

murpho999

Odyssey 2005 wrote: »

That fookin clown Ross is on the sor show. He was there...surprise surprise. Couldn't get onto the 18th,;) so went back and watched the telly. His dept will fund in full any celebration that SL wants.

In all fairness he is the Minister of Sport.

Imagine the criticism if he had not been there.

Odyssey 2005

murpho999 wrote: »

In all fairness he is the Minister of Sport.

Imagine the criticism if he had not been there.

He obviously wasnt there in an official capacity, he was there to be seen there