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

SevesThreeIron

coylemj wrote: »

Horizon Sports (on Twitter) forecasting it will put him inside the top 40.

Latest from a rankings guy I follow on Twitter says win puts Lowry #40. Hopefully it's true, great achievement. You'd have to think there's still quite a lot more in him too.

PARlance

SevesThreeIron wrote: »

Latest from a rankings guy I follow on Twitter says win puts Lowry #40. Hopefully it's true, great achievement. You'd have to think there's still quite a lot more in him too.

@VC606 has him at 40 too.
Tiger down to 62!!!

coylemj

Nice payday - ESPN says he got $189,788 for T7 which equates to roughly €168K.

slave1

coylemj wrote: »

Nice payday - ESPN says he got $189,788 for T7 which equates to roughly €168K.

PARlance wrote: »

Poor fella will have to pay most of it in tax anyway

slave1

OWGR
IRL
Shane Lowry
World Number 40

Who hoo!!

Bluefoam

coylemj wrote: »

Nice payday - ESPN says he got $189,788 for T7 which equates to roughly €168K.

That should cover his water charges for the year...

vienne86

slave1 wrote: »

OWGR
IRL
Shane Lowry
World Number 40

Who hoo!!

Now doesn't it look well there on the list this morning.....little Irish flag righ up there. Well done Shane. We had a great time here following you last night! So more again this week at Pebble Beach!

stitcheddepin

very impressed by lowry this week. I didn't expect to see him compete the weekend after day one, but he rallied really well. bodes well for the year. sniff of a major at the open!!

newport2

SevesThreeIron wrote: »

Latest from a rankings guy I follow on Twitter says win puts Lowry #40. Hopefully it's true, great achievement. You'd have to think there's still quite a lot more in him too.

The encouraging thing is that he's steadily improving at a consistent pace, has been for a couple of years now. No reason to believe he won't continue. Great to have someone to cheer for at the Masters!

slave1

Wouldn't a RC next year be perfect

slave1

vienne86

newport2 wrote: »

The encouraging thing is that he's steadily improving at a consistent pace, has been for a couple of years now. No reason to believe he won't continue. Great to have someone to cheer for at the Masters!

Yes, Sky referred to that and put up his ranking for the last four years last night. We can be very proud of this guy.

Maths1

Shane is paired with Harrington for 1st round ,playing at 8 a.m. on the Peble beach course

PARlance

Maths1 wrote: »

Shane is paired with Harrington for 1st round ,playing at 8 a.m. on the Peble beach course

The Golf forum will explode.

gman127

PARlance wrote: »

The Golf forum will explode.

Merge Lowry and Harrington threads for thursday and friday please!

Then back to lowry thread (because I fear he will be alone in the cut making...)

Speak Now

gman127 wrote: »

Merge Lowry and Harrington threads for thursday and friday please!

Then back to lowry thread (because I fear he will be alone in the cut making...)

Don't forget Saturday

pistol_75

Is Harrington playing as an amateur?

vienne86

Maths1 wrote: »

Shane is paired with Harrington for 1st round ,playing at 8 a.m. on the Peble beach course

This should be fun! Hope they get some TV time.

HighLine

gman127 wrote: »

Merge Lowry and Harrington threads for thursday and friday please!

Then back to lowry thread (because I fear he will be alone in the cut making...)

Or just stick to the "Epic (maybe a Mod can remove that) PGA Tour Thread"

charlieIRL

HighLine wrote: »

Or just stick to the "Epic (maybe a Mod can remove that) PGA Tour Thread"

Not very observant lately are you?!!:P:)

HighLine

charlieIRL wrote: »

Not very observant lately are you?!!:P:)

:D On the ball lads, fair play!

REBELSAFC

Maths1 wrote: »

Shane is paired with Harrington for 1st round ,playing at 8 a.m. on the Peble beach course

Leaderboard looking good at the moment ....Wouldn't it be great if this was the story Sunday night

vienne86

Nice round of 69 for Shane. He and Desmond are third in the pro-am. Nice day's work.

Steven81

3 under through 13 brings him to 6 under, 3 consecutive birdies

vienne86

Slow start from Shane, but going nicely now. -3, with just one bogey. Very impressive.

Panrich

-7 at the finish. Great start to the year for Shane.

vienne86

Panrich wrote: »

-7 at the finish. Great start to the year for Shane.

Tied 27th - he seems to like playing the PGA tour. Great performance.

mafc

vienne86 wrote: »

Tied 27th - he seems to like playing the PGA tour. Great performance.

Great stuff from Shane

vienne86

mafc wrote: »

Great stuff from Shane

It's great too when you consider what a slow start he had last season. I'm thinking America suits him.

maudgone

Good start for Shane, up to 17th on -9 after 8 holes.

maudgone

Flying it. -11 after 15.

First Up

Great stuff. No sight of him but not a lot of golf been shown as they milk the "celebreties" as much as possible. Tomorrow should be better.

slave1

Most impressive

vienne86

Another great round from Shane - brilliant!

maudgone

First Up wrote: »

Great stuff. No sight of him but not a lot of golf been shown as they milk the "celebreties" as much as possible. Tomorrow should be better.

He's playing Spyglass. All tv coverage is from Pebble Beach.

HighLine

And birdies the last to finish -12. Hoping for a good Sunday drive up the leaderboard!

First Up

maudgone wrote: »

He's playing Spyglass. All tv coverage is from Pebble Beach.

Its an awful tournament to watch, at least until the Sunday. Even if he was at Pebble today he couldn't compete with Bill Murray or whoever elsr CBS is plugging.

vienne86

HighLine wrote: »

And birdies the last to finish -12. Hoping for a good Sunday drive up the leaderboard!

He has progressed every day. Now tied 9th. Brilliant to have someone to shout for.

bigtimecharlie

Can't wait for tomorrow night. Can in the fridge already.

vienne86

And now surely we will get to see him play tomorrow.....mind you, if he slips below the TV radaar, I don't care if he plays well. At least we'll have the shot tracker.

mr.jingle

This guy has become my favourite player in recent times, really put that stigma of him being a one hit wonder well back down the naysayers throats. Constantly improving week on week and a top 5 is well withing reach tomorrow. Nice to have an Irish player with a likeability factor for a change! C'mon Shane

24yearslater

<Mod edit>

No betting posts please

cormacjones

mr.jingle wrote: »

This guy has become my favourite player in recent times, really put that stigma of him being a one hit wonder well back down the naysayers throats. Constantly improving week on week and a top 5 is well withing reach tomorrow. Nice to have an Irish player with a likeability factor for a change! C'mon Shane

That's harsh. I'm not sure what's unlikable about Harrington, McDowell and McIlroy.

mr.jingle

cormacjones wrote: »

That's harsh. I'm not sure what's unlikable about Harrington, McDowell and McIlroy.

Not knocking any of their achievements, wonderful golfers all of them and maybe its just a personal opinion because I never took to the other 3

scrubber72

Out with Jordan speith today. Hopefully Some Coverage.

stitcheddepin

The lad is a top class golfer. Hope he goes well 2nite. I won't be watching, last nites coverage nearly ended with a broken tv it was so bad. Similar last week, the us golf tv is atrocious

First Up

stitcheddepin wrote: »

The lad is a top class golfer. Hope he goes well 2nite. I won't be watching, last nites coverage nearly ended with a broken tv it was so bad. Similar last week, the us golf tv is atrocious

Pebble Beach marks a new low in tv coverage every year. Only thing is the Sunday is usually a bit better, with most of the soap stars, comedians and captains of industry off the scene.

But last night was excruciatingly awful.

vienne86

First Up wrote: »

Pebble Beach marks a new low in tv coverage every year. Only thing is the Sunday is usually a bit better, with most of the soap stars, comedians and captains of industry off the scene.

But last night was excruciatingly awful.

I actually turned off last night, it was so awful. Last day is usually respectable, so really looking forward to tonight.

First Up

vienne86 wrote: »

I actually turned off last night, it was so awful. Last day is usually respectable, so really looking forward to tonight.

Playing witb Speith should help but Lowry will need to get into contention if we are to see much of him. Furyk will get the lion's share but coverage starts at 6 so if he starts well...

It will be interesting to see how he shapes up against Speith who is one of the real rising stars.

slave1

Unless he's contending I doubt we'll see anything, brutal coverage from CBS