Shane Lowry has excessive hopes of including to his main tally and securing a Ryder Cup return in 2025, regardless of having “pure hatred” for one of many programs on this yr’s roster.
Lowry is again contained in the world’s prime 20 after a powerful begin to the season and has 4 prime 10s in majors since his breakthrough success at The Open in 2019, the place he produced a dominant six-shot win over Tommy Fleetwood at Royal Portrush.
The ultimate males’s main of the yr returns to the identical Northern Eire course this July, reside on Sky Sports activities, whereas the US Open is again at Oakmont for the primary time since Lowry squandered a four-shot lead through the remaining spherical of the 2016 contest
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Highlights from Lowry’s 4 rounds at The Open in 2019, the place he stormed to a maiden main title
Quail Hole Membership hosts the PGA Championship, the venue the place Rory McIlroy has received the Wells Fargo Championship 4 instances and can be one of many favourites, with it additionally being the venue Lowry is least assured about difficult for main glory.
“Three out of four major venues this year I love,” Lowry instructed the Sky Sports activities Golf podcast. “I do not actually have a love-hate for Quail Hole, it is only a pure hatred for it! I’ve by no means had consequence there.
“Going again to Oakmont, it is a course that I felt like I ought to have received the US Open that yr. However I realized loads from that and I felt like I used that at Portrush. Would I give Portrush for that? No, completely not, however I really feel like possibly I ought to have two [wins].
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“I haven’t been back there [Oakmont] since 2016 and I feel like my game’s changed a lot for the better since then. That’ll certainly be a tournament that, if I go there with a little bit of confidence, feeling my game’s okay, you never know what could happen that week.”
Lowry’s consistency has seen him put up top-25 finishes in three majors throughout every of the final 4 seasons, with the Irishman ending tied-sixth on the 2024 PGA Championship – having equalled the bottom spherical in main historical past on day three – earlier than claiming a share of sixth at The Open.
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Watch each birdie from Lowry’s record-equalling males’s main spherical as he shot a nine-under-par 62 at Valhalla
“I certainly don’t go to make up the numbers!” Lowry added. “If you ask me now at this stage of my career, the reason I put that work in is, wth all due respect to the other events on the PGA Tour and DP World Tour, it’s all a build-up to the majors and the Ryder Cup.
“I’ve these 5 dates circled in my calendar they usually’re the weeks that I need to carry out my greatest. I simply love the strain of them, I like how tough they’re, and I like every little thing about them. I really feel like loads of my good performances over the past variety of years have been in majors.
“I at all times say my two favorite weeks of the yr aren’t even tournaments, they’re the week earlier than The Masters and the week earlier than The Open, as a result of I like the build-up and preparing for these tournaments.
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“I’m very fortunate that I have one, that I’ve got a Claret Jug in my house and I’d love to win one more [major]. If I was to win one more, I’m sure I’m going to be greedy and want one more after that as well!”
Hearken to the complete Shane Lowry interview on the most recent version of the Sky Sports activities Golf podcast, hosted each week by Jamie Weir. Subscribe now on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or Spreaker, whereas vodcast editions will be discovered on the Sky Sports activities Golf YouTube channel.
Lowry seems to be to kickstart a ‘good yr’
Lowry heads into the Florida Swing having impressed on the AT&T Pebble Seashore Professional-Am final month, the place he completed two strokes behind good pal Rory McIlroy within the PGA Tour Signature Occasion after a final-round tussle between the pair.
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Highlights from the ultimate spherical of the AT&T Pebble Seashore Professional-Am, the place Rory McIlroy impressed to say a two-shot victory in his first PGA Tour look of the yr
“I don’t say it in a negative way about my own game, but I think when someone like Rory rocks up with his ‘A’ game, he’s impossible to beat,” Lowry admitted about his runner-up end. “I do think he was very close that day. He played unbelievable golf.
“He had the ball on a string off the tee and simply did every little thing proper. He holds them nice putts on the proper time. I feel, if something, I used to be good for him that remaining spherical, possibly enjoying collectively. I form of felt at instances that it did not really feel like we have been going toe-to-toe for an enormous PGA Tour occasion on a historic venue.
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Lowry made a hole-in-one on the AT&T Pebble Seashore Professional-Am after Rory McIlroy made one earlier within the day
“My one goal was to try and not to hand him the tournament and make him win the tournament. I feel like I kind of did that. It was good to see him getting a win. I was disappointed for myself, but I’m still happy with my week. It’s hopefully going to kickstart a pretty good year for me.”
McIlroy’s victory at Pebble Seashore was one in all 4 European winners in a five-week stretch on the PGA Tour, with Lowry – trying to discover his personal success over the approaching months and cement his place in Europe’s Ryder Cup squad this September.
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Sky Sports activities reporter Jamie Weir heads to New York to seek out out what awaits Crew Europe on the 2025 Ryder Cup
“I obviously want to be a part of it,” Lowry mentioned concerning the prospect of enjoying at Bethpage Black, reside on Sky Sports activities. “I don’t just want to be in the team – I want to be a part of a winning team and I want to be able to help the team.
“I feel it should be one of many nice Ryder Cups of all time and I simply hope Europe can come out on prime.”
Watch Shane Lowry in motion all through 2025 reside on Sky Sports activities. Lowry subsequent options on the PGA Tour on the Cognizant Basic in The Palm Seashores, reside on Sky Sports activities Golf on Thursday from 4pm. Get Sky Sports activities or stream with no contract on NOW.
