Shane Lowry finds pot of gold at the end of the rainbow, holes out for eagle at the Irish Open
It’s a home game this week for Shane Lowry at the Amgen Irish Open. The Ryder Cup stalwart had a tough end to his season, particularly in his oddly agitated return to Royal Portrush, but perhaps the luck of the Irish is finally turning his way on home soil this week.
On Friday at The K Club, Lowry was dialed in with his short irons, nearly holing this beauty from the fairway on the par-4 11th.
That was just a prelude of things to come, however. Two holes later, Lowry found himself marooned in a particularly nasty patch of rough with water lurking right. Though a considerably tougher approach than his dart on the 11th, Lowry completed the trick this time, watching as his ball hopped, checked and trickled into the bottom of the cup. Sound up for this one.
The gallery on Friday wasn’t 15 deep like it was for Rory McIlroy at Royal Portrush this summer, but Lowry’s countrymen and women still anointed his eagle with a mighty roar. U.S. Ryder Cup fans won’t be quite as enthusiastic—Lowry finding form before Bethpage Black could spell disaster for the Americans—but it was still nice to see the 2019 Open champ find a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow.