While several stellar names wilted, the 2019 champion fought back from a costly error at the 11th to lead the field at halfway
As the wind whipped, Shane Lowry let rip. Royal Troon’s 11th hole is treacherous enough without unwanted interventions. As Lowry stood above his second shot, a cameraman raised his lens. Lowry arrowed the ball straight left and into a gorse bush. Open Championship bids can be reduced to ruin with moments such as these.
Lowry takes up the story of a scenario that played out over 20 minutes. “There was a cameraman and as he was walking up, I asked him to stop or move back and he just kind of stayed there,”said. “As I was over the ball, he put his camera up. I saw it out of the corner of my eye. I should have stood off it, my own fault.” Suffice to say, this was not Lowry’s sentiment at the time.
“I hit a great provisional. The referee asked me going down, did I want to find my first one, and I said no. So I assumed that was OK. Then we get down there and somebody had found it. So apparently we have to find it then, or you have to go and identify it. I thought if you declared it lost before it was found that you didn’t have to go and identify it. I was happy enough leaving there with a six. It wasn’t a disaster.
Lowry’s prominence owes much to preparation. He visited Troon the week before the Open, where he was able to test the course in a similar wind to what has been in play in competition days. “If I give myself a chance on Sunday, I know I can do it,” Lowry added. This of course conjures memories of Royal Portrush, five years ago.. General consensus may have been that the 272nd ranked player in the world would disappear on day two after first-round heroics that put him atop the leaderboard.
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