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East Oregonian
Tuesday, July 23, 2019
Out of the shadows of Irish golf, Lowry a major champion
By DOUG FERGUSON
AP Golf Writer
PORTRUSH, Ireland —
No longer in the shadows of
Irish golf, Shane Lowry now
has his name etched on the
base of the silver claret jug.
It’s on there with more
than a century’s worth of the
best that have conquered the
links to win the British Open.
Lowry gazed at the oldest
trophy in golf as he tried to
soak up his storybook finish
Sunday at Royal Portrush, a
course wet first from rain and
then from tears.
“I can’t believe this is
mine,” Lowry said after his
six-shot victory .
He earned his place with
a 63 in the third round that
broke the 54-hole scoring
record at the British Open
and staked him to a four-shot
lead. And then he handled the
nerves and expectations, both
in abundance, and never let
anyone closer than three shots.
A year ago, Lowry sat in
a parking lot at Carnoustie
and cried after missing the
cut in the British Open for the
fourth straight year.
“Golf wasn’t my friend at
the time,” he said.
And there he was Sunday,
in rain and wind so ferocious
that pars felt like birdies,
never giving anyone much of
a chance as he closed with a
1-over 72 for the largest mar-
gin of victory in the Open in
AP Photo/Peter Morrison
Ireland’s Shane Lowry holds and kisses the Claret Jug trophy after winning the British Open
Golf Championships at Royal Portrush in Northern Ireland on Sunday.
nine years.
Lowry isn’t afraid to be
honest, and he didn’t mind
telling caddie Bo Martin that
he was nervous, scared and
worried he would mess up for
a raucous, rollicking crowd
that wanted nothing more
than to celebrate with him.
“I suppose I didn’t even
know going out this morning
if I was good enough to win
a major,” Lowry said. “And
look, I’m here now, a major
champion. I can’t believe I’m
saying it, to be honest.”
So many others in the Irish
golf community can.
Graeme McDowell recalls
a story from famed swing
coach Pete Cowen, who
long ago traveled to Dublin
to scout the Irish Boys golf
team. They were curious
about his views on the obvi-
ous star — a teenager named
Rory McIlroy — except that
Cowen saw more.
“The guy said, ‘Who do
you like?’ And he said, ‘Rory
McIlroy looks pretty good,
but that slightly overweight
kid with the glasses on ...
he looks good,’” McDowell
said. “So he’s always been
talented.”
That kid was Lowry, so
talented that he was still an
amateur 10 years ago when
he won the Irish Open at
County Louth.
McDowell
remembers
something else about that
Irish Open, the first time he
met Lowry.
“I just shot 61 at Baltray,
and he came in and shot 62,”
McDowell said. “And he
didn’t even introduce him-
self. He said, ‘I can’t believe
you beat me by one out there.’
And I’m like, ‘Who’s this
kid?’”
That kid is now “champion
golfer of the year.”
Lowry could barely con-
tain his joy when he rolled
in an 8-foot birdie putt on the
15th hole for a six-shot lead
with three to play. He knew it
was over when he found the
fairway on the 17th because
“I knew that I could really
lose a ball from there.”
The cheers got louder with
each step closer to the fin-
ish line, and Lowry stretched
out his arms when his second
shot to the 18th was safely on
the fringe. Waiting to cele-
brate with him was McDow-
ell, a former U.S. Open cham-
pion who grew up at Portrush;
Padraig Harrington, who
preceded Lowry as the first
Irishman to win a major;
four-time major champion
Brooks Koepka and his cad-
die, Rickie Elliott, also raised
at Portrush and once a prom-
ising amateur in Irish golf.
Lowry was asked earlier
in the week if he felt like a for-
gotten Irishman.
The return of the British
Open to Northern Ireland for
the first time in 68 years was
all about McIlroy, McDowell
and Darren Clarke, a trio of
Ulstermen with major cham-
pionships. No one in these
parts — the largest Open
crowd outside of St. Andrews
— will forget Lowry and his
performance.
“Everyone knows we’re all
one country when it comes to
golf,” Lowry said.
The names on the claret
jug include Harry Vardon
and Bobby Jones, Jack Nick-
laus and Tiger Woods. Lowry
would be equally satisfied to
see his name below Clarke
and McIlroy, Harrington and
Fred Daly.
He held the jug aloft on the
18th green and said to crowd,
“This one’s for you.”
Lowry was headed home
for a celebration — the Irish
are known for that, too.
“It’s not going to sink in
for a couple of days, is it?” he
said.
He won for the fifth time
in his career, a short list that
includes big wins — the Irish
Open as an amateur, a World
Golf Championship at Fires-
tone and earlier this year in the
Abu Dhabi Championship.
“The one thing you want
to do is back up your suc-
cess,” Lowry said. “In the
short term, I’m going to enjoy
this, there’s no doubt about
that. My big goal still remains
the same, and that is to be
on the plane going to Whis-
tling Straits next year (for
the Ryder Cup). Hopefully,
that involves a couple of wins
along the way.”
It will be hard to beat this
one — an Irishman winning
the first Open in Northern
Ireland since 1951.
He stood near the tunnel
leading to stairs away from
the 18th green with family,
friends, coaches and major
champions. He wasn’t the
other Irishman or even the
forgotten Irishman. He was a
major champion.
“He can create his own
shadows,” McDowell said.
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