As it was at the PGA Championship Shane Lowry could be heard cruising Oakmont as he missed the cut by a country mile. But, he had the last laugh…
Lowry, missed the cut by a staggering ten shots on 17-over-par. But he was able to see the funny side of life after incurring a one-stroke penalty for picking up his ball on the 14th green before marking it.
“It’s probably one of the stupidest things I’ve ever done,” Lowry said with a grin after he forgot to mark his 55-foot par putt at the 14th and walked off with a double bogey six.
“I just picked the ball up. I had the ball my hand turned around and (caddie) Darren (Reynolds) he basically said to me, ‘What are you doing?’
“I put it back down and marked it and played on and I knew it was gonna get penalised. I didn’t know if it was going to be one or two, but yeah, maybe I was just my mind was somewhere else, but I fought. I still tried.
“I fought over every shot. I still tried over every shot. And that’s all you can do, I suppose, in a week like this.”
It was a dismal week for Lowry who had come into the US Open as one of the favourites after finishing as runner-up here in 2016 and after several close shaves on the PGA Tour in recent weeks.
With a tee to green game fit to rival Scottie Scheffler this season, Lowry suffered on the greens, three putting four times in his 36-hole struggle, ranking 153rd out of 156 players for putting.
The Offaly man arrived five hours before his second round tee time to go through the hard yards on the practice green but he couldn’t put a finger on why he underperformed.
“I don’t know to be honest.
“I drove it in play a lot yesterday, did what I was supposed to off the tee, and then just didn’t have my game that I’ve had for the last while.
“And then I really struggled on the greens yesterday and the round got away from me here and that was it.
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