Shane Lowry couldn’t take advantage of some generous Friday morning conditions at Shinnecock Hills and he now looks set to miss the cut at the US Open.
Lowry fell to a second successive 73 to lie one shot outside the projected cut line on six-over with the bulk of the afternoon wave getting their second rounds underway.
Lowry’s wave was on the right side of the draw and were greeted by some pleasant morning conditions. After an opening bogey, two birdies in three holes on the 8th and 9th looked to have kickstarted his week. But as he lamented pre-tournament, blips in concentration and unexplainable errors crept in as he carded another innocuous double bogey on the par-3 11th, his second double of the week.
From there he couldn’t recover and chucked in bogeys on the 15th and 17th for a sour finish and he is facing a weekend off.
“Honestly, I feel like there’s a piece of the puzzle missing somewhere and I’ve been trying to figure it out and I don’t know what it is. I genuinely don’t,” shrugged the affable Offaly man who has struggled to put four rounds together.
“Sometimes, and maybe I’ll kill myself for saying this, but sometimes you feel like, I’d love to be not getting results from doing something really bad, because at least you know that’s what it is.”
Graeme McDowell and Pádraig Harrington have resumed from six and seven over respectively while Rory McIlroy is looking to remain in contention from one-under, six shots shy of Wyndham Clark.
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