Shane Lowry admits that the pain of his two early season near misses proved very difficult to overcome as his ultimately disappointing PGA Tour campaign came to a premature end as he failed to advance to the second FedEx Cup playoff event at the BMW Championship.
Lowry saw two chances for a first victory since 2022 slip by in Dubai and in Florida in quick succession. He double bogeyed the last hole in Dubai to miss out on victory. One could argue that he was unfortunate to do so but his Cognizant Classic collapse where he led by three shots with three holes to play only to double bogey 16 and 17 is what left scar tissue that he wasn’t able to recover from throughout the season.
He was also in contention going into Masters Sunday but a final round of 80 saw him tumble down the leaderboard and lose out on over $900,000.
The Offaly man’s PGA Tour season came to an end last week at the FedEx St Jude Championship when he was unable to progress to Bellerive this week as he finished outside the top-50 in the FedEx Cup rankings. The 2019 Open champion is now not guaranteed his spot in all of the $20 million Signature Events for next season and has slipped outside of the top-50 in the Official World Golf Rankings.
The expectation is that he will receive enough sponsor exemptions to get into the Signature Events he needs next year as he looks to consolidate his place in tier one of the PGA Tour’s restructured format for 2028.
For now, Lowry will regroup and prepare for the end of the DP World Tour season where he will begin his 2027 Ryder Cup qualification campaign at the Amgen Irish Open.
“End of a disappointing PGA Tour season. In truth not winning early in the season hurt and lingered for several months afterwards,” he said on social media.
“I’m happy with where my game is now and have an exciting part of my season ahead. A few weeks off to prepare for a run of DP World Tour events and the start of my Ryder Cup qualification campaign at Doonbeg.”
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