Shane Lowry finished in a share of second after a disastrous meltdown at the Cognizant Classic in The Palm Beaches.
“I’m obviously extremely disappointed. I had the tournament in my hands, and I threw it away,” Lowry said.
“I didn’t get ahead of myself, but I felt so comfortable out there, and then yeah, tried to get a lot out of my 3-iron on 16 and did the only thing I couldn’t really do,” Lowry admitted.
Lowry was also firmly in the mix for a win at the Dubai Invitational earlier this year on the DP World Tour, but made a double bogey on the final hole of the week to end up in a tie for second there as well.
“I’d say I was beaten that day. But I beat myself today,” Lowry said.
“What more can I say? That’s twice this year now so far. I’m getting good at it. Yeah, look, what can I say? I played unbelievable all day, and one bad shot on 16 completely threw me for the last three holes. It’s never happened to me before.
“Geez, this is going to be hard to take. Dubai was hard at the start of the year, but this is going to be pretty hard.”
Shane Lowry’s tee shots on 16 and 17.
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Hard, especially, Lowry admitted, because he had a chance to win in front of his 4-year-old daughter for the first time. She was there waiting for him.
“I only wanted it for her today. … I don’t care about anything else. I wanted it so bad. Just to see her little ginger hair running down the 18th green would have been the most special thing in the world. I thought I had it. I thought I was going to win..”
Almost everyone else thought the same. But with golf, like life, time goes on.
“I have a tee time next Thursday in Bay Hill,” Lowry said, “and I have no choice but to move on.”
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