Sunday 21 July 2019
Find out what clubs Shane Lowry used to win The Open Championship at Royal Portrush Driver: Srixon Z 585 (9.5 degrees) Shaft: Mitsubishi Diamana White 70X 3-wood: TaylorMade M4 (15 degrees) Shaft: Graphite Design Tour AD DI-8X Related: Shane Lowry “Winning The Open hasn’t changed me” Irons: Srixon Z U85 (2, 3), Srixon Z 575 (4, 5), Srixon Z 785 (6-PW) Shafts: Mitsubishi Tensei CK Pro White...
Written by Camilla Tait on Sunday 21 July 2019
Shane Lowry has been crowned the 2019 Champion Golfer of the Year in front of home crowds after winning the claret jug at Royal Portrush. Shane Lowry expertly navigated an afternoon of brutal scoring conditions to claim his maiden major title by six shots as the Open Championship returned to Ireland for the first time in 68 years. With huge crowds lining...
Written by Michael Catling on Sunday 21 July 2019
Sell-out crowds, spectacular views and a course which ‘ticked every box’. Why Royal Portrush is a new jewel in The Open’s crown. As far as second round auditons go, Royal Portrush delivered a spectacle that left Tiger Woods and many others asking why it had taken The R&A so long to bring The Open back to Northern Ireland. It was a valid...
Written by Michael Catling on Sunday 21 July 2019
All the facts, figures and record-breaking feats from the final round of the 148th Open Championship at Royal Portrush. ONE Shane Lowry won by six shots to claim his first major win and the title of Champion Golfer of the Year. He’s the only man in history to win his first two PGA Tour titles in a major and WGC, and the...
Written by Michael Catling on Sunday 21 July 2019
Koepka misses out on history Were it not for four consecutive bogeys to start his final round, Brooks Koepka might have departed Royal Portrush as the first player in the modern era to finish third or better in all four majors in a season. Instead, he fell one shot short of history, albeit with an incredible record that now reads second, first,...
Written by Camilla Tait on Sunday 21 July 2019
2019 Open Champion Shane Lowry will receive $1.935 million from a total prize fund of $10.75 million for winning the Claret Jug The total purse ($10.750 million) for this year’s Open at Portrush has increased by $250,000 from last year, with the Shane Lowry’s winner’s share also increasing to $1.935 – $45,000 more than Francesco Molinari took home after being crowned...
Saturday 20 July 2019
World No. 1 Brooks Koepka says he has hit the ball as good as he ‘could possibly imagine’ this week but ‘really bad’ putting has left him needing a lot of help if he wants to win the Open on Sunday Brooks Koepka was frustrated after he failed to capitalise on the greens at Royal Portrush for a third day in...
Saturday 20 July 2019
Tommy Fleetwood said he is ‘very happy to have that challenge’ of a final round pairing with Shane Lowry as he heads in to the final round at Royal Portrush four-shots behind Tommy Fleetwood is relishing the challenge of a final round pairing with third-round leader Shane Lowry as he searches for his maiden major title at the Open Championship on...
Written by Michael Catling on Saturday 20 July 2019
The 148th Open: Final round tee times Note: Sunday’s tee times have been moved forward to 7:32am due to the predicted bad weather, with the leaders going out at 1.47pm 07.32: Ashton Turner +7 07.42: Shubhankar Sharma +6, Kiradech Aphibarnrat +5 07.52: Eddie Pepperell +5, Nino Bertasio +5 08.02: Paul Waring +5, Thorbjorn Olesen +4 08.12: Jason Kokrak +4, Branden Grace +3...
Written by Camilla Tait on Saturday 20 July 2019
Shane Lowry set a course record of 63 and will take a four shot lead in to the final round of the 148th Open Championship The atmosphere was a level about europhic when Shane Lowry walked down the 18th fairway to chants of ‘ole, ole, ole’, and the celebrations continued long after he put the finishing touches on an eight-under par...
Written by Michael Catling on Saturday 20 July 2019
What the players said: From Schauffele’s swipe at The R&A and Fowler’s love of movies to Koepka’s frustrations and Finau’s new putting grip… J.B Holmes still didn’t feel great after shooting a two-under, 69 “When you’re playing with a guy making everything, it feels like you shot a million.” Shane Lowry felt a million dollars after his record-breaking round “That’s the most...
Written by Camilla Tait on Saturday 20 July 2019
Kyle Stanley has fired back after Robert MacIntyre criticsed him for not shouting ‘fore’: “he left out quite a few details. I wouldn’t really say that was an accurate description of what happened.” Kyle Stanley has said he was ‘surprised’ by comments made by Robert MacIntyre after the pair were involved in a discussion about shouting ‘fore’ on Friday, stating that the...
Written by Michael Catling on Saturday 20 July 2019
All the facts and figures from Saturday at The Open, including Lowry’s record-breaking stats and a bad omen for Fleetwood & Co. ONE The number of birdies made on the par-3 6th, the lowest on any hole. Nearly a quarter of the field hit the green in regulation, but averaged 1.92 putts. THREE Sixteen of the previous 19 Open champions were at/within...
Written by Michael Catling, Camilla Tait on Saturday 20 July 2019
All the big talking points from the third round of the Open as Shane Lowry leads by four, Xander Schauffele takes a swipe at The R&A, and Robert MacIntyre’s war of words with Kyle Stanley takes another twist… The atmosphere was electric around the 18th green as Shane Lowry two-putted his way to a course record of 63, and will head...
Written by Camilla Tait on Saturday 20 July 2019
Xander Schauffele is ‘pissed off’ with governing body after he became first person to have their driver deemed ‘non-conforming’ in R&A’s random testing at Royal Portrush. And it turns out his wasn’t the only one Xander Schauffele had a ‘run in’ with the governing body after he became the first person to fail the R&A’s random driver testing, having been selected...
Written by Michael Catling on Saturday 20 July 2019
A furious Robert MacIntyre confronted playing partner Kyle Stanley during the second round of The Open at Royal Portrush after the American twice hit people in the crowds without shouting ‘fore’, including his caddie’s mother. The Scot, who is making his Open debut this week, was angered when the two-time PGA Tour winner first hit a marshal on the shin with...
Friday 19 July 2019
The 148th Open: Third Round tee times 9.35 am: Paul Waring (+1) 9.45 am: Francesco Molinari (+1), Jason Kokrak (+1) 9.55 am: Graeme McDowell (+1), Bubba Watson (+1) 10.05 am: Charley Hoffman (+1), Ashton Turner (+1) 10.15 am: Yosuke Asaji (+1), Andrew Wilson (+1) 10.25 am: Yuki Inamori (+1), Matthew Wallace (+1) 10.35 am: Nino Bertasio (+1), Tom Lewis (+1) 10.45...
Written by Camilla Tait on Friday 19 July 2019
Rory McIlroy tied the lowest round of the day with a six-under-par 65 on Friday but still came up one shot shy of making the cut at the 148th Open Championship There was nobody better at Royal Portrush than Rory McIlroy on Friday, but despite putting together the best round of the day the World No.3 is still heading home early...
Friday 19 July 2019
J.B. Holmes and Shane Lowry hold a share of the 36-hole lead heading in to the weekend at The Open as 11 players sit within three strokes Shane Lowry posted a four-under 67 for the second day in a row to join J.B. Holmes at the top of the Open leaderboard after 36 holes. Lowry was left playing catch-up as Holmes...
Written by Michael Catling on Friday 19 July 2019
Tiger Woods: “I just want to go home” Tiger Woods has confirmed he will not be playing the WGC-FedEx St Jude Invitational in Memphis after missing the cut at The Open for just the third time in 21 career starts. The 15-time champion shot rounds of 77 and 70 to finish on six-over-par at Royal Portrush, and blamed fatigue as he sought to...