Sign up now!!!<\/a><\/p>\nThere was a brief moment where Lowry looked like he may hole out for eagle from the greenside bunker at the par 5 18th to force a playoff.<\/p>\n
But it rolled past the cup and he two-putted for par.<\/p>\n
Lowry had not made a double bogey in 305 holes on the PGA Tour before his collapse, but it is the second time this year that he has snatched defeat from the jaws of victory.<\/p>\n
The Ryder Cup star led by a shot on the final hole in Dubai in January, but rocketed a bunker shot through the green and into the water on his way to making double bogey and losing the tournament.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m obviously extremely disappointed. I had the tournament in my hands, and I threw it away. What more can I say? That\u2019s twice this year now so far. I\u2019m getting good at it,\u201d Lowry said. <\/p>\n
\u201cYeah, 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\u2019s never happened to me before. <\/p>\n
\u201cI said to (caddie) Darren (Reynolds), how do I feel like this now when I went through what I did last September in Bethpage and got through that fine? <\/p>\n
\u201cI just felt like it was weird out there; I just really — yeah, just couldn\u2019t feel the club face the last three holes then after my tee shot on 16. It was strange. What can I say? It\u2019s very disappointing. <\/p>\n
\u201cGeez, 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.\u201d<\/p>\n
Lowry also revealed the heartache of desperately wanting to win in front of his daughter for the first time in his career.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe hardest thing about today is I\u2019ve never won in front of my four-year-old, and she was there waiting for me,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n
\u201cYeah, I only wanted it for her today. I didn\u2019t want it for — I don\u2019t 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. <\/p>\n
\u201cI thought I had it. I thought I was going to win. I didn\u2019t 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\u2019t really do.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Shane Lowry suffered a spectacular meltdown as Nico Echavarria claimed his third PGA Tour title at the Cognizant…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":513179,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[566],"tags":[2095,1724,64,256857,63,256860,256855,120358,5951,222085,256854,2755,755,1745,64922,24415,34913,2041,2067,256853,1656,256856,256859,85,256862,256858,2614,256861,12000,2836],"class_list":{"0":"post-513178","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-asia","10":"tag-au","11":"tag-austin-smotherman","12":"tag-australia","13":"tag-ball-strikers-course","14":"tag-brutal-end","15":"tag-double-bogey","16":"tag-dubai","17":"tag-final-hole","18":"tag-five-under-final","19":"tag-florida","20":"tag-golf","21":"tag-golf-news","22":"tag-greenside-bunker","23":"tag-jack-nicklaus","24":"tag-nico-echavarria","25":"tag-north-america","26":"tag-northern-america","27":"tag-rich-beem","28":"tag-shane-lowry","29":"tag-sharing-runner-up-honours","30":"tag-spectacular-meltdown","31":"tag-sports","32":"tag-taylor-moore","33":"tag-toughest-three-hole-stretch","34":"tag-united-states-of-america","35":"tag-water-balls","36":"tag-western-asia","37":"tag-world-title"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=513178"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513178\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/513179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=513178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=513178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=513178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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