{"id":167977,"date":"2025-09-25T08:17:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-25T08:17:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/167977\/"},"modified":"2025-09-25T08:17:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-25T08:17:09","slug":"shane-lowry-drops-f-bomb-as-viktor-hovland-provides-massive-ryder-cup-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/167977\/","title":{"rendered":"Shane Lowry drops F-bomb as Viktor Hovland provides massive Ryder Cup update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Shane Lowry couldn&#8217;t hide his delight as Viktor Hovland shared a hugely positive update about the state of his golf game at the Ryder Cup.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Hovland stood alongside Lowry and Robert MacIntyre as the trio waited patiently to walk onto the stage for the Opening Ceremony at Bethpage.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Opening Ceremony was brought forward by 24 hours as a result of forecast storms on Thursday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It proved to be an Opening Ceremony where European captain Luke Donald <a href=\"https:\/\/www.golfmagic.com\/tour\/ryder-cup\/luke-donald-ballsiest-moment-ryder-cup-history\" data-entity-type=\"node\" data-entity-uuid=\"f7f8daf3-e790-4911-8c9d-9679c08b0a8f\" data-entity-substitution=\"canonical\" title=\"Luke Donald with ballsiest moment in Ryder Cup history?\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">mocked<\/a> Team USA for chasing prize money, and US captain Keegan Bradley <a href=\"https:\/\/www.golfmagic.com\/tour\/ryder-cup\/keegan-bradley-makes-shocking-mistake-during-ryder-cup-opening-ceremony-speech\" data-entity-type=\"node\" data-entity-uuid=\"f89310cb-8317-46f8-9344-3c59391e79e8\" data-entity-substitution=\"canonical\" title=\"Keegan Bradley makes shocking mistake during Ryder Cup Opening Ceremony speech\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">fudged a player&#8217;s name.<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>    <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/2025-09-23t133347z_1681273271_up1el9n11o9db_rtrmadp_3_golf-rydercup.JPG\"   type=\"image\/jpeg\" alt=\"Team Europe\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1.46\"\/> <\/p>\n<p>Team Europe<\/p>\n<p> Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p>As the Ryder Cup Europe social media camera panned to the Norwegian, he turned to Lowry and MacIntyre to say: &#8220;Yeah, it was good on the range&#8230; I haven&#8217;t had a range session like that for two years!&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Lowry replied: &#8220;F*** yes&#8230; now that&#8217;s what I was hoping for.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Irishman then gave Hovland a hug as MacIntyre put his hand to his face.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Watch the hilarious moment here:<\/p>\n<p>Hovland is making his third straight appearance on the European Ryder Cup team.<\/p>\n<p>He has a 45% strike rate with a playing record of 3-4-3.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Viktor Hovland Ryder Cup Record<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-align-center\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-align-center\">Appearances<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-align-center\">Matches<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-align-center\">Record<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-align-center\">Points %<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-align-center\">Top Points Combined<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-align-center\">Top Points Europe<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-align-center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.golfmagic.com\/players\/viktor-hovland\" data-entity-type=\"external\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Viktor Hovland<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"text-align-center\">2<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-align-center\">10<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-align-center\">3\u20134\u20133<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-align-center\">45.00<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-align-center\">22\/1<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-align-center\">11\/1<\/p>\n<p>Hovland has endured mixed results on the PGA Tour in 2025.<\/p>\n<p>He won the Valspar Championship earlier in the season but he has since registered just three top-10 finishes since then.<\/p>\n<p> Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p>Thankfully though, two of those top-10s have come in two of his last three starts entering Bethpage.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to our Newsletter<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Shane Lowry couldn&#8217;t hide his delight as Viktor Hovland shared a hugely positive update about the state of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":167978,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[443],"tags":[49,48,622,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-167977","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-golf","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167977","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=167977"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167977\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/167978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}