{"id":443091,"date":"2026-01-30T13:45:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T13:45:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/443091\/"},"modified":"2026-01-30T13:45:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T13:45:07","slug":"lifes-coming-at-us-really-quick-distracted-justin-lower-opens-with-63-at-farmers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/443091\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Life&#8217;s coming at us really quick&#8217;: Distracted Justin Lower opens with 63 at Farmers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SAN DIEGO \u2013 Most PGA Tour players try to keep their emotions locked away, both on and off the course. Justin Lower is not that player.<\/p>\n<p>After missing the cut at last year\u2019s RSM Classic, he lamented a year filled with missed opportunities and his position on the season-long points standings, which would limit his status in 2026.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m human, I don\u2019t know what else to do, but God, I am just so mad right now. Like, if I could just have somehow turned it around this year, but I obviously couldn\u2019t,\u201d Lower said at Sea Island [Ga.] Resort. \u201cThis game is just really hard. I don\u2019t know what to do, I don\u2019t know what to say. I need to figure out how to get better.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday at the Farmers Insurance Open, Lower\u2019s second consecutive start, there were more emotions, but this time it was following a 9-under 63 on the North Course that lifted him into second place.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHonestly, if I\u2019m being really truthful with everyone, my mind\u2019s not really here. My wife [Janise] is 34 weeks pregnant with twins and I\u2019m just trying to get home on Monday, honestly, to try to help everything out as much as I can,\u201d Lower said. \u201cLuckily, we have family close and everything. Yeah, she\u2019s going through it right now. Life\u2019s about to get real, if it wasn\u2019t real already.\u201d<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">&#8220;Honestly &#8230; my mind&#8217;s not really here right now.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Justin Lower&#8217;s wife Janise is 34 weeks pregnant with twins, and Lower can&#8217;t wait to get home to Ohio on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime, he opened <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FarmersInsOpen?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@FarmersInsOpen<\/a> in 9-under 63 and looks to return home with his first PGA TOUR title. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/by7OoGqADn\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/by7OoGqADn<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 PGA TOUR (@PGATOUR) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PGATOUR\/status\/2017017670487421387?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">January 29, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Lower had two eagles and six birdies Thursday and trails Justin Rose by a shot. After finishing outside the top 100 last year, he has limited status this season (he missed the cut last week at the American Express). A solid week at Torrey Pines would improve that status, but he admitted his focus is understandably on his family and what promises to be an eventful few months.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s just a lot. We have a 3-year-old right now as well. Life\u2019s coming at us really quick,\u201d he said. \u201cThen obviously, like on my side, first year in a while without full status. I would say, a little uncertainty there. Yeah, it\u2019s just kind of the way it is. Just trying to take it one day at a time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>                                <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN DIEGO \u2013 Most PGA Tour players try to keep their emotions locked away, both on and off&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":443092,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[443],"tags":[49,48,622,82],"class_list":["post-443091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-golf","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443091","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=443091"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443091\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/443092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=443091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=443091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=443091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}