penalized two shots<\/a> when TV replay showed his practice swing accidentally moved his ball.<\/p>\nThat ruling, which Lowry did not argue, made him even par for the tournament instead of 2-under, which he would have been had he not been penalized.<\/p>\n
Making matters worse than the triple bogey he took on No. 14 and a bogey on 17, Lowry wasn\u2019t feeling well physically on Saturday.<\/p>\n
\u201cI tried to get a protein drink down me after eight holes and I felt like throwing up all over the place,\u2019\u2019 he said. \u201cIt\u2019s been a tough day, but I\u2019m not going to make excuses. I played poorly today and obviously had a bad finish.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n
Lowry called the penalty ruling that took the air out of his week \u201chard to take.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n
Shane Lowry of Ireland walks off the ninth green during Day Three of The 153rd Open Championship at Royal Portrush Golf Club on July 19, 2025 in Portrush, Northern Ireland. Getty Images<\/p>\n
\u201cYou get home late and have to dust yourself off,\u2019\u2019 he said. \u201cWake up at 2:30 with cramps in my stomach. I know we have it in the house. [My daughter] Ivy had it a couple of days ago.<\/p>\n
\u201cI wanted to do well so badly this week,\u2019\u2019 Lowry went on. \u201cI put so much into this week that, yeah, it\u2019s hard to take. I didn\u2019t get to enjoy today as much as I would have liked. Saturday at the Open in your home country, I should enjoy it a lot more than I did.<\/p>\n
\u201cHopefully, I get out tomorrow morning and try and enjoy it as best I can, try to shoot the best score I can and then have a couple weeks off before the playoffs. My big mindset for the next few months is about the Ryder Cup and trying to win that. That\u2019s where all my work is going to go towards over the next while.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n
Jon Rahm, after his round Saturday, was sympathetic to what Lowry had to endure with the penalty.<\/p>\n
Shane Lowry of Ireland tees off on the 10th hole during Day Three of The 153rd Open Championship at Royal Portrush Golf Club on July 19, 2025 in Portrush, Northern Ireland. Getty Images<\/p>\n
\u201cI can relate because I\u2019ve been there,\u2019\u2019 Rahm said. \u201cThey\u2019ve done exactly the same thing to me where they give you the iPad, and look what happened. You\u2019re in a no-win situation, because if you say, \u2018I didn\u2019t see it therefore I don\u2019t think it should be a penalty,\u2019 even though the rule says it should be visible to the naked eye, you always run the risk of being called something you don\u2019t want to be called.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd if you take it on the safe side, you\u2019re taking a two-shot penalty. If he starts at 2-under today, you have a good Saturday, you can put yourself in contention. When you get 10 shots back, it\u2019s a little bit harder. It\u2019s a tough spot to be in.\u201d<\/p>\n
Bryson DeChambeau kept his momentum from a strong second round to make the cut with a 68 on Saturday to get to 2-under for the week.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe past three days I\u2019ve been playing some great golf, I\u2019ve been striping it,\u2019\u2019 he said. \u201cMy game\u2019s in a great place. I\u2019m still proud of the resilience that I had. I wish I could have done more today to give myself a better chance for tomorrow, but that\u2019s golf. I should have played better the first day.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n
DeChambeau was put on the clock for slow play in the 17th hole and afterward addressed the slow-play epidemic in professional golf.<\/p>\n
Bryson Dechambeau tees off on the 15th hole during the third round. Mike Frey-Imagn Images<\/p>\n
\u201cI can tell you, first two rounds it was out of control what I saw,\u2019\u2019 DeChambeau said of the pace of play. \u201cYou eventually [should] time everybody for their entire round. Nobody wants to do it because people are too scared to get exposed, which I am an advocate for. I think it would be more fair towards everybody.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf somebody is playing slower, the guy can go up to him and say, \u2018Hey, man, you\u2019re over-par with your time.\u2019 All you do is you just time them for every single shot. It\u2019s not rocket science.\u201d<\/p>\n
John Parry carded the first hole-in-one of the tournament when he jarred an 8-iron on the par-3 12th hole Saturday. Parry said it was the 10th ace of his career, but that one was \u201cdefinitely the best one, 100 percent.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n
\u201cThe sort of experience you get making a hole-in-one in this atmosphere was absolutely amazing,\u2019\u2019 he said.<\/p>\n
Justin Leonard, who won the Claret Jug in 1997, played the weekend in a major on Saturday for the first time since 2014.<\/p>\n
Justin Leonard reacts after teeing off on the 13th hole during the second round of The 153rd Open Championship golf tournament. IMAGN IMAGES via Reuters Connect<\/p>\n
\u201cYes, there are emotions,\u2019\u2019 the 53-year-old said. \u201cI\u2019m just happy that I came over here and played the way I did the last couple of days. To come over at my experience \u2014 and age \u2014 and make the cut is pretty special. Then to come out and play pretty solid today (1-under-par 70) felt good. I feel like me making the cut is kind of contending.<\/p>\n
\u201cPlaying well and making the cut this week, when I do come back, I\u2019ll kind of have that great memory to think that I can probably do it again.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n
Lee Westwood\u2019s fine week continued on Saturday as he shot a third-round 69. But it wasn\u2019t your ordinary 69. The 52-year-old Westwood, who hasn\u2019t played a major championship since 2022, shot 40 on the front nine and followed that with a 29 on the back.<\/p>\n
That tied Ryan Fox for the lowest back nine shot at a Portrush Open. Westwood actually lipped out his birdie putt on 18, which could have given him a 28 and the record by himself.<\/p>\n
Westwood, who\u2019s never won a major, has three times finished runner-up in majors, 12 times in the top five, and 19 times in the top 10.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PORTRUSH, Northern Ireland \u2014 Shane Lowry\u2019s Portrush British Open defense won\u2019t officially be dead until Sunday\u2019s final round…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9832,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[443],"tags":[4460,49,48,622,82],"class_list":["post-9831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-british-open","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-golf","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9831","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=9831"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9831\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}