Shane Lowry finished way down the field, as Ryder Cup teammate Matt Fitzpatrick picked up his second PGA Tour win of the year.
Matt Fitzpatrick celebrates his win.(Image: (Photo by Tracy Wilcox/PGA TOUR via Getty Images))
Shane Lowry could only card a final round of 72 as he slipped to 42nd position at the RBC Heritage.
One week on from falling apart while in contention at the Masters, Lowry was unable to get himself into position to challenge the leaders this week, finishing on 6-under-par, a full 12 strokes behind eventual winner Matt Fitzpatrick, who bested Scottie Scheffler in a play-off.
Shane Lowry during round 2 of the RBC Heritage.(Image: (Photo by Andrew Redington/Getty Images))
Even with being an also-ran this week, Lowry still walks away with a respectable chunk of change, with $55,300 (€47,021) awarded in prize money for his efforts at Harbor Town.
The week belonged to Englishman Fitzpatrick, who had to sit on a large lead and watch as Scheffler hunted him down over the weekend to force a play-off. The US Open champion of 2022 held his nerve when it mattered most, stitching a long-iron close before making Birdie on the first play-off hole to seal a dramatic win.
“To win it twice means the world,” he said. “To go toe-to-toe with Scottie and get over the line at the 73rd [hole] is special.”
Fitzpatrick also revealed that his caddie borrowed some words of wisdom from Rory McIlroy’s bagman Harry Diamond to get the Englishman into the right frame of mind heading into the play-off with Scheffler.
“He (caddie Dan Parratt) actually said, ‘go and get to the tee. We would have taken this at the start of the week’.
“I know Rory said that the other week so I jokingly said to Dan, ‘OK here he is, Harry Diamond (McIlroy’s caddie)’.
“We had a good laugh about that, but I felt I was in a good spot and to hit the four-iron there was out of this world.