{"id":204329,"date":"2025-10-16T14:14:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T14:14:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/204329\/"},"modified":"2025-10-16T14:14:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T14:14:08","slug":"ryder-cup-loophole-will-mean-shane-lowry-can-add-to-lucrative-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/204329\/","title":{"rendered":"Ryder Cup Loophole Will Mean Shane Lowry Can Add To Lucrative Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Shane Lowry has had a year to remember after his Ryder Cup heroics at Bethpage Black in New York and it is set to continue.<\/p>\n<p>The 2019 Open champion sank the crucial putt to retain the coveted trophy for Europe and ensure victory on U.S soil for the first time since 2012.<\/p>\n<p>He showed incredible mettle to claim the requisite half-point and take Europe to a tally of 14, ensuring the title will still be theirs.<\/p>\n<p>Lowry won two of his final three holes against Russell Henley to save Europe from their greatest Ryder Cup embarrassment as the hosts mounted a comeback.<\/p>\n<p>It was undoubtedly the high point in a season which rendered no individual wins, his best result coming when he was pipped by Sepp Straka at the Truist Championship.<\/p>\n<p>Shane Lowry can add to lucrative year thanks to loophole<\/p>\n<p>\n        Recommended\n    <\/p>\n<p>                        <a :href=\"https:\/\/www.balls.ie\/golf\/article.url\" :title=\"article.title\" :aria-label=\"article.title\" class=\"not-prose col-span-2 md:col-span-1 ga-event\" data-category=\"Recommended Article Tracker\" data-action=\"click\" :data-label=\"https:\/\/www.balls.ie\/golf\/article.url\" :data-value=\"https:\/\/www.balls.ie\/golf\/article.url\"><\/p>\n<p>                                            <img class=\"aspect-video\" width=\"130\" height=\"73\" :src=\"https:\/\/www.balls.ie\/golf\/article.image\" :alt=\"'Image for: ' + article.title\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                        <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Lowry finished 20th on the PGA Tour money list for 2025, amassing $7,082,794 (\u20ac6.3million) in winnings.<\/p>\n<p>However, he will get an unexpected chance to add to his earnings when he takes to the DP World Tour Championship &#8211; despite not qualifying for the event through the points system.<\/p>\n<p>The season-ending Playoffs, which take place in Abu Dhabi and Dubai, are reserved for the top 70 and then top 50 ranked players in the Race To Dubai standings.<\/p>\n<p>Lowry finished 155th having played the majority of his golf Stateside, and was expected to miss out.<\/p>\n<p>However, a loophole states that Team Europe Ryder Cup participants automatically qualify for the event, despite their ranking.<\/p>\n<p>The winner of the Abu Dhabi HSBC Championship will pocket in the region of \u20ac1.5milllion while the winner in Dubai will bank almost twice that sum.<\/p>\n<p>Tommy Fleetwood, Ludvid Aberg and Strake have also availed of the loophole and will compete for the prize.<\/p>\n<p>SEE ALSO:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.balls.ie\/golf\/footage-rory-mcilroys-wife-erica-hit-by-pint-beer-ryder-cup-640988\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">New Footage Emerges Of Moment McIlroy&#8217;s Wife Hit By Pint At Ryder Cup<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Shane Lowry has had a year to remember after his Ryder Cup heroics at Bethpage Black in New&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":204330,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[5904,3027,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-204329","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-golf","9":"tag-shane-lowry","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-uk","12":"tag-united-kingdom","13":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204329","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=204329"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204329\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/204330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}