The Offaly man blew a three-shot lead with three holes to play<\/a> last Sunday as Nico Echavarria swooped in to take victory, denying the 38-year-old a first individual success since the BMW Championship at Wentworth in 2022.<\/p>\nDespite a double-bogey at the 16th, Lowry still led by the bare minimum when he stood at the 17th tee, before he found water again to compound his woes.<\/p>\n
The 2019 Open champion insists he will take heart from the majority of the golf he played on Sunday that sent him clear of the pack.<\/p>\n
“Hopefully, I can keep putting myself there,” he told Sirius XM Sports. “I think that’s all I can do, if I keep putting myself there and try to focus on the positives from last week<\/p>\n
“I think I played, for a lot of the tournament last week, some of the best golf of my whole career. And I felt so in control out there. And then it was, you know, one bad swing took it all away from me.”<\/p>\n
Lowry, who tees off at 3.40pm Irish time at Bay Hill today, says his support network has been strong.<\/p>\n
“On Sunday night, I didn’t sleep at all, really,” he said. “You go through all the scenarios in your head and the regrets you have, but you know, I’m very fortunate. I’ve got a great support network around me<\/p>\n
“I had some amazing people reach out to me over the 24 hours after that. I got one particular phone call from an Irish sportsperson who I really admire, and he was very, very kind to me.”<\/p>\n
Closer to home, his nine-year-old daughter Iris has also allowed him greater perspective on the final round meltdown at Palm Beaches.<\/p>\n
“It was my daughter’s (ninth) birthday yesterday, and I took her to Starbucks on the way to school,” Lowry explained<\/p>\n
“And we were sitting there, and a friend of mine came over to the car, and honestly, speaking to people over the last few days, it\u2019s like someone had passed away.<\/p>\n
“When they see me, they’re like, afraid to talk to me, and I’m like, ‘No, I’m fine\u2019, or whatever.<\/p>\n
“And my daughter just turned around, and she goes, \u2018Dad, why is everyone acting so sad that you finished second? Like, second\u2019s, good.\u2019<\/p>\n
“So, yeah, a little bit of perspective there. She’s like, \u2018It’s not like you finished last.\u2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Shane Lowry says perspective has allowed him process his closing round disaster at last weekend’s Cogizant Classic as…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":460212,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[5904,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-460211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-golf","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460211","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=460211"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460211\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/460212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=460211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=460211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=460211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}