{"id":513308,"date":"2026-04-04T23:24:15","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T23:24:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/513308\/"},"modified":"2026-04-04T23:24:15","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T23:24:15","slug":"hes-the-most-competitive-person-i-know-shane-lowrys-sc-coach-on-hard-work-weight-change-and-what-makes-offaly-man-tick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/513308\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018He\u2019s the most competitive person I know\u2019 &#8211; Shane Lowry&#8217;s S&#038;C coach on hard work, weight change and what makes Offaly man tick"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Robbie Cannon grew up playing against the Open winner, these days he is a key member of the 39-year-old&#8217;s team\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Strength and conditioning coach Robbie Cannon at his clinic in Santry. Photo: Frank McGrath\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/IS Robbie Cannon 4.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Strength and conditioning coach Robbie Cannon at his clinic in Santry. Photo: Frank McGrath<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">There are worse ways to winter. A couple of months back, Robbie Cannon was in a fourball with Shane Lowry at The Grove XXIII, a small corner of paradise tucked away on the outskirts of Hobe Sound in Florida. The Roman numerals represent the famed jersey number of the uber-private members club\u2019s proprietor, Michael Jordan.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">They were playing Wolf. The intricacies of the game need not unduly detain us here, but briefly: players rotate the titular role and hit off last, then select a partner with the advantage of seeing the others\u2019 drives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Robbie Cannon grew up playing against the Open winner, these days he is a key member of the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":513309,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[48001,5904,3027,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-513308","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-conor-mckeon","9":"tag-golf","10":"tag-shane-lowry","11":"tag-sports","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom","14":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513308","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=513308"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513308\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/513309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=513308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=513308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=513308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}