Shane Lowry ‘misses the beer’ to keep FedEx Cup playoffs in tact

Shane Lowry entered this week outdoors the highest 70 wanted to qualify for the FedEx Cup playoffs, which begins subsequent week in Memphis, Tennessee. That meant he was going to want to complete inside the highest 23 this week on the Wyndham Championship in Greensboro, N.C.

After posting a stable opening spherical Thursday, he struggled for a lot of the day Friday. On the par-5 fifteenth although, he caught a large break.

The Irishman’s method shot went wayward into the stands. By some means, the ball went from the third row again into play, throughout the inexperienced and settled onto the perimeter for a prolonged eagle putt. He would go on to birdie the outlet.

The Golf Channel announcers, upon watching the replay, put it into context saying “We execs discuss ‘we by no means get a break.’ This was off the third row, missed the beer, onto the inexperienced.”

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Curiously, previous to the event, Lowry had detailed how he believed he had earned a little bit of luck.

“I really feel like I’ve been in conditions like this fairly a bit over the past variety of years,” he mentioned.

“Like I miss out on the Tour Championship by one spot final yr, by two pictures in 2019. I keep in mind taking part in right here one yr, I’d been informed I wanted a top-10 to get to the Playoffs, I completed seventh and I missed out by one level.”

“So I really feel just like the playoffs almost owes me one at this stage.”

Perhaps the luck of the Irish lastly got here by way of for the previous Open champion.

Lowry completed the day 3-under par, only one shot above the minimize line. He at the moment sits T42 with work left to do if he needs to make it Memphis.