Lowry assesses his PGA Championship chances after | Golf News

Shane Lowry shouldn’t be brimming with confidence as he gears up to compete for his second main title this week at the PGA Championship at Quail Hollow. The 38-year-old from County Offaly is still reeling from a disappointing end at the Truist Championship, where he squandered a golden alternative to secure his first solo victory in a common PGA Tour occasion.

Lowry was main during the back 9 at Philadelphia Cricket Club on Sunday, but two late bogeys allowed Sepp Straka to swoop in and declare the win.

Now, he should rapidly shake off that disappointment and refocus his energies on the second main of the season, which kicks off in North Carolina on Thursday. However, Quail Hollow has not been form to the 2019 Open champion in the previous.

This might be Lowry’s seventh time competing at Quail Hollow, where his observe report contains two missed cuts and a best end of tied-Thirty fourth. When the PGA Championship was final held in Charlotte in 2017, he completed in a tie for forty eighth place.

Despite a sturdy begin to the season, marked by second-place finishes at the Truist and the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am, Lowry was much less than optimistic about his chances of taking home the Wanamaker Trophy.

“I have no record around here at all. You know, I’ve not played well [here],” he instructed the Irish Examiner. “But I’ve taken a little bit of a dive into the stats on why that is, and it’s nothing to do with my tee-to-green play. It’s more the rest of it.

“I really feel like my recreation might be in higher form, particularly that half of it, than it is ever been coming into this time of 12 months. So I’ll attempt and look at the positives and work from there.”

Acknowledging the disadvantage presented by recent weather conditions, Lowry continued: “There’s been a lot of rain. It makes it even longer. It’s going to be a good problem. It fits a sure kind of participant.

“Look, I’ll be completely honest with you. I wish we were at a venue to suit my game a little bit better but I do feel like if I play my best golf, I can contend.”

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“I’ll give it a run see what happens. And you know, if it’s not this week, I’ll dust myself off and I get ready for Memorial, and it’s not that week, I’ll just keep going like I’ll always try hard and if I work harder then eventually, something good will happen.”

Despite not clinching a win in over two years on any tour (excluding his victory with McIlroy at final 12 months’s Zurich Classic), Sunday’s close call wasn’t all doom and gloom for Lowry. His current consistency has propelled him into the highest 10 of the Official World Golf Ranking for the first time.