Lowry devastated as dream shattered after | Golf News

Shane Lowry admitted that failing to clinch the Cognizant Classic in entrance of his watching daughter was “hard to take” after a devastating late collapse value him the title. Nico Echavarria claimed his third PGA Tour victory in under three years as Lowry suffered a catastrophic meltdown.

The Ryder Cup stalwart stood at the sixteenth gap on the PGA National Champion Course in Palm Beach, holding a two-shot lead over the sector — before the whole lot fell aside. For the first time in his PGA Tour profession, Lowry carded back-to-back bogeys, successfully ending his problem.

While he boasts a major championship following his triumph at the 2019 Open Championship at Royal Portrush, Lowry’s most current PGA Tour victory got here at the 2024 Zurich Classic. When requested Sunday whether or not he had to put it behind him and press ahead, a visibly shattered Lowry said: “Yeah, you have no choice, do you. I have a tee time next Thursday in Bay Hill, and I have no choice but to move on.

“The hardest factor about today is I’ve never received in entrance of my four-year-old, and she was there ready for me. Yeah, I only wished it for her today. I did not need it for… I do not care about anything.

“I wanted it so bad. Just to see her little ginger hair running down the 18th green would have been the most special thing in the world. I thought I had it. I thought I was going to win.”

He continued: “I didn’t get ahead of myself, but I felt so comfortable out there, and then yeah, tried to get a lot out of my 3-iron on 16 and did the only thing I couldn’t really do.”

Lowry discovered it troublesome to conceal his disappointment during his post-round interview. Referencing a comparable collapse at the Dubai Invitational, he acknowledged: “I’m obviously extremely disappointed. I had the tournament in my hands, and I threw it away. What more can I say? That’s twice this year now so far. I’m getting good at it.

“Yeah, look, what can I say? I performed unbelievable all day, and one unhealthy shot on 16 utterly threw me for the last three holes. It’s never occurred to me before.

“I said to Darren, how do I feel like this now when I went through what I did last September in Bethpage and got through that fine. I just felt like it was weird out there; I just really- yeah, just couldn’t feel the club face the last three holes then after my tee shot on 16. It was strange.

“What can I say? It’s very disappointing. Geez, this goes to be laborious to take. Dubai was laborious at the start of the yr, but this goes to be fairly laborious.”

Lowry could have another alternative to declare victory when he begins play at the Arnold Palmer Invitational in Orlando next week.