Shane Lowry will likely return home, and what will likely be anxious near month-long wait after failing to qualify for next week’s ultra-lucrative PGA Tour Play-Off Series in Memphis.
There will be no Beale Street celebrations for Lowry after posting a closing level par 70 for an eventual three-under-par tally for a top-50 finish in the Wyndham Championship in Greensboro, North Carolina.
It was a disappointing last ‘regular’ season event for the Clara golfer who was projected to end his 2022/23 season at No. 78 on the money-list standings, and eight places shy in qualifying for Thursday’s starting elite FedEx Championship on the TPC Southwind course in the home of the ‘Delta Blues’.
Lowry never really got going on the host Sedgefield course from his frusrating opening 68, then being involved in a very lenghty day two rules incident with playing partners Adam Scott and Justin Thomas to a pair of no frills weekend scores of two 70s. Indeed, he capped his round at the par-5 15th for all four days, posting birdies on day one and two and then eagled the hole on ‘moving day’ before day four when he landed his 226-yard second shot to just five-and-a-half feet for a second straigh score of ‘3’. It put Lowry six-under on the 17th ranked hardest hole on the course.
But alas, not enough for the current World No. 30,
It is also a first occasion since the 2017/18 season Lowry, who has earned more than $17m in prize-money in his PGA Tour career, has not qualified among the leading 70 on the money list for the Play-Offs.
Lowry is now staring at five weeks off before the September 7th commencing Horizon Irish Open at the K. Club, and three days after European Team captain Luke Donald announces his full 12-man Rome side.
As such, Lowry could be tempted to travel to Switzerland the week prior and tee-up in the Omega European Masters.
Whatever, it does seem Lowry is facing a ‘Am, I going picked or not?’ 29 days until Donald goes public with his 12-man Rome side.
