“When I’m Old & Probably Bald” … Lowry Forsees The Days Reliving Ryder Cup Memories With Kids & Grandkids.

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Shane Lowry has already created enough memories in his golfing career to ensure Dublin’s famed Croke Park will be overflowing.

Top of this career list must be winning the 2019 Open Championship on home soil while there’s the overwhelming joy across the length-and-breath of Ireland when he sensationally captured the 2009 Irish Open as an amateur, a victory that didn’t earn him a cent but it afforded Lowry the wealth of a two-year DP World Tour exemption.

Three years later he captured a first event as a professional in Portugal. There was silencing a double a double Masters winner to win on US soil with success at the 2015 WGC – Bridgestone Invitational while three years ago he captured the BMW PGA Championship at Tour HQ.

Shane Lowry admires all former winners of the Open Championship – Image Getty

In team competition, Lowry made his Ryder Cup debut in 2021 under captain and fellow Irishman Padraig Harrington before the overwhelming joy in being a member of Luke Donald’s 2023 Rome winning side.

Then just a few weeks ago Lowry sensationally holed the Bethpage Park winning putt that ensured the Ryder Cup would remain in Europe’s hands, and doing so Lowry joined the greats of Irish golf who have holed the winning a first in Christy O’Connor in 1957, Eamon Darcy in 1987 and others including the likes of Phillip Walton (1995), Paul McGinley (2002) and Graeme McDowell (2010).

And this week’s DP World Tour Championship is fostering so many memories from Europe’s historic victory less that two months ago with nine of the dozen players who represented Europe competing this week in Dubai, and six of those are inside the top-10 heading to the weekend rounds of the season-ending Rolex Series event .. see image hereunder

Six of the leading seven appearing in this DPWT image were members of this year’s victorious European Ryder Cup side.

And if add the 11th placed Tyrrell Hatton,  Swede Ludwig Aberg T13th and Dane Rasmus Hogjarrd sharing 17th that’s nine of Europe’s 2025 winning team inside the top-20.

Little wonder Lowry and his victorious team-mates present in Dubai are smiling in the first big event since those celebrations in the Big Apple City.

“Yeah, I was looking at the scoreboard out there at one stage and it was Tommy, Rosey and myself up there along with Nicolai and a couple of others,” said Lowry speaking with reporters.

“Rory is obviously there, Bob had a good score today and everyone is playing decently. I think it is nice for the tour and the tournament and I think it bodes well for the weekend, when it would be nice if we could battle it out over the final two rounds”,

He was asked seeing so many familiar friends and colleagues what it brought to his own game.

“It’s the positivity it brings,” Lowry said in reply.

“Honestly, everywhere I’ve gone since the Ryder Cup has said it to me. It reaches a whole different level of audience that golf only reaches once every two years.

“Ludvig and I had a great crowd yesterday morning in the first group. People probably came out to watch us just because of the Ryder Cup. It’s just great we are here and great we are all playing well.”

So what about the memories he will long cherish?

“I’m not going to say I’ll live off it for a long time, but it is certainly something that I’ll be able to sitdown when I’m old and probably bald and be able to talk to my kids and hopefully my grandkids about”, L0wry said smiling broadly.

“Honestly, I count myself very lucky to achieve what I did in September. It was a very good moment for me personally and obviously it was amazing for the team and I couldn’t have done it without my other 11 team-mates. But for me to experience that personally is something I’ll remember forever.”

Irish golf can also count itself lucky.  The DP World Tour can count itself lucky and the European Ryder Cup team can count itself doubly lucky.

 



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