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Shane Lowry – With his 2019 Abu Dhabi HSBC Championship Victory  Captured a fourth European Tour win in his 214th appearance It is Lowry’s first win in his fifth appearance at this event and the first by an Irishman. His best previous finish was fourth in 2010. Moves to first in the 2019 Race to Dubai Rankings presented by Rolex with 1,165 points Could jump as high as 40th in the Official World Golf Ranking, up from 75th Will qualify (Top-50 World Rankings/Top 20 Race to Dubai) for ...

Through pure resilience and belief, Shane Lowry has won his first European Tour title in four years by lifting the HSBC Championship in Abu Dhabi. The Clara man entered the final day with a three-shot lead over Richard Sterne and birdied the first to get his final round off to the best possible start. But Sterne wasn’t for shifting with the plucky South African matching Lowry’s birdie before playing his front nine in five-under, six shots better than Lowry. Golf is a funny game however ...

New European Ryder Cup Captain, Padraig Harrington along with Michael D. Higgins, and the President of Ireland were among the first to congratulate Shane Lowry who ended a more than three-year victory drought to brilliantly capture the Abu Dhabi HSBC Championship. Lowry led from start-to-finish to secure a fourth European Tour victory in birding the final hole in a closing round of 71 in windy conditions and win by a stroke at 18-under par from South African Richard Sterne (69). Lowry’s victory, ...

Shane Lowry’s return to the European Tour is headed for the spectacular reward of all four Majors this new year should he capture the Abu Dhabi HSBC Championship. Lowry will take a three-shot lead into Saturday’s final round after producing a gutsy third day 67 to brilliantly move to 17-under par in the UAE capital. The Offlay golfer seized seven birdies, including three on the four par-3s, to remarkably be eight-under alone on the par-3s for the three days. Lowry has piled on 21 birdies over ...

Shane Lowry dug deep to regroup and lead by one shot heading to the closing two rounds of the Abu Dhabi HSBC Championship. Lowry produced a second day two-under par 70 for a 12-under par tally on the National course in the UAE capital. The Offlay golfer’s game was not as pretty or razor-sharp as his career-equalling opening day low of 62 but at the end of the second day of his first event of the New Year Lowry still has his 31-year old nose in front. Lowry bogeyed his second and third holes but ...

Rory McIlroy will break PGA Tour new ground for a second event running with confirmation he will contest next week’s Farmers Insurance Open at Torrey Pines in California. McIlroy will join Tiger Woods in the Euro 6.23m event again being held on the clifftop course overlooking the Pacific Ocean. McIlroy kick-started his 2019 season a fortnight ago teeing-up also for a first occasion in his career at the Sentry Tournament of Champions. And now the 29-year old has confirmed for the Farmers Insurance ...

New European Ryder Cup Captain Padraig Harrington has been in the job less than a day and already he is looking to stamp his mark on the 2020 showdown by reducing his number of ‘wildcard’ picks. Harrington, and as widely predicted, was handed the Whistling Straits captaincy reins earlier this week to remarkably become the third Irishman in the four Ryder Cups to lead Europe. And if Harrington gets his way, and the Dubliner will, he will not be taking four ‘wildcard’ picks to the shores of ...