Shane Lowry speaks to the media following his third round at The Open Championship.”
Uh, first and foremost, uh, how are you feeling after it’s been a funny 24 hours and I believe there’s a virus in the house as well. Yeah, not great. Um, no, I’m not great. I I haven’t eaten today yet. Uh, tried to get a protein drink down me after eight holes and felt like throwing up all over the place. So, yeah, it’s been a tough uh tough day, but I’m not going to make excuses. I played poorly today and I obviously had a bad finish. felt like it grounded out really well. Get to one under for the day after 13 and then just yeah bad bad shot on 14. A little bit of a bad break as well. Just the feeling you had last night going home after the two shot penalty kind of took away the chance of maybe a 65 today could push you into contention. What was that like? Yeah, it was hard. It was hard to take. Um and then you get home late and obviously got to dust yourself off and then wake up at 2:30 cramps in my stomach. Um, and I know we have it in the house like Ivy had it a couple of days ago. Wendy had it yesterday. Me and Iris have it today. So, uh, it’ll be gone by our holidays next week. So, at least at least that’s a plus. I know that. Look, you were you had such expectations for this week. I mean, what what do you feel like right now? I guess cuz Rush has been so good to you. To be honest, I’m good. Um yeah, I wanted to do well so badly today and this week and I’ve put so much into this week that yeah, it’s it’s hard to take. And just finally for me, um when you stood in that first te, you had almost put through your mind what that first t-shot would be like on Thursday. Um it’s a lot, isn’t it, of expectation that’s gone into this week. Yeah, I felt like I dealt with it well though and I felt like I did very well and you know um you could say I scored pretty badly. You know par fives were poor over the first couple of days and I feel like I really could have been there thereabouts but you know um it’s golf um doesn’t always go your way but you just need to kind of keep plugging away and uh like look I’ll go out there tomorrow. The annoying thing for me today is I didn’t get to enjoy today as much as I would have liked. Um, you know, Saturday at the open in your home country, you should enjoy it a lot more than than I did. Um, just because of how I felt. But, uh, I’ll try and get out, you know, hopefully I I get out tomorrow morning and try and enjoy it as best I can, trying to shoot the best score I can then have a couple of weeks off before the playoffs. And then for for me, my my big uh my big mindset for the next few few months is about the RDER Cup and trying to win that. So, um, that’s that’s where all my work is going to go towards over the next while. I think Shane, on the 9th, I saw you sitting on the fairway for about 10 12 minutes. How are you feeling at that stage? Honestly, every bathroom I got, I I went in and I tried to throw up. I couldn’t. Uh, this just like such a bad feeling. And I felt like I dealt with it well though, like, but obviously I think lack of energy towards the end maybe d me in. So, look, I I don’t want to make excuses. It’s, you know, it is what it is. It’s It’s just really bad timing. Obviously, it is a fair excuse, though. When you’re when you’re coming out this morning, I you’re just hoping that something magical might happen. Honestly, I’m just I was hoping to shoot one under. Like, honestly, I was hoping to shoot under bar. I got that today on 13. And I knew if I could 14 was playing hard today. I knew if I could make par there that I could shoot maybe two under or three under. Uh and then uh disaster on 14. And uh yeah, look, it is what it is. Fully fit and looking at the way the weather is today and the way the course is set up, did it look like it? There’s a score out there. Yeah. Yeah. Tough pins, but there’s a score. Like look, you see there’s a few good scores and see Rory’s off to a hot start. Yeah. No, no, there’s this golf course doesn’t play any easier than it is today. You know, firm fairways, the greens are receptive. Um and yeah, if it’s a tournament other than the open, are you playing today? Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. No, I’m not not playing. Yeah. Yeah, definitely playing. Yeah. Cheers. Yeah. the reaction of other players to see. Yeah, look, I’m not too keen to talk on it too much. I think we said enough about last night, but yeah, quite supportive, I would have say, from the other players. But I think they all just feel bad for me that, you know, two shots is is a lot to give up. And um yeah, I don’t really have much else to say. Yeah, thank you. Shane, do you remember in 2016 Oakmont you called two shot penalty on yourself for ball moving on the green? Oakman. Yeah. No, I don’t remember. I have called penalties on myself. And by the way, I No, I’m not going to say anymore. Yeah. No, no, no.
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Ridiculous penalty