Shane Lowry on Friday on the sixteenth gap at Congaree Golf Club.
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Shane Lowry, the day after his ordeal by means of southeastern South Carolina, could have summed it up greatest.
“It was good fun, and there’s always something,” he mentioned on Golf Channel on Friday. “It’s never, never a dull moment.”
Indeed. There was an accident.
Then a guidelines state of affairs.
Then a procuring journey.
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Then a viral second.
All throughout a event, the CJ Cup. To lay all of it out, we’ll go chronologically.
Noonish ET Thursday, ninth gap, Congaree Golf Club, Ridgeland, South Carolina: We start right here, through the first spherical, after Lowry hit his strategy into the par-4. The accident quickly adopted. He tells the story properly.
“So I was pulling my putter out of the bag and I pulled it out quite quick, and as it came out, it fell,” Lowry retold on Friday. “As it fell, I attempted to love flick it up with my foot, however like form of not too like aggressive or something, simply form of tried, as a result of the shaft was like this and tried to flick it up with my foot, and I caught it like proper the place the graphite meets the metal on these shafts and it simply snapped in half.
“I was like, yeah. I had to like pick Matt Fitzpatrick off the ground from laughing. Yeah, it was interesting. I didn’t know what was going to happen, I didn’t know if I was going to be able to use it again. It was absolutely accidental; there was no anger or anything. It was like very, very strange. It was disappointing because I like that putter; that’s the one I won with a few weeks ago, and I kind of was starting to like it.”
Noonish-1 p.m.-ish, ninth and tenth holes, Congaree Golf Club, Ridgeland, South Carolina: Lowry putted with his wedge. On 9, he considerably extremely rolled in a 7-footer for par. On 10, a 5-footer.
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1 p.m.-ish, eleventh inexperienced, Congaree Golf Club, Ridgeland, South Carolina: Here we crack open the rule guide, the place Model Local Rule G-9 states: “If a player’s club is ‘broken or significantly damaged’ during the round by the player or caddie, except in cases of abuse, the player may replace the club with any club under Rule 4.1b(4).”
Lowry’s putter was damaged and considerably broken by Lowry. It wasn’t a case of abuse.
He changed it, with an help to his agent.
And an unknown Congaree member.
“I used my lob wedge for two holes, and then I used — my agent [Brian Moran] went to the member’s bag storage and just pulled a Scottie Cameron putter from there and I used that for the back nine,” Lowry mentioned. “And like my first putt was on the 11th green, and I was like I have no idea what’s going to happen here. It was a strange hour or so. Yeah, it was interesting.”
A reporter requested: “Was it daunting in any way to stand on 11 yesterday with a new putter on these greens?”
“Yeah, no, it came off very quick as well, so it was one of those where I was scared to hit it, but it did OK,” Lowry mentioned. “I holed a couple of putts, but I missed a few coming in yesterday. I hit the ball great coming in yesterday, but I missed a few. There’s always something.”
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Does the member know that their putter was utilized by the 2019 Open Championship winner?
“I actually don’t know, I have no idea,” Lowry mentioned. “We put it back anyway.”
3 p.m.-ish, Congaree Golf Club, Ridgeland, South Carolina: Lowry signed for his three-under 68 — which included two birdies with the brand new putter — and ideas turned to the three days forward. He might play with a putter. Or he might play with his, or a minimum of a alternative of the mannequin. But the tools vehicles have been gone.
Odyssey was contacted.
They might get him a White Hot OG 2-Ball putter with a graphite shaft, with a Traxion Pistol GT putter grip. That day, too.
He must drive to the PGA Tour Superstore, in Bluffton, South Carolina.
That’s a 34-mile, 43-minute drive (in accordance with Google) south. The retailer closed at 8.
With $10.5 mil up for grabs, that was nothing.
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“My shopping experience was great down at Bluffton,” Lowry instructed Golf Channel. “I had to get in the car and drive. I drove an hour down there yesterday evening.”
Late afternoon Thursday, PGA Tour Superstore, Bluffton, South Carolina: Lowry purchased — sure, purchased; he posted the receipt to his social media channels — his new putter, together with one other one, you realize, since he was there and all.
On social media, at 4:59 p.m., Lowry shared a pic of him in entrance of the shop, with each putters raised.
He posted a video, too. He was on the money register, in the identical golf garments — a blue hat, a blue shirt, grey pants and white footwear, with all the sponsor markings — he had worn at Congaree.
“Having a major champion … doesn’t suck,” the cashier mentioned within the video as he rung Lowry up.
As of Friday night time, the video had over 230,000 views.
After his spherical on Friday, Golf Channel’s Todd Lewis requested him this:
“Give me your impression of the staff there as a major champion walking into the store looking for a putter.”
“I think they knew I was coming because — but they told them my caddie [Brian Martin] was coming, but I wanted to go down myself and … they were really nice and they couldn’t have been any more helpful, and I think the customers were a bit — because I went straight from the course, so I was in my golf gear,” Lowry mentioned. “The clients have been a bit like, you realize, a few double-takes right here and there. It was positive.
“It was good fun and there’s always something. It’s never, never a dull moment.”
Friday, Congaree Golf Club, Ridgeland, South Carolina: In the meantime, Odyssey shipped Lowry extra putters, and by the point he teed off at 12:25 p.m. on Friday, he had a type of within the bag.
The PGA Tour Superstore buy stayed in his locker.
From there, Lowry shot a four-67, and he’ll begin Saturday’s third spherical 4 photographs out of the lead.
Whew.
“Look, it was one of those, it was kind of a bit of a freak thing,” he mentioned. “It is what it is. Thankfully, I did OK with the other putter and I did OK today as well.”
