Shane Lowry is one of the top 40 players in the world according to the most recent Official World Golf Ranking, and while pros are so much better than amateurs, golf is hard and sometimes they hit bad shots.
Lowry had a hole-in-one at the Masters this year, but during the second round of the PGA Championship on Friday, he looked mortal as he hit a borderline shank on a par 3.
Lowry — who has a pair of top-10 finishes this season, including a second-place showing at the Cognizant Classic in the Palm Beaches — fired a 68 in Thursday’s opening round at Aronimink and appeared to be in good position heading into the weekend, but this shot dropped him down the leaderboard. The star wound up taking a double-bogey on the short hole and had fallen to 2 over for the tournament as of 11 a.m. ET, which is right on the projected cutline.
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Interestingly enough, Lowry dropped a shot on the other two par 3 holes on Thursday, the only blemishes he had on his first-round card.
“You’re standing on the 8th tee and at the time the wind was like, who knows how far it was playing. But it was just a 7-wood and it was just kind of hit it and hopefully it gets around the green. Because you didn’t want to miss it left. Long left was pretty much dead. I hit it in a good spot. I hit an average bunker shot and I missed a putt,” Lowry said on Thursday. “But and then, you know, I just pulled my tee shot into 14. And then 17 I hit a lovely 7-wood in there.
“But yeah, the par-3s are incredibly difficult. They’re long around here.”
This article originally appeared on Golfweek: Watch: Shane Lowry hits ‘shank’ at PGA Championship 2026
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