Shane Lowry is an Irish professional golfer who plays on the European Tour and the PGA Tour. His notable achievements include winning the 2019 Open Championship, the Irish Open as an amateur in 2009, and the 2015 WGC-Bridgestone Invitational.
Shane Lowry: Bio| Nickname| How old is| Open championship
Bio:
Born in the Midlands Regional Hospital, Mullingar, County Westmeath, Republic of Ireland, Lowry grew up in Clara, County Offaly. He is the son of Brendan Lowry, who won the 1982 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final with Offaly.
Shane Lowry maintained his links with Offaly as his golfing career advanced, saying in 2021: “But any time I get the chance to go to O’Connor Park and watch Offaly play, I do and I am the first to give out if they lose and I am sitting in the stand.”
Nickname:
But Andrew ‘Beef’ Johnston has rapidly ascended the ‘Balls.ie List Of Our Favourite Golfers’ with a fantastic interview after winning the Spanish Open.
Johnston is from Barnet in England, and his reaction to holding off the challenge of Sergio Garcia at the tournament the Spaniard hosted was gloriously natural.
‘Beef’ is also probably the best nickname on the tour. Johnston’s success is also indicative of the changing face of golf.
How old is:
35 years
2 April 1987
The game that was once the bastion of the wealthy American male is becoming increasingly dominated by Europe, with back-to-back Ryder Cup victories for Europe preceding Danny Willett’s victory at Augusta.
Johnston won the tournament despite shooting +1 for the tournament, finishing a shot ahead of Holland’s Joost Luiten and two strokes ahead of Garcia.
Open Championship:
The oldest and most prestigious event in the sport returned to the fabled links on the coast of Northern Ireland for the first time since 1951, a year which also yielded a first-time winner in Max Faulkner.
That disastrous opening hole set the tone for a 79 and left him facing an uphill battle just to be around for the weekend, and it was a battle in which he came agonisingly close to winning as he shaved 14 shots off his first-round score.
Unfortunately, McIlroy was one shy of surviving the cut, but he gave the sell-out crowd their money’s worth on day two as he defied the cool and damp conditions to card seven birdies and just one bogey which ultimately cost him the chance to play the weekend.
Born: 2 April 1987 (age 35 years), Clara, Ireland
