Lowry hopes new clubs give him a lift

Open champion Shane Lowry will have new clubs in his bag for the new PGA Tour season as he looks to make up for a disappointing end to the previous campaign. Lowry scraped into the Fedex Cup play-offs after finishing 123rd on the regular season money list, with only the top 125 qualifying for the Northern Trust.

A missed cut at TPC Boston ended Lowr y’s season but he has opted to contest the first event of the 2020-21 schedule, the Safeway Open in California, ahead of next week’s US Open at Winged Foot.

“Obviously I wouldn’ t be overly pleased with how I did last season, but it was a strange one,” Lowr y said. “I felt like I played OK in part and I felt like I had it going before lockdown and I struggled when we came back out. I rallied a little bit to make it to the play-offs (and) it was disappointing to play the way I did in Boston, but that’s just the way it is.”

Lo wry will head straight from the US Open to the Dubai Duty Free Irish Open at Galgorm Castle in Northern Ireland.

As for his new clubs, Lowry said: “Srixon came out with a new set of irons. They look a little bit different to what I’ve been using, but they perform pretty much the same and I find the irons easy to change.

“I drove the ball pretty poorly over the last while and I do feel like there might be something wrong with the old driver. I used it for a couple of years, maybe it’s gone a little bit.

“I was getting some weird numbers on Track man and stuff, so decided to put a new driver in the bag. I used it the last couple of days and I’ve hit it pretty well, so I’m excited to see what they’re like.”