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Shane Lowry “can’t wait” to play at Royal County Down in the Irish Open next week after a very pleasing tied-for-sixth-place finish at BMW PGA Championship at Wentworth.
Three bogey-free rounds saw the Offaly man finish level with Tommy Fleetwood on 11-under par, both ending up 10 shots off runaway winner Byeong Hun An.
The 2009 Irish Open winner says he wants to be in contention next weekend as well.
“I’m really excited about next week now,” he told RTÉ Sport.
“It’s the Irish Open and it’s massive for me. I just can’t wait to get up there. I’m really excited about getting up there and hopefully contending next weekend as well.”
Lowry, 28, finished second at the BMW PGA last year and admitted he has a fondness for the course.
"It’s nice to be back up at the top of the leaderboard and giving myself half a chance"
“It was very pleasing for me to go out and do that on such a tough golf course," he said.
"Obviously, I quite like the place and if I could play 25 tournaments a year on this golf course I would.
"It’s nice to be back up at the top of the leaderboard and giving myself half a chance.
“The leader ran away with it today but going out there this morning I was thinking if I could shoot seven under that I had a chance of winning.
“I played the golf to do that, I just didn’t hole the putts early on...but that’s the way it is, three birdies, no bogeys again, so it was nice.
“It’s always nice [to have a bogey-free round]. The way I play golf I normally make a lot of birdies and throw in a couple of bogeys during the round but it was nice.
“I was in control, my short game was on fire this week, as good as it’s been in a long time, got up and down when I was in trouble. I put myself in a few tricky spots and managed to save pars.”
