Bad luck, a sour taste on the tongue: the squally rain relentlessly splattered down on Shane Lowry as he appraised his final shots of the Honda Classic at PGA National in Palm Beach, Florida, in a dramatic finale to the tournament where he ultimately came up short.
While Daniel Berger had started out as a red-hot favourite, the local Floridian endured a nightmare final round start – dropping four shots inside his opening six holes – that brought his pursuers into the picture and Lowry’s bogey-free round enabled him to leapfrog his way up the leaderboard.
But, just not enough.
Instead, it was Austria’s Sepp Straka – who shot a final round 66 for 270, 10-under-par – w …
- February 28, 2022
