Heading into the Ryder Cup, Lowry found himself in a lot of the team selection discourse. He has not won an event since the 2022 BMW PGA, at Wentworth.
, the No Laying Up team were joined by Shane Ryan to discuss match-ups, pairings and predictions for top performers, as well as guys that might suffer.Viktor Hovland was tipped as a potential Most Valuable Player [MVP] on the European side, with Team USA star Scottie Scheffler a shout for the other side. Host Chris Solomon said he was 'a little worried' by the four-man pod of Shane Lowry, Sepp Straka, Justin Rose and Bob MacIntyre.
"They treat Lowry like a 10 Ryder Cup veteran," said Ryan, before adding,"He went 1 and 2 in the one time that he played... Shane Lowry was the one name I was going to come up with it [for potential Least Valuable Player]."Later in the show, Ryan was impressing upon the match-play credentials of Team USA star Patrick Cantlay and harked back to his singles game against Lowry, in the last Ryder Cup.
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