Irish golfer received one of Luke Donald’s wildcard picks despite only one top-10 finish before The K Club this year
“I know there was a little bit about that last week and …. I need to be careful here,” Lowry said in his pre-tournament press conference at Wentworth.
“If it shut a few people up, so be it, but I wasn’t trying to do that last week. I wasn’t trying to finish third last week, I was trying to win the tournament. So last week was disappointing for me. “Our group [Robert MacIntyre, Sepp Straka and Justin Rose] was actually pretty good, we didn’t lose that many, but one group had a bad day losing a few.
“If you look at the way the course is set up, Scottie Scheffler is number one tee-to-green in the world. So it should suit him. They have got some of the best players in the world. The United States stormed to a record 19-9 victory at Whistling Straits two years ago, but Lowry is confident a new generation of European players will prove a different proposition in Rome.
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