Simply return there! Open leader Shane Lowry goes nuts with a long, insane double at 11 points.
The par-4 11th hole at Royal Troon, known as “The Railway,” has a reputation for being among the most challenging on the Open Championship schedule. Now Shane Lowry can vouch for it. Perhaps appropriately, Lowry’s second round got off to a disastrous start at No. 11 on Friday. A lengthy and bizarre sequence that included a cameraman, a pulled shot into the gorse, a provisional that was subsequently ruled invalid, and finally a double bogey caused Lowry to lose his two-shot lead. This is how it all transpired: Although it looked like Lowry had a good chance to force his second shot the 177 yards to the hole, his shot created a big clump of grass and a ball that went out low and left. Lowry’s tee ball struck the right fescue.
I could almost see you with the f—ing camera up as I was leaving the ball! To the cameraman, Lowry said. “Just return there! For heaven’s sake! In an interview, Lowry said, “I did a nice lie in the rough.” I kind of lost my line of thought when I became a little sidetracked on the right shortly before the shot. You’re so scared to go there that I grabbed the club and turned left instead. Lowry reloaded after realizing his ball was probably lost and called a provisional. His fourth shot of the round went up onto the green and around twenty feet beyond the hole. But shortly after, a bystander discovered Lowry’s original ball amid the bristly material. “He would haveR&A rules official Charlie Maran stated, “You can declare a ball lost, but when it’s actually found, it’s the ball in play.” “The temporary ball he played now turns out to be the incorrect ball. He must therefore decide what to do with his original ball. At last, more than twenty minutes after making his first shot, Lowry sank and made his fourth. Lowry reached the green from around 70 yards, stopping just short of it. Then, in an attempt at a roundabout double, he got up and down, dropping back to 5 under and tying Daniel Brown. “I had the impression that during the entire 20-minute process… I thought I was really collected and at ease, and I genuinely believed that I
