Shane Lowry explains looper break up
Shane Lowry and caddie Brian “Bo” Martin throughout Lowry’s victory on the 2019 Open Championship.
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Shane Lowry says he’s “not precisely a caddie-firer or something.”
However the Irishman additionally mentioned Sunday a foul begin to the 12 months had gotten to him, and that was his rationalization for the separation between him and longtime looper Brian “Bo” Martin. The 2019 Open Championship-winning duo break up on the finish of January, and Lowry now has Darren Reynolds on his bag.
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“Yeah, form of — like on the time, it form of got here out of nowhere,” Lowry mentioned after his play on the Gamers Championship. “We began within the Center East, and I had a foul couple of weeks, and we simply form of — we had a chat and issues weren’t going — once I sit down and have a look at it issues that weren’t going in addition to I most likely thought.
“It obtained to me a bit bit, and I simply wanted some contemporary — I knew, when it occurred, I had nobody in thoughts, nobody lined up, so I didn’t know what to do.”
In accordance with the Unbiased, the connection had been souring.
The web site mentioned that the Lowry was seen ranting at Martin throughout the third spherical of final 12 months’s Masters over a misclubbing, and sources instructed the location that Lowry’s begin to this 12 months confirmed that the duo had misplaced its “mojo.” Lowry had opened 2023 with a tie for twenty eighth on the DP World Tour’s Abu Dhabi HSBC Championship — he was tied for the lead going into the ultimate spherical — and he missed the lower the subsequent week on the Hero Dubai Desert Basic, additionally a DP World Tour occasion.
Quickly after, they have been finished. Martin had carried for Lowry since 2018, a run that noticed them win 3 times — the 2019 Open at Royal Portrush, the 2019 Abu Dhabi HSBC Championship and final 12 months’s BMW PGA Championship. He had changed Dermot Byrne, who had been Lowry’s caddie for 9 years.
“I’ve had two caddies my entire profession, and I’ve been on Tour 14 years,” Lowry mentioned. “I’m not precisely a caddie-firer or something. That is my third caddie.”
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Two weeks after Dubai, Lowry performed the PGA Tour’s Waste Administration Open, and Reynolds was aboard. Lowry mentioned he had been caddying for professional Alex Levy.
“I’ve recognized Darren for years,” Lowry mentioned. “He had simply began with Alex Levy on the European Tour. That’s virtually why I didn’t wish to ask him, as a result of I knew he simply obtained a brand new job and I didn’t wish to take him away after which it not work out for us. However, frankly, he was one of many few choices I had, and we simply had a chat. He caddied for me throughout Covid for just a few weeks when Bo couldn’t, and yeah, it’s been going fairly good.”
The Gamers marked the pair’s fifth occasion collectively, over 5 weeks. They missed the lower on the WM, tied for 14th on the Genesis Invitational, tied for fifth on the Honda Basic, completed 67th on the Arnold Palmer Invitational, and tied for thirty fifth on the Gamers.
Up subsequent for Lowry is the WGC-Match Play in two weeks, adopted by the Masters two weeks after that.
“That week in Phoenix was a bit bizarre for me, and I felt a bit totally different,” Lowry mentioned. “However fortunately we went to L.A. and we had an honest outcome, after which we went and contended on the Honda. Bay Hill didn’t go to play, however Bay Hill shouldn’t be a spot I sometimes go, after which however for the primary spherical right here, we’ve had an honest week this week, so it’s gone nicely to this point.”
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