‘You just have to keep knocking on the door' – Shane Lowry patiently waiting ‘for good days to come'
'Look, I'll be completely honest with you,' said Lowry, who has broken 70 just twice in 28 rounds at Quail Hollow. 'I wish we were at a venue that suits my game a little bit better.
'But I do feel like if I play my best golf, I can contend, but it'll be hard, and I will have to play my best golf this week. But you know, that's great, because I am actually playing some of my best golf around now.
'So I'll give it a run and see what happens. And if it's not this week, sure, I'll dust myself off and I get ready for Memorial, and if it's not that week, I'll just keep going.'
Lowry's last individual win came in the 2022 BMW PGA, and while he's come up just short in some of the game's biggest events since then, his competitive spirit is intact.
'Look, Sunday hurt a bit,' said Lowry, whose runner-up finish in Philadelphia was his second this year.
'I felt like I probably could have won that tournament. I should have won that tournament. And it's hard to win out here. So when you give yourself chances like that, it stings.
'I was conscious coming into a big week like this, where you're not feeling great about yourself because of that. So it was actually nice that it was a forced day off on Monday with the weather.
'So I don't feel anything but positive energy coming from last week, and hopefully I can get out tomorrow morning early and get after it.'
Quail Hollow is playing so long, Lowry knows he needs an inspired performance. 'I have no record around here at all,' he said.
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'But I've taken a little bit of a dive into the stats on why that is, and it's nothing to do with my tee-to-green play. It's more the rest of it.
'It suits a certain type of player. So I'm going to have to play my best even to get in or around the lead on the weekend.
'But thankfully, my best golf has come out over the last while, and I feel like I'm hitting the ball well, happy with what I'm doing in and around the greens, so you never know.'
Lowry insists he is confident that a victory is close.
'You just have to keep knocking on the door,' he said. 'And eventually, the next chance I get, I'm just gonna try and burst through it.
'Sometimes you feel like golf keeps kicking you and kicking you, but you have to be patient, and you have to wait for the good days to come.
'Hopefully there's a great day ahead of me at some stage in the next to near future.'
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