MOSEL, Wis. – Just two days removed from arguably his biggest victory in golf, Ireland’s Shane Lowry is entertaining questions about whether he intends to defend his title at the WGC-Bridgestone Invitational next year.
On Sunday, Lowry, 28, won his third European Tour event – a World Golf Championship, to boot. Forty-eight hours later, the European Tour announced in a news release that it will not sanction the 2016 Bridgestone because of a conflict with the Alstom French Open.
According to sources, the French Open contract with the European Tour precludes the tour from having another sanctioned event played during the same week.