AKRON, Ohio – In the aftermath of letting the lead in the 116th U.S. Open slip away over the final holes at Oakmont, Shane Lowry had a hug with coach Neil Manchip and a good cry in the locker room. The days that followed were equally tough.
“Any time I was on my own, I had to keep myself busy,” said Lowry, who tied for second, three strokes behind Dustin Johnson, “because I was thinking, What if I had done this? or If this would have happened, and I was driving myself mad.”
When he finished the round, Lowry told the press that the confusion caused by Johnson rules imbroglio over whether he caused his golf ball to move on the fifth green, which led to an eventual one-stroke penalty, didn’t affect him at all.