{"id":1055205,"date":"2026-06-28T08:54:14","date_gmt":"2026-06-28T08:54:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1055205\/"},"modified":"2026-06-28T08:54:14","modified_gmt":"2026-06-28T08:54:14","slug":"shane-lowry-makes-impressive-move-on-day-three-at-travelers-championship-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1055205\/","title":{"rendered":"Shane Lowry makes impressive move on day three at Travelers Championship \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"

Shane Lowry<\/a> has continued his improvement as the Travelers Championship has progressed after a six-under-par 64 to follow up rounds of 68 and 65 left him in the top 5 heading into Sunday at the PGA Tour Signature Event.<\/p>\n

It was a flawless ball-striking day for the Irishman at TPC River Highlands as he hit 13 out of 14 fairways and 16 out of 18 greens en route to a bogey-free round which included six birdies to reach 13-under-par for the tournament.<\/p>\n

Lowry has former caddie Dermot Byrne on the bag<\/a> this week after splitting with Darren Reynolds, who has been his caddie since 2023. Byrne caddied for Lowry for the first 10 years of his career.<\/p>\n

\u201cMyself and Darren finished last week. I had a great chat with him on Saturday about it,\u201d Lowry said on Sky Sports.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe had a great three-and-a-half years together, and we\u2019re still good friends, and he was really good to me. We experienced some great things.<\/p>\n

\u201cI just felt like I needed a bit of a change on the course.\u00a0I felt like the five-hour rounds were quite unenjoyable at times, and I needed a bit of a change-up.<\/p>\n

\u201cDermot was caddying last week for a guy called James Nicholas, who qualified for the US Open, and it was easy to ask him to do this week, because it\u2019s an easy drive up the road for him.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo it\u2019s been nice to have him on the bag, and he\u2019s kind of changed it up a little bit and given me a bit of confidence.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"ShaneShane Lowry with caddie Dermot Byrne at TPC River Highlands. Photograph: Jordan Bank\/Getty <\/p>\n

The move appears to have paid off immediately, with Lowry in position for his first top 10 since early March, although he will need to continue his form into the final day, which has sometimes caused him problems this season so far.<\/p>\n

Lowry may need the round of his year if he is to win tomorrow as he is seven shots off leader Viktor Hovland on 20 under. World number one Scottie Scheffler is a shot further back on 19 under, looking for his first PGA Tour victory since January.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Tom McKibbin is in the top 10 in the DP World Tour\u2019s Italian Open after a third round of 68 made it three rounds in the 60s so far in Turin. At 10 under, the Holywood man is seven shots off the lead of Eugenio Chacarra on 17 under, with Matt Wallace and Joaquin Niemann two back on 15 under.<\/p>\n

In the LPGA Tour Major, the Women\u2019s PGA Championship, Leona Maguire is tied 49th after a third round of 73 at Hazeltine and is one over for the tournament. South Korean golfer Haeran Ryu leads by a shot on 11 under from Canada\u2019s Brooke Henderson. World number one Nelly Korda is on seven under.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Shane Lowry has continued his improvement as the Travelers Championship has progressed after a six-under-par 64 to follow…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1055206,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[4106],"tags":[41160,2826,107930,87764,4298,7929,79,176064,16,15],"class_list":["post-1055205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-dp-world-tour","tag-golf","tag-leona-maguire","tag-lpga-tour","tag-pga-tour","tag-shane-lowry","tag-sports","tag-tom-mckibbin","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1055205","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1055205"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1055205\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1055206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1055205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1055205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1055205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}