{"id":183761,"date":"2025-06-14T12:39:11","date_gmt":"2025-06-14T12:39:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/183761\/"},"modified":"2025-06-14T12:39:11","modified_gmt":"2025-06-14T12:39:11","slug":"shane-lowry-breaks-golf-rules-in-one-of-the-stupidest-things-hes-ever-done","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/183761\/","title":{"rendered":"Shane Lowry breaks golf rules in one of the stupidest things he’s ever done"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Irishman and compatriot Rory McIlroy were in fits of laughter after the former’s blunderShane Lowry(Image: Getty Images)<\/p>\n

Bemused Shane Lowry<\/a> admits his spinning Oakmont head caused him to make one of the stupidest mistakes of his career.<\/p>\n

The Irishman and his playing partners Rory McIlroy<\/a> and Justin Rose were left in fits of giggles after the bizarre error during round two of the US Open.<\/a><\/p>\n

Beaten and pummelled by the brute course, Lowry walked onto the 14th green to mark his ball for a putt, only he forgot to put down a coin and just picked it up.<\/p>\n

Frozen in shock for a second at his mad moment, he says caddie Darren Reynolds just looked at him before the laughter started amongst the Ryder Cup<\/a> trio and the one-stroke penalty was immediately imposed.<\/p>\n

Lowry said afterwards: \u201cProbably one of the stupidest things I\u2019ve ever done. I picked the ball up, had the ball in my hand, turned around to Darren and he basically said to me: What are you doing? By then maybe my mind was somewhere else.\u201d<\/p>\n

Golf rules state: \u201cIf the player lifts the ball without marking its spot, marks its spot in a wrong way or makes a stroke with a ball-marker left in place, the player gets one penalty stroke.\u201d<\/p>\n

Lowry was smiling about it, but there were grimaces throughout the day as he collapsed out of the event with a whopping score of 17-under over par.<\/p>\n

Asked what had gone wrong, Lowry said: \u201cI don\u2019t know to be honest. I drove it in play a lot Thursday, did what I was supposed to do off the tee and then just didn\u2019t have my game that I\u2019ve had for the last while.<\/p>\n

\u201cThen I really struggled on the greens and the round got away from me out here and that was it.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey let it sort of do what they said it wouldn\u2019t do, but that\u2019s all fine, that\u2019s the US Open.<\/p>\n

Rory McIlroy and Shane Lowry(Image: Getty Images)<\/p>\n

\u201cI just made obviously too many doubles, too many big mistakes and then when I got a couple chances, I didn\u2019t convert them.<\/p>\n

\u201cI didn\u2019t really do much right to be honest, other than I drove the ball as good as I\u2019ve probably driven the ball in a long time. So, yeah, weird couple of days.\u201d<\/p>\n

Lowry\u2019s early exit was on the cards long before his marking mistake and the Ryder Cup star has been joined on the weekend scrapheap by a number of his European colleagues.<\/p>\n

Ludvig Aberg was unable to do enough to stay in the event and is headed home just like Tommy Fleetwood, who fell away late on Friday to finish at nine-over par.<\/p>\n

Rose is also packing up and heading out of Oakmont having combined with Lowry for a combined score of 31-over, whilst Sepp Straka, twice a winner on the PGA Tour this season, misses out on the weekend having finished up at 11-under par.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Irishman and compatriot Rory McIlroy were in fits of laughter after the former’s blunderShane Lowry(Image: Getty Images)…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":183762,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4106],"tags":[2826,7640,4287,4321,79,16,15,16022],"class_list":{"0":"post-183761","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-golf","9":"tag-justin-rose","10":"tag-rory-mcilroy","11":"tag-ryder-cup","12":"tag-sports","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom","15":"tag-us-open-golf"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114681765235593349","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183761","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=183761"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183761\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/183762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}