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Shane Lowry

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Shane Lowry is an Irish professional golfer who plays on the European Tour and the PGA Tour, born on 2 April 1987. He won the Irish Open in 2009 as an amateur, then turned professional and took up European Tour membership. He earned PGA Tour status by winning the 2015 WGC-Bridgestone Invitational and claimed his first and so far only major at the 2019 Open Championship. He won the BMW PGA Championship in 2022 and added a second Irish Open title in 2026 with a record eleven-shot margin. As an amateur he played for the Irish teams that won the European Amateur Team Championship in 2007 and 2008, and he has represented Europe at the Ryder Cup in 2021, 2023 and 2025, holing the decisive putt in the last of those.

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1987 1
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is an Irish professional golfer who plays on the European Tour and the PGA Tour
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    born 2 April 1987
  • Lead, major championships
    He has won one major championship, the 2019 Open Championship.
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    is an Irish professional golfer who plays on the European Tour and the PGA Tour
  • Competed In: The Open Championship, Professional career
    He has won one major championship, the 2019 Open Championship.
  • On The Roster Of: Team Europe (Ryder Cup), Team appearances
    He has represented Europe at the Ryder Cup in 2021, 2023, and 2025; Lowry holed the decisive putt at the latter event.
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