The virtue of patience, with rounds taking over five-and-a-half hours in difficult scoring conditions, proved to a key attribute in Shane Lowry’s navigation of first round of the 108th US PGA Championship at Aronimink Golf Club, where his head space and his shot execution combined for a two-under-par 68 to jump straight into contention in the season’s second Major.
A closing birdie, hitting a 7-iron to 14 feet, the approach barely clearing the greenside rough and then gently rolling down the slope, put the icing on the cake of a round where, a month after his Masters disappointment, Lowry regained his Majors mojo...
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