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16th July 2022
10:02pm BST

LOWRY [to Thomas]: Most improved! THOMAS [to Lowry]: Shut the f*** up!Both men shared a laugh as the TV presenters made the appropriate apologies. Thomas would end up with par but Lowry got a birdie to go -4. He would start Saturday nine shots behind leader Cameron Smith. Both Thomas and Lowry appeared to accept their fate. They could go low on the Saturday and Sunday, of course, but there were too many quality players ahead of them with plenty of shots to play with. For eight holes of Shane Lowry's third round, it looked as though that acceptance of his fate, as an Open 'also ran', was weighing on his shoulders. Going +3 after four holes of his first round and a double bogey on 16, in his second round. Those thoughts would not be far from his mind. He could have been five shots closer, at least. Then, on the ninth hole, Lowry chipped in for a superb eagle. He was up to -7. https://twitter.com/SportsJOEdotie/status/1548307681802272769 One hole later, he was -9 and within four strokes of the lead: https://twitter.com/SportsJOEdotie/status/1548310617982787585
"It was a very emotional day. I felt like through the middle of the front nine I was just going along okay, not doing anything great. Obviously 9 and 10 happened and I felt like I was in the tournament. And did well to play my way out of the tournament from there. "Pretty annoyed and pretty pissed off, to be honest. And I keep telling myself and you keep saying all the time that you want to get yourself to the back nine on a Saturday with an opportunity to do something great. And I got myself there today and I didn't perform. So that's very disappointing."Asked if all he could do was clear his head and try to go low again, on Sunday, Lowry replied, "Yeah, I do. "I'm playing good enough. My game has been good enough all week. To be honest, I think it's a credit to my game the way I fought to be top 20 going into Sunday around here. So, yeah, I'm fairly bullish about if I do figure something out, I could shoot a score tomorrow. But I'm trying my best. Like, I don't have the answer. I don't have the answer. "If I did, I wouldn't need to go to the putting green now. But it's just hard. This game is hard sometimes."
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