Shane Lowry's X-rated rant at cameraman as he explains bizarre incident at The Open
The Offaly man had dropped only one shot through 28 holes before a bizarre incident unfolded on the 11th
Shane Lowry was was left fuming with a cameraman as he hit a double bogey during his second round at The Open.
The Offaly man had dropped only one shot through 28 holes before a bizarre incident unfolded on the 11th on Friday. Lowry hit a good tee shot, but was distracted by a cameraman as he went to take his second, which went left, flying over the gallery and into a gorse bush.
The 37-year-old was fuming with the outcome and could be heard saying to the cameraman: "As I was over the ball I could just see you putting your f***ing camera up. Just get out of the way. Just get back there. F*** sake.”
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Lowry took a drop shot after his ball went into the gorse, but a spectator then found his original ball, meaning it was still in play and it took some time to determine he could best take a drop. His shot then just shot of the green as he went on to get double-bogey six.
Speaking on the incident after completing his round, Lowry said: "I did the hard part. I hit my drive where you could find it, which is obviously a hard thing to do on that hole. I did a nice lie in the rough. I got a little bit distracted on the right just as I was over the shot, and I kind of lost a bit of train of thought. You're so afraid of going right there that I just snagged the club and went left.
"Then from there, I hit a great provisional. The referee asked me going down, did I want to find my first one, and I said no. So I assumed that was okay. Then we get down there, and somebody had found it. So apparently we have to find it then, or you have to go and identify it, which I thought, if you declared it lost before it was found, that you didn't, you didn't have to go and identify it.
"I felt like through that whole process of that 20 minutes, it was whatever it was, of taking the drop, seeing where I could drop, and I felt like I was very calm and composed and really knew that I was doing the right thing, and I felt like Darren did a great job too just kind of -- he kept telling me, we have loads of time. We don't need to rush this. We just need to do the right thing here.
"To be honest, I was happy enough leaving there with a 6. It was not like -- it wasn't a disaster. I was still leading the tournament.
"I think the 12th hole for me was key. 12 was playing very difficult, straight into the wind. I hit driver, 4-iron there too, the best shots I've hit all week, to about 30 feet and made par there. From then on, I felt like down out of the left coming in, it was playing quite difficult, but I felt like you could give yourself chances on the way in, and that's what I did."
He added on the cameraman: "Just there was a cameraman there, and he was walking up, and I asked him to stop or move back, and he just kind of stayed there. As it was over, he put his camera up. I kind of saw it out of the corner of my eye, and I should stood off it, my own fault."
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