Former champion Shane Lowry mentioned his Open Championship at Royal Portrush had been “laborious to take” after a taking pictures three over in his third spherical on Saturday.
The world quantity 18, who lifted the Claret Jug when the championship was final staged on the Northern Irish hyperlinks in 2019, was assessed a two-stroke penalty after his second spherical on Friday and returned to the course the following day affected by a virus.
“To be sincere, I am gutted,” mentioned the Irishman.
“I wished to do nicely so badly immediately and this week. I put a lot into this week that, yeah, it is laborious to take.
“The annoying factor for me immediately is I did not get to get pleasure from immediately as a lot as I’d have preferred – Saturday at The Open in your house nation, I ought to get pleasure from it much more than I did, simply due to how I felt.”
Lowry, who mentioned he “was not too eager” to debate the penalty incident for a second time, birdied the thirteenth on Saturday to get again to stage par for the championship however adopted that with a quadruple bogey on the following gap and dropped an extra shot on the seventeenth.
He mentioned his sickness contributed to a “lack of power” within the closing stretch of holes.
“Actually, each rest room I went in and tried to throw up, I could not,” he added.
“It is simply such a foul feeling. I feel lack of power in the direction of the top perhaps did me in.
“Look, I do not wish to make excuses. It’s what it’s. It is simply actually unhealthy timing, clearly.”
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