Irish Examiner view: Good guys win

Lowry victory

Shane Lowry lifts the trophy after winning the BMW PGA Championship at Wentworth.

Shane Lowry’s ‘victory for the good guys’ at Wentworth in Sunday’s PGA Championship showcase event of the DP World Tour was not only a much-needed win for the Irishman but also for the two main golf tours which are currently trying to fend off the increasingly mendacious and dollar-laden Saudi-backed rebel LIV Tour.

Seventeen members of the LIV Tour turned up at Wentworth — to a chorus of scorn and opprobrium — and, much to the horror of both the PGA Tour and its European-based ally, the DP World Tour, two of them, Patrick Reed and Talor Gooch, made a good stab at winning it.