Lowry dealt with the din.And the unnerving silence

People wonder how players keep their heads given the magnitude of what a prize like the Claret Jugre presents but it’s the madness of it all that overwhelms when the 18th approaches and the divide between those inside and outside the ropes begins to buckle under the waves of emotion.

The chaos kicked in as early as the 17th yesterday when Tommy Fleetwood’s tee shot landed amid a clump of journalists and photographers who had wandered ahead to beat thedescending hordes. They seemed oblivious even when the Englishman’s Titleist