Lowry keeping eyes on the prize

SHANE LOWRY is aiming high. The Irish Open champion announced his decision to turn professional yesterday and has already targeted a place in the elite field for the inaugural $10m Dubai World Championship in November.

Only the top 60 players on the European Tour rankings will qualify for the season-ending tournament at the Greg Norman-designed Earth Course at Jumeirah Golf Estates and the winner will take home a cheque of $3,666,660.

“That would be an unbelievable year but, if I don’t, I don’t,” said Lowry with the same mixture of ambition and level-headedness that secured victory at Baltray last Sunday. “We will just see what happens.”