Lowry settles into the limelight

SERGIO GARCIA and Henrik Stenson, ranked fourth and fifth in the world respectively, are at the London Club for the European Open beginning here this morning. So, too, is the Masters champion Angel Cabrera, along with a whole lot more of the world’s finest golfers.

But they hardly got a look-in yesterday as just about everyone focused on the arrival of the European Tour’s bright new star, the 22-year-old 3 Irish Open champion Shane Lowry.

It can’t have been easy for a young man making his debut in the paid ranks to face the assembled media. But Lowry has always been known as a cool, laid-back kind of individual and he lived up to that reputation with the impressive manner in which he dealt with every question.