Play-off win for Kaymer as Lowry fades

SHANE LOWRY played a perilous shot at the final green before wrapping-up a French Open share of 50th place yesterday.

Lowry’s parents, Brendan and Bridgett, along with girlfriend Deirdre, looked on as the 3 Irish Open champion was forced to stand with one foot on a wooden parapet on the 18th green of the National Club course in Versailles.

Lowry’s 8-iron approach hit the island green with his ball coming to rest inside the line of the hazard, and just inches from finding a watery grave.