Lowry willing to skip Dubai for shot at PGA

Shane Lowry has committed himself to entering the PGA Tour Qualifying School later this month in Florida and the expense of possibly forfeiting a place in the season-ending Dubai Tour Championship.

Lowry has just two events, this week’s Alfred Dunhill Links Championship and next week’s Portugal Masters, before teeing up in the First Stage of qualifying from October 24 to 27 on the Wanamaker course at the PGA Golf Club in St Lucie, Florida.

The former Irish Open champion, who posted a second straight 69 in the Scottish event to move to six under par, had hoped to avoid the four-round First Stage when entries closed two days before the commencement of last week’s Ryder Cup.