Shane Lowry steadies ship to remain on course

Shane Lowry survived some of the toughest conditions of his career last night to stay in the Masters mix on a testing day at Augusta National.

Starting the day in a tie for second place on four-under par, two shots behind first-round leader Jordan Spieth, Lowry overcame a bogey-bogey start to book a late tee time in today’s third round.

It might have been a four-over-par round of 76 but the level-par score for 36 holes was a total he would have readily accepted going into the first major of 2016.