Shane Lowry: ‘A lot of people would be happy with that as a good year’

Shane Lowry will forever remember 2016 as the year he got married and then learned he will become a father five weeks before the 2017 Masters.

In other words, he knows he could be heading to Augusta National as a dad and, who knows, he may be the new Danny Willett — a dad and a major winner by Easter.

If he wasn’t a glass half full kind of guy, he’d still be beating himself up a bit more for having had just two top 10s in 24 starts in 2016, He could torture himself a little longer for losing a four-shot lead in the final round of the US Open, for falling from 21st to 43rd in the world and for failing to make the Ryder Cup team.