Lowry wins in Portugal

Reigning Irish champion, Shane Lowry scored a sparkling five under par 68 in the final round, to finish on 14-under-par and leading individual player in the Portugal Nations Cup at Vale de Lobo's Ocean Course in the Algarve, while Ireland narrowly lost out to England for the Nations Cup.

Lowry eagled the sixteenth hole and followed with a birdie on the penultimate hole before superb approach play left him with a fourteen footer for eagle on the last, had he holed it he and his team mates, Niall Kearney and Simon Ward, would have added the Nations Cup to Irish golf’s huge haul of silverware this season.