Lowry: 'If my name is on the leaderboard on Sunday in Augusta, they know I can get the job done'

From Sunday morning nerves to lifting the Claret Jug, Shane Lowry’s big day out at Royal Portrush turned the Irishman from nearly man into a force to be reckoned with among golf’s elite.

The Open Championship, golf’s oldest major, has frequently had the capacity to produce a “lucky” winner given its traditional seaside locations and links terrain and the vagaries of climate that go with them.