Shane Lowry pleased with steady start at PGA Championship

Shane Lowry plays his shot from the 18th tee during the first round of the 2018 PGA Championship at Bellerive Country Club on August 9, 2018 in St Louis, Missouri. Picture: Ross Kinnaird/Getty Images

The first-round forecast everyone fretted about arrived fashionably late Thursday at TPC Harding Park.

That was good and bad news for Ireland’s finest.