Boost for Irish Open as Shane Lowry commits to event at Galgorm Castle

Open champion Shane Lowry has given the Dubai Duty Free Irish Open a massive boost by committing to play the tournament at Galgorm Castle later this month.

The European Tour event was postponed from May at Mount Juliet due to the Covid-19 pandemic and last month it was announced the tournament would be staged on Northern Irish soil on September 24-27 given the ongoing public health restrictions south of the border. The date, though, put it in the week immediately following the rearranged US Open at Winged Foot in New York, making it logistically challenging for the world’s best golfers to play both events on different sides of the Atlantic in back-to-back weeks.