Shane Lowry: ‘Do I feel like I can become world number one? I am not sure’

Lowry, 34, who this year has secured a top-10 finish at The Players Championship and a career-high tie for 21st at the Masters to take his PGA Tour earnings to over €1m so far for 2021

Shane Lowry in action during the third round of the Masters at Augusta earlier this month. Picture: Jared C Tilton

Shane Lowry does not expect his beloved Offaly GAA to try to become a new version of the all-conquering Dublin football team in order to find success and neither does the Open champion want to conduct his golf career in any way but his own.

Speaking as his financial backing of Offaly GAA’s underage structures was announced yesterday, the world number 44 who remains the most recent winner of the Claret Jug following his 2019 Open victory at Portrush admitted his mission in sport is not to be the number one-ranked player in golf but simply the best version of himself.