Shane Lowry: ‘I’m here to bring back a medal to Ireland’

Shane Lowry during a Tokyo Olympics Team Ireland Announcement at Mount Juliet earlier this month. Photo by Ramsey Cardy/Sportsfile

Shane Lowry hasn’t won a golf tournament since clinching The Open Championship in such emphatic style at Royal Portrush two summers ago but the Offaly man knows that he has three times the chance to secure success in Tokyo this week.

Lowry and Rory McIlroy will form the Irish challenge in the men’s tournament at the Kasumigaseki Country Club when the event tees off tomorrow and a silver or bronze medal would mean an awful lot more than a second of third-place on a usual week on tour.