Opening 68 a pleasing start for local boy Lowry

'Happy with my day's work, and get to go home to my own house and put the feet up and watch some golf this afternoon, tomorrow morning, and get out there tomorrow afternoon and get after it again.'

'VERY HAPPY'; Shane Lowry walks up the 9th fairway. Pic: ©INPHO/Ben Brady

Two bogeys in his final three holes wasn’t enough to ruin Shane Lowry’s day as he opened his 2023 Irish Open with a promising four-under 68 at the K Club earlier.

In between those dropped shots on the seventh and ninth came a birdie, one of seven in an impressive first round for the Offaly man.