Shane Lowry: ‘I have not driven out on a Sunday evening happy with myself ever here’

How Lowry would love to secure permanent residency at Augusta National Golf Club.

Shane Lowry of Ireland follows through on his drive. Pic: AP Photo/Gerald Herbert

The great contradiction that defines the Masters is that this magnificent club, with all of its horticultural wonder and illustrious history, is also capable of being remorselessly cruel. Shane Lowry has felt that sting.

It was John Steinbeck, the great American novelist, who wrote of how New York could be an ugly place with relentless traffic and murderous competition, but once “it has become your home, no place else is good enough.”