Lowe: Analysis helps improve game on the pitch and golf course

James Lowe will be keeping an eye on the Masters in Augusta this week and believes that the analysis they do for rugby crosses over into playing golf.

Leinster's Jimmy O'Brien and Leinster's James Lowe. Pic: ©INPHO/Dan Sheridan

Not all sporting superstars can cross codes. Knowing how to guide a car around Mondello Park does not make you a whizz on the five-a-side courts, but the apparent ease with which so many Leinster players have taken to golf is hard to ignore.

Josh van der Flier only took up the game a few years ago and is supposedly playing off a single-digit handicap. Johnny Sexton is another man partial to a round and James Lowe, who will overload on the Masters from Augusta before Friday night’s Champions Cup quarter-final against Leicester, has been working on his game too.