Shane Lowry admits he made a mistake in the build-up to the US Open, ‘that’s my own fault’

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Shane Lowry has struggled with his form and confidence since his missed cut at The US Open in June.

Lowry‘s struggles actually began just after he failed to win the Truist Championship in May, and he hasn’t finished inside the top-10 since then.

The Irishman will be desperate for a good showing at The Open Championship this week, and if he is to enjoy any kind of success, he will need to play a lot better than he did during the US Open at Oakmont.

Lowry has enjoyed a couple of weeks off in the build-up to The Open, so he should be refreshed and ready to go at Royal Portrush.

He won The Open last time it was held at Portrush, so he should have a real feel-good factor heading into the tournament.

That definitely was not the case for him ahead of the US Open at Oakmont last month.

Shane Lowry admits he made a mistake in the build-up to the US Open

Lowry’s 2025 season has been fairly underwhelming by his standards in all honesty.

However, that could all change with a win at Royal Portrush.

So has he made any changes in order to give him a better chance of succeeding at the fourth and final major of the year?

Lowry said: “Yeah, the last sort of — obviously the last two majors I missed cuts, which I kind of pride myself on not missing cuts, especially in the big events. I feel like I can always get myself there or thereabouts in the big events and I have done over the last number of years.

“But I’ve been consistently quite good this year. I’ve given myself a couple of chances to win, which I’m very disappointed that I didn’t, but we’ve got a few months left to kind of redeem myself and get a win on the board.

“No matter how well you’re playing the season, if you don’t have a win beside your name at least once, you don’t really class it as been very good. Yeah, but my season has been going — I’ve got a good FedExCup ranking at the minute and things have been going all right.

“I do feel like I played too much golf in the lead-up to the U.S. Open. I played 9 of 11 weeks, and I feel like that really got to me. When the going got tough, I wasn’t there for it mentally, and that’s my own fault.
Like I said, I’ve had a couple of weeks to kind of take a step back and put a decent bit of work in over the last sort of week and get ready for this week, and I do feel ready. I really do.

“I try to make myself feel ready when I go out to play. Weeks like Oakmont where I massively underperformed, I just don’t feel like I was sort of ready for what was — they was going to throw at me.“

Shane Lowry’s game is perfectly suited to Royal Portrush

Now that Lowry is fully refreshed and ready to go, he may well contend at The Open Championship.

On paper, his game is ideal for links golf.

Lowry can work the ball both ways, and is well-versed in flighting his shots down under the wind.

However, his Open record is an inconsistent one to say the least.

NT = No tournament

DNP – Did not play

Lowry will obviously be keen to add another Open Championship to his CV, and nobody should be surprised if he contends at Royal Portrush this week.

He seems to be fresher than he has been all year, both mentally and physically.