{"id":1544,"date":"2022-09-12T01:49:51","date_gmt":"2022-09-12T01:49:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/bmw-pga-championship-shane-lowry-holds-off-rory-mcilroy-jon-rahm\/"},"modified":"2022-09-12T01:49:52","modified_gmt":"2022-09-12T01:49:52","slug":"bmw-pga-championship-shane-lowry-holds-off-rory-mcilroy-jon-rahm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/bmw-pga-championship-shane-lowry-holds-off-rory-mcilroy-jon-rahm\/","title":{"rendered":"BMW PGA Championship: Shane Lowry holds off Rory McIlroy & Jon Rahm"},"content":{"rendered":"


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-17<\/strong> S Lowry (Ire); <\/span>-16<\/strong> J Rahm (Spa), R McIlroy (NI); <\/span>-15<\/strong> T Gooch (US); <\/span>-14<\/strong> P Reed (US), T Detry (Bel)<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Selected others: -12<\/strong> L Westwood (Eng), M Southgate (Eng); <\/span>-11<\/strong> D Horsey (Eng), S Horsfield (Eng); <\/span>-10<\/strong> G Forrest; <\/span>-9<\/strong> I Poulter (Eng); <\/span>-8<\/strong> M Fitzpatrick (Eng); <\/span>-7<\/strong> G McDowell (NI)<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Full leaderboard<\/span><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Coverage:<\/strong> Highlights on BBC Two, 23:45 BST Sunday and BBC iPlayer<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Ireland’s Shane Lowry said his victory over a BMW PGA Championship field featuring several LIV Golf Series players was “one for the good guys”.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Lowry, 35, birdied the 18th to beat Jon Rahm and Rory McIlroy by one stroke.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Spain’s Rahm played the last 10 holes in nine under in a 62 but Lowry birdied 18 to sign for a 65 while McIlroy failed with a putt to force a play-off. <\/span><\/p>\n

One of the 18 Saudi Arabian-backed LIV Golf players competing, American Talor Gooch, shot a 67 to take fourth place.<\/span><\/p>\n

Lowry said at the start of a week that began with much talk about the LIV Golf players being able to compete that he “can’t stand” them being in the field.<\/span><\/p>\n

The former Open champion reiterated his feelings after his victory at Wentworth, saying: “I made no secret how I feel about the whole thing.<\/span><\/p>\n

“I wanted to go and win the tournament for myself and those who have stayed loyal and done everything for the tour. This is one for the good guys.”<\/span><\/p>\n

The event in Surrey was suspended on Thursday evening following the death of Queen Elizabeth II, the UK’s longest-serving monarch.<\/span><\/p>\n

Players, caddies and officials paid tribute to the Queen with a <\/span>two-minute silence<\/span><\/a> when play resumed on Saturday, with the tournament reduced to 54 holes.<\/span><\/p>\n

It was Lowry who finished at the top of a high-class leaderboard in the DP World Tour’s flagship event as he claimed his first win since the 2019 Open.<\/span><\/p>\n

He told Sky Sports: “I am the happiest man in the world. It means a lot to win, it has been a good year, I have been close a few times and I really wanted to win one.<\/span><\/p>\n

“This one was right at the top of the list, I love it here and contended in the past. The bad shots over the years started creeping into my head, but I am so happy.<\/span><\/p>\n

“I got to 16 [Rahm’s score] then had to worry about Rory behind me, who can do anything on the last few holes. I am playing the best golf of my life.”<\/span><\/p>\n

Like Lowry, McIlroy has also been a staunch opponent of LIV Golf and said in the lead-up to the tournament that competing against players from the breakaway would be <\/span>“hard for me to stomach”.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

On the course it was almost the perfect response from the FedEx champion but an eagle and four birdies in a final round that saw him hit several poor iron shots were not enough for the four-time major winner to win a sixth event of his season.<\/span><\/p>\n

He had a good chance to eagle the 18th and tie Lowry but his putt missed by a couple of millimetres.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n


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-17 S Lowry (Ire); -16 J Rahm (Spa), R McIlroy (NI); -15 T Gooch (US); -14 P Reed (US), T Detry (Bel) Selected others: -12 L Westwood (Eng), M Southgate (Eng); -11 D Horsey (Eng), S Horsfield (Eng); -10 G Forrest; -9 I Poulter (Eng); -8 M Fitzpatrick (Eng); -7 G McDowell (NI) Full leaderboard […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1545,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1544"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1544"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1544\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1546,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1544\/revisions\/1546"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}