Shane Lowry makes the Olympics and Majors his priority in 2024

29/12/2023 09:50

Ireland’s Shane Lowry will be tailoring his 2024 schedule to prioritize competing in the Majors and chasing Olympic gold at Le Golf National.

Lowry admits that it would be a dream come true to finish on top at the Albatros course in the summer of 2024.

He says that his management team have helped him come up with a schedule to make him competitive in the big five of the Majors and the Olympic Games.

"At the end of the day, I feel like I know what I want to achieve in the game. I know the tournaments that mean the most to me. So what I've done is sit down with the lads [his team at Horizon sports management] trying to figure out a schedule for me that works to get ready," Lowry told the Irish Times.

Lowry posits that a certain amount of doe-eyed optimism can be the professional golfer’s best friend. The 2019 Open Champion is fueled by the hope that the best is yet to come.

"I think I've been around long enough to know that professional golf ebbs and flows, you just have to keep doing what you feel is right,” Lowry said.

“As long as you do that, and things aren't going too badly, you just have to believe that the best is yet to come.

“And I think that's what we're great at, as professional golfers, believing that the best is yet to come, and I'm hopeful that's the case."

Lowry notched three top 20 finishes at Majors in 2023 but ended the season without a professional title. Despite the barren campaign, Lowry says he will take lessons from 2023.

"The first four months, I probably hit the ball as good as I ever have and putted as bad as I ever have. Then I figured that out some time [with putting] around May, then just didn't hit it as well. But it was pretty good on the greens for the rest of the season, quite comfortable, got very comfortable there.

"And, yeah, that was my season because seasons come and go pretty quick. I always look back and I was completely dejected after the Masters this year because I felt like I hit the ball well enough to win [at Augusta], I just putted really badly, it was probably the worst putting week I've ever had.

"I've got certain stuff that I work on but it's all very similar, I'm quite motivated going out next year. I feel like I didn't pick a good schedule for myself this year early on and I think I struggled with that. I lost confidence in certain tournaments that I historically haven't played well at anyway.

"And I just feel like at this level that you need to pick the courses that you feel like if you play great, you're going to win. Whereas I was playing some courses that I feel like if I go there I play great I'm going to finish 20th. So that's kind of a hard place to start your weekend.

"So yeah, do my schedule better next year and hopefully, my putter behaves and I feel like I can have a very good year."

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