Shane Lowry

38-Year-Old Golfer

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2025 Stats

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$7,082,794

Winnings/Entry

$337,276

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2026 Fantasy Outlook

Lowry put together another solid campaign in 2025, but noticeably failed to win an individual event on the PGA Tour for the sixth straight season. In fact his last such victory was his triumph at the 2019 Open Championship. Lowry came close on two different occassions with runner-up finishes at the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am and the Truist Champioship, bested by Ryder Cup teammates Rory McIlroy and Sepp Straka, respectively. Lowry finished the season top 30 in both SG: Total and adjusted scoring average. It was another great ball striking season as Lowry landed inside the top 5 in SG: Approach, but it was the third consecutive year that he failed to crack the top 100 in SG: Putting. Lowry isn't getting any younger at age 38, but he certainly still has the tools to win when he puts it all together. He needs to get off to a fast start in 2026. Read Past Outlooks

Handedness Right

Status Pro

Height 6'0"

Weight 216 lbs

DOB 4/2/1987

Birthplace Mullingar, Republic of Ireland

Country Ireland

Falters with double bogey in Dubai

January 18, 2026

Lowry finished in a four-way tie for third at the Dubai Invitational after carding a two-under 69 in the final round.

ANALYSIS
Lowry raced out to an early lead with three birdies through the first four holes and was sitting at four-under for the round heading to the par-4 18th. However, the 38-year-old Irishman's bunker shot on the 18th flew the green and into the water, eventually resulting in a double-bogey that led to him losing by two strokes to Nacho Elvira. Lowry led the field in SG: Approach (2.71) and SG: Tee to Green (2.71) but ultimately fell short from capturing his first tournament victory since the BMW PGA Championship in September of 2022. He will be in the field for the Hero Dubai Desert Classic that tees off Thursday.

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Past Fantasy Outlooks

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Lowry has developed into one of the top iron players on Tour. He ranked 12th in SG: Approach in 2024, which marked the the fourth straight season he ranked in the top-30 of that category. The surprising thing is that Lowry had another poor season from a short game perspective, ranking outside the top-100 in SG: Around-the-Green and SG: Putting. He's only two seasons removed from ranking third in scrambling on the PGA Tour. Nevertheless, 2024 saw Lowry win his first PGA Tour event since his 2019 Open Championship triumph when he partnered with Rory McIlroy to win the Zurich Classic of New Orleans. Lowry added six other top-10 finishes, with two of those coming in majors. His accuracy off the tee and approach give him a pretty high floor, but short game issues again could lead threaten his ceiling in 2025.

Lowry has plenty of talent, and he often fares well when he plays, but the problem is, he doesn't play that often. He's made just 18 starts in each of the past two seasons which means that any bad showing means a lot more than others that play 30 times per season. Lowry doesn't often play poorly, but at 36 it's hard to say that he's getting better. With that said, this past season was not one of his best, so there's plenty of room for improvement. Lowry actually made $1 million in 2021-2022 than he did this past season and that was before elevated events were in play. Lowry's ceiling isn't as high as it used to be, but he can certainly do better than he did this past season.

Lowry is the rare European Tour player that's had a lot of success on this side of the pond. It didn't begin that way however as Lowry struggled for years to find his footing, but his win at the Open Championship in 2019 seemed to unlock his full potential. The Irishman is probably now the best player without a PGA Tour victory. He cam close with a runner-up at the Honda Classic and T3's at the Masters and RBC Heritage. Lowry ranked ninth in SG: Approach, second in proximity to the hole, third in scrambling and ninth in scoring average. There's a lot of things here to like about Lowry going forward.

Lowry won the Open Championship in 2019 and seemingly coasted through the 2019-2020 season. But he bounced back in 2020-21, missing only two cuts. He played his best golf during summer and into the FedEx Cup playoffs, showing some strong ball-striking that hasn't always been there throughout his career. Lowry ended up top-25 in SG: approach, SG: around and SG: tee-to-green. The putter was really the only thing holding him back. It wouldn't be a surprise to see Lowry carry this momentum into this season.

Lowry hit it big in 2019 when he won the Open Championship, but that wasn't the only thing he accomplished. He also scored a 3rd-place finish and a runner-up on his way to over $3.4 million in earnings. This past season however, there wasn't much to write home about as he only managed one top-10 in 13 starts. Lowry's cap number is so low entering this season however that it'll be hard to pass him up in salary cap formats.

After three up-and-down seasons as the full-time member of the PGA Tour, few expected Lowry to have a break-out season this past year, but with a win at the Open Championship, that's exactly what happened. Lowry got off to a terrible start last season, but prior to the Open Championship, he showed signs that his game was rounding into form. Predictably, the major win was his last good showing of the season as he likely spent the rest of the year celebrating. Lowry will get it back together before next season starts, but he's set the bar too high in salary cap leagues. He'll have plenty of value in other formats however.

Lowry's disappointing 2017-18 saw zero top-10s and only four top-25s in 19 starts on the PGA Tour. The burly Irishman has flashed signs of talent in big tournaments, but his limited play on the PGA Tour along with his poor performance the past two seasons makes him a menacing pick in most fantasy golf formats. As such, his outlook for next season looks similar to the past two, though he should strike a top-10 at some point if he can find his rhythm for four consecutive rounds.

Lowry's body of work saw no near-wins last season and a rank outside the top 125, a clear disappointment coming off a $1,585,436 season the year prior. Fortunately for him, his 2015 WGC-Bridgestone victory granted him a three-year exemption that will extend his fully exempt PGA Tour status through the 2017-18 season. After nearly winning the U.S. Open in 2016, the burly Irishman has posted just one top-10, so it's clear Lowry comes with some volatility. Further increasing his risk has been a limited schedule of 17 or less PGA Tour events the last three seasons, so be warned that his above average talent comes with downside as well.

Lowry's first full-season on the PGA Tour was mostly a success, but it could have been so much better if not for a disastrous final-round at the U.S. Open. Lowry, a season European Tour veteran, dipped his toes in the PGA Tour pond for the first time last season and at $1.5 million in earnings, it had to be classified as a success, but a major-win would have catapulted him into an entirely different stratosphere. With that said, his loss is the salary cap player's gain as his price is very reasonable heading into this season. It would be nice to see some added consistency this season, but that can be expected after getting acclimated last year. In draft leagues, he should be taken in the sixth or seventh round.

Lowry, a 22-year-old from Ireland, is ranked 16th in the World Amateur Golf Rankings as of mid-May 2009. He is being urged to declare himself as a professional by Darren Clarke and Rory McIlroy.

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Lowry carded a four-under 68 in the final round of the DP World India Championship to finish in a share of third place.