Irish Open final leaderboard
-23 S Lowry (Ire); -12 P Reed (US), J Niemann (Chi); -11 R Neergaard-Petersen (Den); -10 T McKibbin (NI), G De Leo (Ita)
Selected others: -9 A Fitzpatrick (Eng), J Skov Olesen (Den); -8 E Ferguson (Sco); -7 P Waring (Eng); -6 S Garcia (Spa), M Wallace (Eng), R MacIntyre (Sco); -4 J Rahm (Spa), D Law (Sco), R Fisher (Eng); -3 L Nolan (Ire), R Hojgaard (Den), N Noergaard (Den); -1 R McIlroy (NI), +2 B Koepka (US).
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Shane Lowry sealed a first individual tournament victory since 2022 as he collected a second Irish Open title with an 11-shot win at the Trump International Golf Links & Hotel in Doonbeg.
The 39-year-old Irishman’s first career title same in the 2009 tournament when still an amateur, and now joins 2025 winner Rory McIlroy – whom he won the 2024 Zurich Classic of New Orleans alongside – as a two-time champion.
It sealed an eighth career title and seventh individual for the man from Clara in County Offaly, all under the watchful gaze of visiting US President Donald Trump.
Lowry had been in sparkling form all weekend, shooting a course-record 62 on Friday and then delivered an impressive putting display on Saturday to build a four-shot lead over Denmark’s Jacob Skov Olesen going into Sunday’s final round.
While it required a play-off in 2009 to see off Robert Rock, this victory was emphatic as he picked up where he left off over the first three rounds with a 63 that included eight birdies and just one dropped shot.
Following near misses in Dubai and Florida earlier this year, the 2019 Open winner showed no signs of nerves with a birdie on the first and followed up with a further three before his first bogey of the day on the par-three ninth.
Despite this mishap, Lowry’s lead was out to seven shots at the turnaround with Patrick Reed moving into second as Olesen was unable to keep pace.
That bogey was immediately cancelled out as Lowry responded with a birdie at the par-five 10th and he was able to maintain the gap over the next three holes as his rivals failed to apply pressure.
It was simply a case of keeping things steady, but there remained a desire to finish in style and birdies on 14 and 15 – following a 40-foot putt – left him 10 strokes clear.
The rim of the cup would deny him another on 16 for what would have been a spectacular chip-in but the smile playing across his face told the story of a man who knew it was going to be his day.
He would finish with the flourish he and the home crowd craved, sinking one final birdie on the 18th from all of 29 feet to round off a magical weekend.
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