Shane Lowry spent an hour with me on the driving range, talking golf and life. Darren Riehl Shane Lowry insists that he could never spend all day on a driving range. But after an hour at this one , it feels like he was just getting going.
It’s a sweltering summer’s day when Lowry kindly agrees to meet me at Chris Cote’s Performance Center, a lovely green slice of rural Connecticut just down the road from TPC River Highlands, where he’s gearing up for the Travelers Championship. Before Lowry, our most recent episode of “Warming Up” had featured Bryson DeChambeau , whose approach is proudly outside-the-box, proudly technical and proudly range-centric to the point where outside of tournament weeks, he almost never plays golf. His approach has also been extremely successful — he just won the U.
S. Open , after all. Lowry recognizes all of that — but still .
“Obviously that works for Bryson — he’s a pretty good player,” he says with a chuckle. “But if I spend all my time on the range, I think I’d just be thinking about it too much. And when I start thinking about it, that’s when it goes wrong.
” Lowry practices plenty; he loves golf but also treats it as his job, which is why you can find him on the course or at the practice facility most working hours of most days. But the beauty of golf and my favorite part of this series is just how differently these pros approach the same goal of getting the ball in the hole as effectively as possible. The session.