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Published 10:23 23 Jul 2019 BST
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The 32-year-old is dead-set on automatically qualifying for the 2020 Ryder Cup, at Whistling Straits, and set out his agenda at Portrush:
"I love playing the European Tour. I'll be back in September to start my quest of making the Ryder Cup team next year, and that's my focus the next 12 months."Lowry will have hopefully put himself in a great position to do that, or potentially have picked up enough points to qualify, by the time the Tokyo Olympics come around in late July. Only 60 golfers will make the Olympics field, with the top 15 golfers in the world guaranteed slots, provided there are not another four countrymen [and countrywomen] ranked higher. The bonus for Lowry is that Official World Golf Ranking points are being counted from July 1, 2019 up until June 30, 2020. That means Lowry's Open victory, and the huge points collected for that, now go towards Olympic qualification. As it stands, Lowry is placed 10th in the Olympic qualifying rankings while Rory McIlroy is third:
He may be No.17 in the world but the confluence of Americans in the top 20 means not all would automatically make the cut. Here are the Americans Lowry has leapfrogged:
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