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Published 10:41 17 Jun 2022 BST
Updated 10:52 17 Jun 2022 BST
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"I really like Shane Lowry for this... big, fat Irishman. He'll be beloved here [in Boston], get a tonne of support. He's been playing the best, most consistent golf of his career. Tied for third at The Masters."The reference to Lowry's physique was meant in jest, but it was a bit much. It is not the first time Lowry's weight has been brought up, either. Saying he would put some money on Lowry, at 30/1, Bill Simmons joked, "He's just so Boston. He's the most Boston, probably, out of any golfer we have in this." https://twitter.com/ShaneLowryGolf/status/1537200195477331968 The winds picked up a bit when Lowry, one of the late starters, was out on the course but he will have been disappointed that he could not get around in at least even par. Lowry, Mickelson and Oosthuizen are out early in the second round and all three will be hoping to make improvements from their opening tallies. "I will go out and try and break 70 [on Friday]," Lowry told Philip Reid. "If I can break par, then I will be back in it because I don’t know what it is going to take to win this tournament, but it is not going to be much, scoring wise." Of the other local golfers in the field, Seamus Power is +1 while Rory McIlroy is -3 and one shot off the lead.
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