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IRELAND’S SHANE LOWRY produced a sensational albatross in the final round of the PGA Tour’s Farmers Insurance Open at Torrey Pines as he finished in a tie for 25th.
Matthieu Pavon rattled in a birdie putt at the 72nd hole to win the tournament, becoming the first French golfer to win on the modern US PGA Tour. Up by two strokes with two holes to play, Pavon missed a three-foot par putt at the 17th to see his advantage cut to one.
He was in a fairway bunker off the tee at the par-five 18th, where his second shot left him in the dense left rough. But he muscled a mighty shot to the green and avoided a playoff with a clutch seven and a half foot putt, carding a three-under par 69 for a 13-under par total.
Denmark’s Nicolai Hojgaard carded a one-under par 70 to finish second on 276.
Lowry, who had previously carded back-to-back 73s, made a poor start to the day with bogeys on the first, second and fourth. But the Offaly man enjoyed a major boost on the sixth with this monstrous effort from 256 yards on the par-five sixth hole.
From 256 yards out 🤯
— PGA TOUR (@PGATOUR) January 27, 2024
Unbelievable. pic.twitter.com/TtaMnyBNwu
Lowry dropped shots on the 12th and 15th, but fired birdies in between on the 13th and 14th, before closing out his round with a birdie on the last. He finished two-under for his round and six-under for the tournament.
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