Watch: Shane Lowry hits a borderline shank at PGA Championship
Top golfer Shane Lowry, who had a hole-in-one at the Masters, hit a borderline shank at the PGA Championship.
Shane Lowry is one of the top 40 players in the world according to the most recent Official World Golf Ranking , and while pros are so much better than amateurs, golf is hard and sometimes they hit bad shots. Lowry had a hole-in-one at the Masters this year , but during the second round of the PGA Championship on Friday, he looked mortal as he hit a borderline shank on a par 3. Shane Lowry coming up a *bit* shy of the green.
This is the funniest tournament I've ever watched. pic. twitter.
com/dSe3xWzeO0 ā Dan Why-Ner (@ReallyDanWeiner) May 15, 2026 Lowry ā who has a pair of top-10 finishes this season, including a second-place showing at the Cognizant Classic in the Palm Beaches ā fired a 68 in Thursday's opening round at Aronimink and appeared to be in good position heading into the weekend, but this shot dropped him down the leaderboard. The star wound up taking a double-bogey on the short hole and had fallen to 2 over for the tournament as of 11 a. m.
ET, which is right on the projected cutline. Interestingly enough, Lowry dropped a shot on the other two par 3 holes on Thursday, the only blemishes he had on his first-round card. "You're standing on the 8th tee and at the time the wind was like, who knows how far it was playing.