"After Eamonn Darcy's downhill putt at Muirfield Village in 1987, Christy O'Connor Jnr's sensational two-iron at The Belfry in 1989, Philip Walton's match winning point at Oak Hill in 1995, Paul McGinley's champagne cork 10-footer at The Belfry again in 2002 and Graeme McDowell's magical putt in Wales in 2010, Lowry knocked in a six-and-a-half footer for the ages at Bethpage Black last night."
""I said to Darren [Reynolds, his caddie] going down the last hole, 'I've got the chance, the opportunity, to have one of the biggest moments of my life here'," Lowry revealed afterwards. "That's what I felt like. I can't believe it, I just can't believe it, to be honest. What an awful day. Like, it was the hardest day I've ever had on the golf course."
""You're hoping Fitzy's going to win, and Ludwig is going to win and Rosie, he went down the last, and you're hoping he was going to at least get a half and Tommy the same and Rory the same. "It's hard not to look at the scoreboard, it's hard not to get involved in what's going on there, but you do have to take care of your own game.""
Shane Lowry sank a six-and-a-half-foot putt at Bethpage Black that secured Europe’s retention of the Ryder Cup and delivered the crucial 14th point. Lowry had earlier been two down with four holes to play against world number three Russell Henley before making five successive threes to halve his match. The point helped set up Tyrrell Hatton's comeback that sealed a 15-13 victory after a dramatic US singles recovery. Lowry described the closing stretch as the hardest day he had ever experienced on the course and admitted he might never have recovered if he had missed the putt.
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