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Mon 05 May 2009Lowry stars in amateur dramatics
WHO NEEDS Tin Cup? That was fiction, this was real. If you’d come up with a script for the drama that unfolded amid the sand hills here over the four days of the 3 Irish Open, some friend would have phoned for the men in white coats.
But, then, life is stranger than any fiction, and Shane Lowry’s dramatic, spine-tingling – yeah, make that sensational – victory in this latest edition of one of the European Tour’s primary tournaments was the stuff of fantasy.
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