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Shane Lowry WITB (25th May, 2025) - What's In The Bag? The Memorial @ Muirfield Village Golf Club
Shane's Srixon ZXi LS 9° with a Mitsubishi Diamana D+ White 70TX shaft is a telephone pole on a stick. The TX flex is so stiff it has its own moral compass. Shane’s using this to launch bombs with a baby draw when he’s feeling cheeky, or a high spinny cut when he’s feeling like Dustin Johnson after six pints of Guiness
Shane Lowry’s 2025 Season (So Far): The Man, The Myth, The Michelin-Starred Golfer
If you’ve ever wondered what would happen if you fused a pint of Guinness with a PGA Tour card and sprinkled in a healthy dollop of Irish stubbornness, you’d get Shane Lowry’s 2025 season. It’s been a chaotic cocktail of near-misses, pub brawls (with his swing), and the kind of clutch putting that makes your nan weep. And we’re only halfway through the year.
Lowry kicked off 2025 like every Irish uncle kicks off a wedding speech—slightly hungover but inexplicably confident. At the Sentry in Kapalua, he opened with a triple bogey, smacked a wedge into the ocean, and then casually birdied five of the last six to backdoor a top 20. A warning shot to the field: the big man had returned, and his wedges were just as unpredictable as ever.
The Misfire Heard Round the World
Then came The American Express, where Shane managed to miss a cut despite hitting 80% of fairways and 100% of the buffet table at the player lounge. “I hit it great, but the hole moved,” he told reporters while scooping a third helping of mashed potatoes. His putting stroke looked like it was borrowed from a pirate with a peg leg, but he remained unfazed.
Enter The Honda Classic, or as Shane likes to call it, “The one where I remembered how to golf.” He finished T3, missing out on a playoff by one lip-out and one caddie misread that looked suspiciously like a Google Maps error. He hit every fairway with the aggression of a man who’d just heard the pub was closing early.
By The Players Championship, Lowry was buzzing. Not from Red Bull—he's more of a cold pint kind of lad—but from actual confidence. He played like a man who had solved golf’s biggest mystery: how to not care, and still shoot 67. He finished T6 after stuffing a 7-iron to two feet on 17 and then fist-pumping like he’d just seen Ireland qualify for the World Cup.
Augusta: Where the Greens Are Meaner Than the Irish Sea
Lowry’s run at the 2025 Masters was a thing of gritty, muddy beauty. He looked like he was fighting the golf course and losing—but also somehow winning? Augusta’s greens chewed him up and spat him out, but he still managed a T8 thanks to a ridiculous up-and-down on 15 involving a pine cone, three curse words, and a bounce off a volunteer’s foot.
He did, however, lead the field in “Number of Times a Cameraman Said ‘Jesus Christ’ After a Lowry Swing.” A true stat.
The Block Party and the PGA Meltdown
At the PGA Championship, Shane was paired with Michael Block, and we all know how that goes. The man practically emits chaos. Lowry, who’d been in contention through 54 holes, got caught in Block’s gravitational field of media distractions and hosel rockets. He shanked one on 12 that still hasn’t landed, took a triple, and ended up T28. He blamed it on “external energy,” but insiders say it might’ve just been the ghost of Paddy Harrington whispering bad club selections from the gallery.
The Shane Show Must Go On
By late May, Shane had banked $4.1 million, logged four top 10s, and nearly won at Valero, where he was defeated by a rookie using irons older than Shane’s beard. That Sunday saw Lowry battle a left-to-right wind, a hot putter, and a rogue hot dog vendor who kept calling him “Shane Larry.”
He still walked off with his chin up, his head high, and his glove soaked in what we can only assume was either rainwater or malt liquor. The man is golf’s lovable tank: grizzled, unpredictable, and powered by pub food and pure resolve.
Shane Lowry’s Golf Bag in 2025: Built Like a Tank, Swung Like a Poet
Let’s talk about what’s really powering the Shane Lowry experience in 2025: a bag of absolute weapons and zero forgiveness.
This thing is a telephone pole on a stick. The TX flex is so stiff it has its own moral compass. Shane’s using this to launch bombs with a baby draw when he’s feeling cheeky, or a high spinny cut when he’s feeling like Dustin Johnson after six pints.
16.5 degrees of firepower with a shaft that’s more X-rated than a stag night in Killarney. This club doesn’t go left, which is good, because neither does Shane on political issues or tee shots under pressure.
This is Shane’s "Get Out of Jail Free" card—though usually it's used from a bush, a bunker, or a parking lot. It flies like a stinger but sounds like a shotgun. The 9X shaft is basically rebar.
The ZXi5 long irons give him a touch more forgiveness—Lowry’s version of cheating. From 6-PW, he dials in with ZXi7s, forged bricks that reward only pure strikes and broken wrists. The KBS Tour 130X shafts are so heavy they bend space-time.
These things spin more than a politician during an election cycle. The 60° has an ADAPT grind that lets Shane get weird around the greens—and he gets real weird. Think belly flop-flop shots and bunker thins that end up two feet from the pin. Black shafts for that funeral-ready look.
Putter: TaylorMade Spider Tour Z – SuperStroke Zenergy Pistol Tour
It’s a putter designed for stability, forgiveness, and the occasional dagger. Shane’s not exactly Ben Crenshaw with the blade, but when it’s on, he’s lights-out from 12 feet and closer. When it’s off? Well, remember that time you tried mini-golf drunk?
Grips: Golf Pride Tour Velvet
No nonsense. No logos. Just grip and rip. The Irish way.
Ball: Srixon Z-Star XV
Firm, fast, and built for windy links golf. Just like Shane.
Driver: Srixon ZXi LS 9°, Mitsubishi Diamana D+ White 70TX shaft
3 Wood: TaylorMade Qi35 HL 16.5°, Graphite Design Tour AD DI 8X shaft
Utility: Srixon ZXi Utility (3) 20°, Fujikura Ventus Blue 9X shaft
Irons: Srixon ZXi5 (4&5), Srixon ZXi7 (6-PW), KBS Tour 130X shafts
Wedges: Cleveland RTZ 52° (M10), 56° (M10), 60° (ADAPT), KBS Tour Wedge X Black shafts
Putter: TaylorMade Spider Tour Z, SuperStroke Zenergy Pistol Tour
Grips: Golf Pride Tour Velvet
Ball: Srixon Z-Star XV
The Memorial Tournament 2025: Can Shane Conquer Muirfield’s Mordor?
Jack Nicklaus’ personal torture chamber, aka Muirfield Village, is where egos go to die and 4-footers become folklore. It’s the Memorial Tournament, and Shane Lowry might just be the man crazy enough to love it.
First off, the rough is thicker than a Guinness stew, and Shane thrives in thick. His scrambling stats are top 5 on Tour in 2025, and he’s 2nd in strokes gained: "Oh Crap I Missed the Green Again." He knows how to chunk-and-run better than anyone not named Seve.
The course demands precision off the tee, but Lowry’s driver has been red-hot since his top 10 at Wells Fargo. He’s figured out how to hit a baby fade without accidentally aiming 40 yards right. Combine that with iron play sharper than a butcher’s cleaver, and we’ve got a potential winner—assuming he doesn’t rage-putt his way into a triple bogey on 16.
The greens at Muirfield are lightning-fast, undulating panic zones. Shane’s Spider Tour Z has been working overtime lately, and if it stays hot, he could actually putt himself into contention instead of out of it. And let’s face it, nobody wants to see a guy miss a 4-footer and shout “Jesus, Mary and Joseph!” into the NBC mic again. (Actually, we do, it’s great TV.)
Don’t forget: he was T5 at the Memorial last year, and this year he’s fitter, sharper, and still emotionally haunted by Viktor Hovland’s smug smile.
If the weather turns (which it might), Shane becomes an immediate betting favorite. Wind? Rain? Carnage? Perfect. Muirfield becomes the Irish coast. And Shane becomes a sea god.
Prediction: Lowry finishes T2, missing a playoff by one burnt edge and one bad bounce off a sprinkler head. He’ll still smile in the post-round interview, say something like “Ah sure, that’s golf, isn’t it?”—and then down a pint behind the media tent.
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