Shane Lowry makes astonishing claim about his equipment setup

Shane Lowry makes astonishing claim about his equipment setup

In a frank interview at the Arnold Palmer Invitational, Shane Lowry admitted that he doesn’t ‘have a lot of trust’ in his gear at the moment.

Shane Lowry is in a strange place with his equipment.

The former Open champion made a rather remarkable claim during the Arnold Palmer Invitational when he admitted that he doesn’t know his current driver model and setup.

Not only that, he used three different drivers over two tournaments and tested as many as 15 on Tuesday at Bay Hill.

Lowry’s first driver change occurred during the Cognizant Classic. The Irishman put a new driver in play for the final round at PGA National after confessing that the driver he had previously been using stopped working.

“Last week, I think my driver gave up on me last week, the one that I’ve been using,” Lowry said at the Arnold Palmer Invitational.

In the same interview, he confessed that he’s currently struggling to trust a driver. While he’ll be hoping to find a quick fix before the Players Championship, his driver woes didn’t prevent him from having a strong weekend at the Arnold Palmer Invitational. With a final score of six-under par, Lowry finished the week inside the top 10, with a solo seventh-place finish.

Although everyone knows how capable Lowry is of playing good golf, I’m sure he won’t have been confident of a solid week, considering how many drivers he was testing on the range before his opening round.

“I had about 15 drivers on the range on Tuesday. So, I have no idea which one I ended up with,” Lowry admitted after the first round at the Arnold Palmer Invitational.

That driver change marked three drivers in three rounds for the Irishman. After playing the opening round with a brand new Srixon driver, Lowry first spoke about his trust issues, and he confirmed those thoughts after his second round, too.

However, he decided to persevere with the same model throughout the Arnold Palmer Invitational. I wonder if we’ll see him in the same driver come Thursday at the Players Championship? Or, if we’ll see him with 15 drivers on the range again?

Whatever the solution is, ultimately, Lowry is searching for a driver he can trust.

Speaking after round one at Bay Hill, Lowry said, “I don’t have 100 percent trust in [the current driver] yet.

“I’m pretty happy with what I have in the bag, I just need to be able to stand up on holes like 18 and trust myself to start it down the left and commit to that shot.”

Although driving isn’t the strongest element of Lowry’s game, at the Arnold Palmer Invitational, he was down on his season average for fairways in regulation (50% compared to 63.27% for the season before the event). It was also the same story for driving distance. His season average before playing at Bay Hill was 294.2 yards, but he only averaged 289 yards with his new driver.

There are clearly some teething problems Lowry will want to address before the Players Championship.