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Article: THANK heaven for Shane Lowry.
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- Irish Independent (Dublin, Republic of Ireland)
- Article date:
- May 19, 2009
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Irish Open in risk of being washed away unless it gets a dose of mid-summer sun
THANK heaven for Shane Lowry.
For without him, the first '3' Irish Open would have been an utter disaster. So many people have contributed so much to this country's effort to restore this once great event to its former status.
Yet their efforts were, once again, completely undermined by the European Tour's failure to see the lunacy of staging a professional golf tournament in this country in May.
Finding a sponsor ready, willing and able to plough '10m-plus into a sports event over three years was nothing short of miraculous in these catastrophic times.
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