New sticks, no drawback for Shane Lowry.
Lowry leapt up the Abu Dhabi HSBC Championship on Saturday along with his second straight 6-under 66, simply his third spherical since swapping out 12 golf equipment and his golf ball.
“What’s occurring earlier than me, I haven’t actually considered,” stated Lowry, who at 15 below sits simply three pictures again of chief Paul Waring. “I’ve simply been attempting to get used to this, and it’s going very effectively thus far. Hopefully, it retains going that manner.”
Lowry’s new Cleveland/Srixon gear are all prototypes:
- ZX Proto driver (9.5 levels)
- ZX Proto driving iron (3)
- ZX Proto irons (4-PW)
- Cleveland Proto wedges (50, 54 and 58 levels)
- Proto Z-Star XV ball
Staying in Lowry’s bag are his TaylorMade M5 fairway wooden (18.25 levels) and TaylorMade Spider Tour Z putter.
“My recreation, like, I’ve been driving the ball actually good, my iron play has been nice,” Lowry stated. “You realize, I most likely haven’t been holing as many putts as I would really like. I really feel like I’m placing all proper, hitting good putts, not lacking the shorter ones. And I really feel like, yeah, just a few putts drop, I could be harmful.”
Lowry opened with a 6-under 30 on Yas Hyperlinks’ entrance 9 on Saturday, a stretch highlighted by his 36-foot eagle make on the par-5 second gap. He bogeyed the par-3 seventeenth, his solely blemish, however backed that up with a closing birdie on the par-5 18th.
Waring, who posted the bottom 36-hole rating in relation to par in DP World Tour historical past, got here again to the sector with a third-round 73 and solely leads Niklas Norgaard by a shot. Tommy Fleetwood, Thorbjorn Olesen and Sebastian Soderberg are tied with Lowry for third.
Rory McIlroy is T-13 at 13 below after a third-round 69, which was capped by a double bogey on No. 18. McIlroy is 3 over on Nos. 17-18 this week.
“Premature mistake,” McIlroy stated, “identical to yesterday on 17 and dug myself a little bit little bit of a gap to get out of. … I simply must put all of it collectively and play the best way I’ve been taking part in and maintain the large errors and large numbers off my card, and if I can do this and publish a rating, you by no means know.”
