‘F*** this place’ – Shane Lowry unloads in furious PGA Championship rant

Shane Lowry may never want to see Quail Hollow again. 

“F*** this place,” the furious Irishman shouted after an absolutely horrific break as he battled to make the cut during the second round of the PGA Championship.

Lowry just does not like this golf course. He never has. In his previous six visits to the Charlotte venue, he missed two cuts and had a best finish of T34.

“I always struggle around here, and it was another one of those days,” he said after his first round 73.

But many golfers would be able to understand Lowry’s rage after what happened on his eighth hole on Friday.

• PGA Championship hopeful withdraws midway through second round

• Major winner gets snake fright at PGA Championship

After crushing his drive on the relatively short par-4, Lowry should have been looking at a great chance to make a birdie and get back to level par for the tournament.

Instead, he was left incandescent.

It may have appeared that Lowry flubbed his short approach from the short stuff into the front bunker.

Only, when you took a closer look, Lowry’s ball was embedded into the rain-sodden fairway.

His ball had partially plugged in a rival’s old pitch mark, which meant he wasn’t allowed relief. The rules state that Lowry would have been able to take relief had the ball been in his own pitch mark.

A brutal, brutal break.

• Watch: PGA Championship contender almost domes fan with wild shot

• Former Ryder Cup star roasted by golf club president over Kardashian dig

Lowry did his best to play what in reality was an absolutely impossible shot. And then he lost it.

As his wedge shot plunged into the bunker, he unloaded with those choice words and smashed his wedge into the surface.

It later emerged that he had remonstrated with an official about his unfortunate ruling.

Then, after missing a par putt to salvage something from his incredible misfortune, Lowry flipped a middle finger at the hole.

And so if Lowry wasn’t a fan of Quail Hollow before this week, just don’t ask him now.

Ben Parsons is the Senior Writer at bunkered and is the man to come to for all of the latest news, across both the professional and amateur games. Formerly of The Mirror and Press Association, he is a member at Halifax Golf Club and is a long-suffering fan of both Manchester United and the Wales rugby team.