Tommy Fleetwood and Shane Lowry are good friends away from the golf course.
Fleetwood would have known more than anyone how Lowry felt after the Irishman’s terrible finish at the Cognizant Classic earlier this month.
The Englishman endured his fair share of heartbreak over the past couple of years, before finally getting over the line on the PGA Tour at the Tour Championship in August last year.
Fleetwood is not only one of the best ball-strikers in the world, but he is one of the nicest players in the game as well.
Having someone like the Englishman to lean on would have been priceless for Lowry, after he dropped four shots in his final three holes to lose by two at the Cognizant Classic.
Now Fleetwood has opened up with some very sage advice for the 2019 Open champion.
Tommy Fleetwood’s Shane Lowry prediction after Cognizant Classic nightmare
Fleetwood addressed the media at TPC Sawgrass on Monday afternoon.
The Englishman was asked by reporters whether he empathized with Lowry after what he went through at PGA National recently.
“There’s no doubt Shane is going to win, like probably pretty soon and it could be something really, really big,“ Fleetwood insisted.
“And when he does, I think like, you know, or whatever experiences have come before will be a good thing.
“Because you learn from them all the time. But yeah winning can be difficult.
“But at the same time he could win a tournament and feel like maybe he shouldn’t win it because he didn’t hit the shots — I don’t know, Shane’s won a lot of tournaments, and, yeah, you look at the Ryder Cup.
“So I don’t necessarily think it’s like — I don’t think it’s like a pressure thing. I think it’s just the fact that, you know, winning a tournament maybe just needs to happen and then he’ll win a bunch maybe.“
Tommy Fleetwood’s advice for Shane Lowry
Fleetwood was asked what advice he would give Lowry about his failure to win the Cognizant Classic.
“Yeah, of course I would talk to Shane and I would say what I would say to myself,“ Fleetwood said.
“Like you’re much better at being there and that happening than not being there at all.
“You know, I guess you could easily look at Bay Hill last week. I would have rather been in contention on the last hole and hit it in the water and lost by one than, you know, finish 49th.
“Like I would have rather done that. Like so I had — you know, the close people to me like my friends out on TOUR would give me words of encouragement and a pat on the back or whatever it would be after the weeks where I didn’t get it done.
“Like I said, there will be times that I do that again and I’ll get the same thing from my friends, and I’ll do the same to guys where it doesn’t happen and then you celebrate the times that it does.
“That’s just how it goes.
“But like I say, I always believe you’re better at being there and it not quite happening than not being there at all.“
That is sound advice from Fleetwood and Lowry would do very well to take it on board.
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