Furious Shane Lowry smashes golf club and swears as Sky Sports forced to apologise for X rated language
The fuming Irishman was left raging after a dreadful bit of luck at Quail Hollow
Furious Shane Lowry let rip and smashed a club into the deck after a horrendous bit of bad luck at the PGA Championship.
The raging Irishman rattled a chunk out of the ground in anger and hammered out an expletive after being buried by a rival's plug mark at Quail Hollow.
Lowry hit a lovely drive down his eighth hole of the day, but was left horrified when he got to his ball for the approach to find it had fallen a hole.
One of his fellow competitors out earlier in the day had left a crater in the fairway and the Ryder Cup star had the misfortunate to go straight into it.
Lowry did his best to play the shot, but it was almost impossible to get it right and, as his effort plunged miles short of his intended target, he exploded in anger with choice words and a crack of his club into the deck.
Sky's Nick Dougherty apologised over the language before former Ryder Cup-winning captain Paul McGinley explained the situation as he stated: 'I think it was a plug mark, but because it wasn't Shane's, he couldn't get relief.'
Lowry's stroke of miserable luck saw him drop back to even-par on the day and two over for the championship with the back nine of his Friday still to play.
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