Tennis
ATP T’MENT (Atlanta, Georgia).-1st rd: D Evans
(GB) bt J Jung (Taipei) 6-1 6-1.
ATP T’MENT (Gstaad).-1st rd: J Munar (Spain) bt
M Jaziri (Tunisia) 5-7 6-3 6-4; G Marco Moroni
(Italy) bt T Robredo (Spain) 6-2 6-2; J Sousa
(Portugal) bt S Darcis (Belgium) 6-4 6-4; T Daniel
(Japan) bt F Baldi (Italy) 6-4 6-4; D Istomin
(Uzbekistan) bt M Huesler (Switzerland) 6-3 7-6
(7-0); A Ramos-Vinolas (Spain) bt H Laaksonen
(Switzerland) 6-0 6-3.
ATP T’MENT (Hamburg).-1st rd: D Thiem
(Austria) bt P Cuevas (Uruguay) 6-3 7-6 (7-3); C
Ruud (Norway) bt R Haase (Holland) 6-3 3-6 6-1;
F Fognini (Italy) bt J Lenz (Germany) 6-4 6-4; P
Carreno-Busta (Spain) bt Y Hanfmann (Germany)
7-5 (7-5) 6-4; J Struff (Germany) bt T Moura
Monteiro (Brazil) 6-1 6-3; R Gasquet (France) bt S
Nagal (India) 6-2 7-6 (7-2); J Ignacio Londero
(Argentina) bt A Davidovich Fokina (Spain) 6-3 6-2;
N Basilashvili (Georgia) bt H Dellien (Bolivia) 6-4
6-3; F Krajinovic (Serbia) bt L Djere (Serbia) 6-3
6-3; F Delbonis (Argentina) bt M Cecchinato
(Italy) 6-7 (5-7) 7-6 (7-3) 6-2; A Zverev
(Germany) bt N Jarry (Chile) 6-4 6-2.
WTA T’MENT (Palermo).-1st rd: K Bertens
(Holland) bt E Gorgodze (Georgia) 6-0 6-1; I Begu
(Romania) bt T Mrdeza (Croatia) 7-5 6-2; J Paolini
(Italy) bt L Siegemund (Germany) 6-1 6-4; V
Kuzmova (Slovakia) bt E Cocciaretto (Italy) 6-4
3-6 6-3; F Ferro (France) bt S Sorribes Tormo
(Spain) 6-4 7-5; J Belen Teichmann (Switzerland)
bt D Gavrilova (Australia) 7-6 (7-3) 7-5; A
Friedsam (Germany) bt S Voegele (Switzerland)
6-2 7-6 (8-6).
LTA SUMMER COUNTY CUP EVENT (Eastbourne).-
Group One, Men: Middlesex bt South Wales 6–3;
Suffolk bt Hertfordshire 5-4. Women: Middlesex
bt Warwickshire 7–2; Yorkshire bt Essex 5–4;
Hertfordshire bt Surrey 6-3.Speedway
CH'SHIP SHIELD.-Semi-final, 1st leg Glasgow
47 Eastbourne 43.Tour de France
Stage 16 (Nimes, 177km): 1 C Ewan (Australia)
Lotto Soudal 3h 57m 08s; 2 E Viviani (Italy)
Deceuninck-QuickStep; 3 D Groenewegen
(Holland) Team Jumbo-Visma; 4 P Sagan
(Slovakia) Bora-Hansgrohe; 5 N Bonifazio (Italy)
Total Direct Energie; 6 M Matthews (Australia)
Team Sunweb; 20 J Alaphilippe (France)
Deceuninck-QuickStep 25 G Thomas (GB) Team
Ineos; 37 D Martin (Rep of Ireland) UAE Team
Emirates all at same time; 58 L Rowe (GB) Team
Ineos +37s; 94 A Yates (GB) Mitchelton-Scott
+2m 00s; 102 A Dowsett (GB) Katusha-Alpecin;
112 N Roche (Rep of Ireland) Team Sunweb both
at same time; 140 S Yates (GB) Mitchelton-Scott
+3-49; 142 S Cummings (GB) Dimension Data
+4-42.
Overall 1 Alaphilippe 64h 57m 30s; 2 Thomas
+01m 35s; 3 S Kruijswijk (Holland) Team Jumbo-
Visma +1-47; 4 T Pinot (France) Groupama-FDJ
+1-50; 5 E Bernal (Colombia) Team Ineos +2-02;
6 E Buchmann (Germany) Bora-Hansgrohe +2-14;
7 M Landa (Spain) Movistar Team +4-54; 8 A
Valverde (Spain) Movistar Team +5-00; 9 R Uran
(Colombia) EF Education First +5-33; 10 R Porte
(Australia) Trek-Segafredo +6-30; 13 Martin +11-
39; 23 A Yates +35-18; 36 Roche +59-25; 55 S
Yates +1h 21m 37s; 116 Rowe +2-23:-27; 140
Cummings +2-46-11; 147 Dowsett +2-50-22.
Points P Sagan (Slovakia) 309pts.
King of the mountain T Wellens (Germany) 64pts.
Young rider E Bernal (Colombia) 64h 59m 32s.
Team Movistar 195h 19m 44s.
Today, Stage 17 Pont du Gard to Gap, 200km.Fixtures
7.45 unless statedCricket
ONLY TEST (day 1 of 4).-Lord’s: England v
Ireland (11am).
SPECSAVERS COUNTY CH'SHIP (day 4 of
4).-Division Two, Cheltenham: Gloucestershire v
Worcestershire (11am).T20 BLAST.-North Group, Trent Bridge:
Nottinghamshire v Northamptonshire (6.30pm).
Edgbaston: Warwickshire v Derbyshire (7pm).
South Group:, Hove: Sussex v Hampshire (7pm).Football
CHAMPIONS LEAGUE
2ND Q'FYING ROUND 1ST LEG
Celtic v Nomme Kalju
Dundalk v Karabakh
Red Star Belgrade v HJK, BATE Borisov v
Rosenborg (6), Ferencvaros v Valletta (7), CFR
Cluj v Maccabi Tel-Aviv (7), Maribor v AIK
Stockholm (7.15).
EUROPA LEAGUE.-2nd q'fying rd 1st leg: Slovan
Bratislava v Feronikeli (5).
BETFRED CUP.-Group A: Hearts v Stenhousemuir.
Group B: Ross County v Forfar, St Johnstone v
Brechin. Group F: Airdrieonians v Queen’s Park,
Partick v Clyde.
FRIENDLIES: Bury v Blackburn, Cheshunt v
Stevenage, Forest Green v Bristol City,
Huddersfield v Doncaster (7.30), Hull v Amiens,
Kitchee v Man City (1), Lincoln City v Stoke,
Mickleover Sports v Burton, Norwich v Brentford
(4.30), Sheffield FC v Chesterfield (7.30),
Southend v Millwall (7.30), Walsall v Aston Villa,
Wigan v Everton, Peterborough v Reading (4),
Oxford Utd v Leeds.Sport on TV
BASEBALL: MLB, Tampa Bay Rays v Boston Red
Sox - BT Sport//ESPN 5pm.
CRICKET: Test, England v Ireland - Sky Sports
Main Event, Sky Sports Cricket 10am; T20 Blast,
Sussex v Hampshire - Sky Sports Main Event, Sky
Sports Cricket 6.55.
CYCLING: Tour de France, stage 17 - Eurosport 1
11am, ITV4 11.15.
DARTS: World Matchplay Darts from Winter
Gardens in Blackpool - Sky Sports Action 7pm, Sky
Sports Main Event 10pm.
TENNIS: WTA Tennis, the Baltic Open - BT Sport
1 12pm.Sport Golf
W
hen you hail
from a town
with a
population of
3,242 and more
than 10,000
come out to celebrate your
homecoming, you can tell you have
achieved something special. And
so they arrived from all over
County Offaly and beyond
yesterday to acclaim Shane Lowry
and his Claret Jug.
In fact, call that the Clara Jug,
because that is how everyone who
congregated in that small parish
was describing the precious
silverware. The golf club where he
honed his skills was not deemed
large enough to accommodate the
crowd, so they had to use the Clara
GAA ground instead.
There were balloons, inflatable
golf clubs, banners and Irish flags;
so many Irish flags.
At about 6.30pm, a marching
band led Lowry from the family
home, up the high street and
towards the green, having to stop
intermittently because of well-
wishers determined to pass on
their congratulations and, of
course, the camera operatives
attempting to get their shots.
Lowry held the hand of his
82-year-old grandmother Emily- who became a social-media
sensation on Monday with an
interview in which she revealed
she had drunk her first brandy in
10 years – and in the other hand
raised the Claret Jug aloft. Lowry’s
extended family walked with him,
the rock band on the stage getting
louder by the step.
And then the 32-year-old
climbed up himself and showed his
adoring working-class community
what he had brought back from
Royal Portrush.
Lowry had said it all felt
“surreal” before, but this ventured
way further into the theatre of the
absurd. Emily was called out on
stage to sing and said: “My God, I
wouldn’t want to be Rihanna.”
Only in Ireland, perhaps only in
Offaly. Sorry, Boris, but there was
only one story leading the Irish
news last night. Earlier in the day,
Lowry had sat in a plush Dublin
restaurant and given up trying to
envisage his first trip back
following his new change of status.
“I can’t imagine what it is going
to be like,” Lowry said. “Who
would ever have thought there
would be an Open champion going
back to Clara?”
At about the same time, the PGA
Tour was announcing the “official”
withdrawal of Lowry from this
week’s £10.25 million WGC event
in Memphis. In truth, events in
Westminster came as more of a
shock. Lowry was in Clara and
Clara was in Lowry. The two are
wonderfully ordinary. On the
three-hour drive to Dublin in the
hours after his Sunday glory,
Lowry stopped at a McDonald’s
drive-through.
The cashier peered into the car
and saw Lowry with his wife,
Wendy, their toddler, Iris, and,
naturally, the Jug. By last night it
had made its way to Emily’s
kitchen table. “It’ll be incredible to
see the Jug sitting there,” LowryOpen winner and his
grandmother keep party
going, writes James
Corrigan in Dublin
Centre stage:
Grandmother
Emily revels in
Shane Lowry’s
success as they
salute the crowds
in Clara with the
Claret Jug in handsaid. “There are names on it from
the 1800s. So many big names ...”
Life has changed, but Lowry
as yet seems unaware how
dramatically. Trade insiders
estimate he will earn an extra
£10 million in the next five years,
with appearance fees, sponsors’
bonuses and new contracts.
Padraig Harrington, his friend and
sometime mentor, has already
announced he wants Lowry to lead
out his Europe team in next year’s
Ryder Cup.
Yesterday, Lowry was asked by
journalists if he was prepared to
carry the flag for the Irish team at
next year’s Olympic ceremony.
“Absolutely,” he said. But his eyesportrayed more than a hint of
bewilderment. “I hope this all
doesn’t change me. The next little
while is going to be a little crazy,
isn’t it? When all the dust settles,
finally, in a month or two, I think I
will be able to go back to doing
what I normally do and just being
me without having the label of
major champion. Going around the
city yesterday with TV cameras
following was weird.”
Lowry had better get used to it.
His next two starts will be in a few
weeks’ time, in Jersey City and
Chicago – and they both have one
or two inhabitants claiming Irish
heritage. After that, all being well,
Lowry will go to the TourChampionship in Atlanta and be
one of the favourites to win the
$15 million (£12 million) FedEx Cup
bonus. The fame might astound
him, as might the money, but he is
sure his golfing stature will not.
“I am very ambitious, so I am
obviously going to want to go on to
bigger things,” Lowry said. “But
then, there aren’t many things that
are going to be bigger than Sunday.
“I actually feel lucky that it has
happened to me. Yet I do think I
can beat anyone on any given day
and if I can’t gain confidence from
this, what can I gain it from? If my
name is on the leaderboard on
Sunday at Augusta, people will
know I can get the job done.”Lowry laps up new
rock-star status as
fans throng to village
The Daily Telegraph Wednesday 24 July 2019 ** 13
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