Dame Laura Davies predicts if Shane Lowry will ever win another major in his golfing career

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“If he doesn’t win another major I will be very surprised and I think he will be too. He has to get over the little hump of not winning from very strong winning positions, so he will have to get over that hump and post a number maybe the leaders can’t get to at some point,” she said.

“It could be this week. Who knows? He could get the job done, but this job is very difficult. Scottie Scheffler makes it look too easy, it really is not.”

What Shane Lowry admitted about his opening round at the PGA Championship

It definitely does appear that some of his results this season have knocked Lowry’s confidence.

Interestingly, he is actually in 55th on the PGA Tour for final round scoring average this year. However, that would have been helped significantly by his 65 on Sunday at Doral in the Cadillac Championship.

Lowry admitted after his opening round at Aronimink that he was not feeling particularly great in the early stages.

“Yeah, I was a little bit nervy at the start, to be honest. I struggled, I felt uncomfortable out there for a while. If anything, that kind of focuses me more, and you really just worried about – you know, not worried, but one shot at a time, and you’re really just kind of focusing on the next shot at hand,” he said.

“I felt like I did a really good job of just staying patient, trying to make birdies when I hit good shots. And if I hit bad shots, just not getting too flustered and just kind of managing my way around the course nicely.”

Any player who steps up in the manner Lowry did over the final four holes at Bethpage on that dramatic Sunday last September has the mental game to win the game’s biggest prizes.

But it does seem that Lowry just needs to banish one or two demons on the course before he is ready to add to his major tally.