2019 Open Champion, and one of the PGA Tours’ strongest golfers Shane Lowry joined Dylan Dethier of Golf.com to discuss his warm up routine.
In doing so, the Irishman gave away some key tips not only into how he became the golfer he is today, but also into his simplistic philosophy which undoubtedly helps him on the golf course and in life.
As Shane took us through what’s in his golf bag, he talks through his mental golf game and shares some of his outputs on life, around simplicity, the importance of clear thinking and enjoying the simple things.
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Things we learned from Shane Lowry
Simplicity is key
Being a professional golfer, enjoying the spoils that come with that, undoubtedly has an impact on your life. As win many high earning athletes, money can change things and completely shift your life output.
One of the most inspiring things from Shane Lowry, was the simplicity he still lives by in his day to day life. When asked about his enjoyment of partying, Shane essentially sums up his enjoyment of simplicity by saying: “If I have a coffee in the morning, and a diet coke in the evening, I am a happy man.”
This is a really important message to anyone who thinks money buys happiness, Shane is very humble, and expresses that it really is life’s simple pleasures that make you happy.
Make good from the bad
Lowry spoke about how good some other golfers are at neutralising bad shots, how some of their miss hits are still so good, and how you need to make your bad days the best they can be if you want any chance to succeed.
Lowry says: “Your good days will always be good, you need to make your bad days as good as they can be.”
Shane is being very literal about golf when he says this, but this is a great philosophy to apply to life. In life you are going to have your good and your bad days, you need to make sure your bad days are as good as possible to remain level, not get too low and keep pushing forward.
It’s easy to say and hard to do, but if you can still find the positives on bad days, then that is a huge step to reducing the number of bad days, a huge skill and all part of building resilience and understanding.
Sometimes the things that are good for us are the best
Lowry went into detail about the PGA Tour, and how during his season he has his favourite weeks. One of his favourite weeks is in the build up to The Masters. He says this is because he is at home, practicing hard, going to bed early and focusing on himself.
Going to bed early and practicing hard are two very simple, healthy things for a golfer to do, and taking pride in doing those things is one of the reasons Lowry is the player he is.
Often as humans with busy lives, we don’t want to do the ‘boring’ things like train, practice, go to bed early, focus on ourselves, but actually these things are essential for success. We should not see them as boring but embrace them.
The things we learned 