Shane Lowry

Shane Lowry, out of Celtic Nations (SCO/IRL/NIR/WAL), rates 83 overall on the PGA Tour — the numbers add up to a Tour Winner, with iron play the clear peak of the profile at A.

• Power sits at B for Lowry, a step below the pool average across the 2025–26 pool: 59 of the other 95 players in the pool rate higher. How far the ball goes off the tee — long hitters shorten every hole.
• Accuracy sits at B+ for Lowry, a clear strength across the 2025–26 pool: 20 of the other 95 players in the pool rate higher. How often the ball finds the fairway and stays out of trouble.
• Iron Play A — top-tier in the 2025–26 pool; only 3 players in the pool rate higher. Precision from the fairway into the green — the single biggest driver of low scores.
• Short Game sits at B+ for Lowry, on the stronger side of average across the 2025–26 pool: 35 of the other 95 players in the pool rate higher. Scrambling around the green — chips, pitches, and bunker shots that save par.
• Putting B — a step below the pool average in the 2025–26 pool; 56 of the other 95 players in the pool rate higher. Holing putts, especially the ones inside ten feet that turn pars into birdies.
• Course IQ A- — comfortably above tour-average in the 2025–26 pool; only 11 players in the pool rate higher. Course management and shot selection — playing the smart shot, not just the bold one.
• Nerve A- — well above the pool average in the 2025–26 pool; 16 of the other 95 players in the pool rate higher. Composure in contention — how a golfer performs with the tournament on the line.
• At A-, Lowry's consistency rating is a clear strength (81st percentile of the 2025–26 pool) — 18 of the other 95 players in the pool rate higher. How tightly a golfer's scores cluster around their average, round after round.
• At B+, Lowry's engine rating is a shade above the pool average (52nd percentile of the 2025–26 pool) — 46 of the other 95 players in the pool rate higher. Stamina and durability across a long season — fewer withdrawals, less late-year fade.

Tour Winner. A solid tour winner's profile — no glaring weakness, a rating comfortably above the pool average, and enough all-around game to be a threat most weeks without a single standout attribute.

On raw attribute shape, nobody in the 2025–26 pool matches this card more closely than Alex Smalley, J.J. Spaun and Patrick Cantlay, in that order of similarity.

• Alex Smalley,
• J.J. Spaun,
• Patrick Cantlay

Of the 24 events on the schedule, U.S. Open, THE PLAYERS Championship and The Open Championship suit this build's attribute mix the best, based on how each course's demands line up with the card's strengths.

• U.S. Open — Major
• THE PLAYERS Championship — Flagship
• The Open Championship — Major

At $6M (B tier), Shane Lowry leaves $39M of the $45M Salary Cap budget for the other eight zones — room for 3 more S-tier chips, or 32 E-tier picks, or any mix in between. Good complementary picks to shore up the softer zones (power, putting and accuracy) include Rory McIlroy ($10M), Sam Burns ($8M) and Scottie Scheffler ($10M).

• Rory McIlroy ($10M),
• Sam Burns ($8M),
• Scottie Scheffler ($10M)

2019 Open champion. Ratings on this card are editorial judgment, not official statistics — see the methodology page for how they are derived.

Every rating on this page is a 1–10 editorial judgment, not a live statistic — see how ratings and the season simulation work.