Shane Lowry follows LIV Golf jibe with awkward Bryson DeChambeau Masters meeting

will play alongside on Thursday at the Masters, about “LIV bots”.

The Irishman, who is coming into the with three top-10 finishes this year, made the comment earlier this week. It followed an that he didn’t even know his ranking, suggesting it was only a matter of time before he fell out of the top 100. Lowry’s success this year, coupled with the number of LIV players whose rankings have dropped after joining the Saudi-backed tour, has seen him rise to 13th in the world. However, he revealed that he didn’t care how he got his spot.

“Well, you’ll get the LIV bots saying the world rankings don’t matter anymore, but I don’t give a s***,” he told the Irish Independent, : “I’m pretty happy with that.”

The 38-year-old has now been grouped with DeChambeau and Hideki Matsuyama for the first two rounds of the Masters. In the past, DeChambeau has previously called out the Official World Golf Ranking for its ruling.

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He The Rick Shiels Golf Show: “I know their agenda, we know their whole playbook, we see exactly what they’re trying to do.”

He added: "They're trying to hold us out long enough to where we're irrelevant. 'Oh we'll give you points now, we're gonna play nice in the sandbox'. But then we're all irrelevant, we don't have enough points to even fill a field."

In 2023, the OWGR rejected LIV Golf’s application for eligible tour status, citing that there could find “no way” to approve it. Its chairman, Peter Dawson, said: “It is unfortunate that no way to include LIV Golf in the Ranking could be found which would be fair and equitable to the 24 currently eligible tours and their thousands of playing members.

"Keeping this matter under review, OWGR will continue to monitor developments in men’s professional golf as a whole and at LIV in particular.”

Lowry is feeling confident in his upcoming Masters performance. He said on Tuesday: "I'm in a good place. My game, mentally, physically, my game, everything about it I'm feeling good. I'm excited for the week. I think my biggest thing this week is I need to lower my expectations a little bit and go out and play my game and see where it leaves me at the end of the week.”

He said he has been doing “very well” and has put himself “in contention” but this doesn’t mean he has “any given right to go and do it this week”. Lowry stated: “So I think it's just back to basics and just go after it Thursday morning and see what happens."