Shane Lowry arrived at the Cognizant Classic as the odds-on favorite, a worthy honor considering he has finished among the top-5 in the last three years at this event.
He’s accurate off the tee, a good ball striker, and has an otherworldly short game, three attributes required to succeed at PGA National. But on Friday, it was his play around the greens that helped him move up the leaderboard.
He chipped in for birdies twice, on back-to-back holes no less, to move up the leaderboard and closer to Jake Knapp, who fired an opening 59 to grab control of the tournament on Thursday. Lowry sits at 8-under
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