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Straka outlasts Lowry to win Truist Championship

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Sepp Straka (right) celebrates winning the Truist Championship as he embraces Shane Lowry, who finished tied for second, on Sunday, May 11, at the Philadelphia Cricket Club in Flourtown, Pennsylvania. 

PHILADELPHIA � If it wasn’t going to be Rory McIlroy, another Irishman would suffice. In the final pairing Sunday, Shane Lowry was the no-doubt crowd favorite. Irish flags and soccer kits dotted some of the galleries. Every time he and Sepp Straka moved between holes, it was a Lowry love fest in the final round of the Truist Championship in a metro area filled with Irish-Americans.

One fan in a hospitality tent tried to help Lowry read his 20-foot birdie putt on the 17th green by telling him: “Left edge. All day.� Lowry missed right and saved par to stay one shot behind Straka, but the damage was done a hole earlier, when Lowry, the eventual runner-up to Straka, missed left with his tee shot, pitched to seven feet, and missed his par save.





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