Austin Eckroat of the United States celebrates with wife Sally Merrill on the 18th green after winning the Cognizant Classic at PGA National in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida. Photograph: Brennan Asplen/Getty Images
“He loves this place,” Rory McIlroy had remarked of Lowry’s feelings for the course, those words spoken after his own bid had ended on Sunday evening but with the 2019 Open champion still entertaining hopes of victory with two-thirds of his round to be completed. Although his chances of winning for the first time on the PGA Tour since his claret jug success at Royal Portrush, Lowry at least managed to regain his composure to finish strongly with birdies on the 16th and 18th to move into a five-way tied-fourth finish.
For Lowry, it will be a case of moving on swiftly after securing a sponsor’s exemption into this week’s Arnold Palmer Invitational at Bay Hill, one of the PGA Tour’s $20 million limited field events. Lowry didn’t qualify for the previous two signature events but received one of six invitations to Bay Hill, where there is not cut. Lowry is also playing the following week’s Players Championship.
Heavy rains on Sunday had forced the tournament into a Monday finish and Eckroat resumed on the eighth, adding birdies on the 12th and 13th before missing a six-footer on the 14th for his only bogey. He rebounded with a birdie on the 16th and had the luxury of playing the finishing par-five 18th conservatively to capture his maiden title and which moved him to 17th on the updated FedEx Cup standings and into the top-50 on the world rankings.
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