\n \n Shane Lowry ended his three-year wait for a win with a dramatic victory at the BMW PGA Championship on Sunday.\n <\/p>\n \n The Irishman pipped close friend Rory McIlroy and Jon Rahm by a single stroke at Wentworth to claim his first title since The Open Championship in July 2019.\n <\/p>\n \n His sixth win on the DP World Tour, the 35-year-old carded a bogey-less 17-under across the adjusted 54-hole championship, cut from the conventional 72-hole format after Friday\u2019s second round was canceled following the death of Queen Elizabeth II.\n <\/p>\n \n After shooting a six-under 66 and 68 through the opening two rounds, Lowry arrived Sunday two strokes off the lead, but saw his final round roar into life with an eagle at the fourth hole.\n <\/p>\n \n A fourth birdie at the 12th saw Lowry draw level with 2021 US Open champion Rahm, who had set the clubhouse target at 16-under after carding a joint-event best 62.\n <\/p>\n \n With McIlroy hot on his heels, a steady run of five straight pars left Lowry needing to birdie the final hole to avoid a playoff with Rahm. After having birdied the 18th on the first two rounds, the Irishman made it a hat-trick to move within touching distance of the title.\n <\/p>\n \n It left McIlroy requiring an eagle at the par-five final hole to force a playoff, and the Northern Irishman came agonizingly close to pulling off the feat. The newly-crowned PGA Tour Championship winner found the green in two shots, but his 23-foot eagle putt missed by mere inches to confirm Lowry as champion.\n <\/p>\n \n \u201cI am so happy,\u201d Lowry told reporters. \u201cIt\u2019s so hard to win on this tour, any tour. You have some of the best players in the world trying to chase you down.\n <\/p>\n \n \u201cI felt like my game has been good enough all year to win, and I just felt like I haven\u2019t had the breaks that I needed to win tournaments.\n <\/p>\n \n \u201cI\u2019m just very thankful and very grateful that I got to win this, and what a tournament to win, as well. Seems like I don\u2019t like to do it small when I do it, so it\u2019s nice to have this on my resum\u00e9 as well.\u201d\n <\/p>\n \n Lowry has registered four top-10 finishes on the PGA Tour this season, including a runner-up finish at the Honda Classic in February, to earn $3,616,679 in prize money.\n <\/p>\n \n His triumph Sunday sees him take home \u20ac1,351,105.60 ($1,373,533.95), sweetening the joy of ending a frustrating rut.\n <\/p>\n \n \u201cI think if I didn\u2019t get over line today, maybe I do go back and start asking questions about what I need to do differently or what needs to change because, yes, my golf is good, but if you\u2019re not knocking off the wins and you\u2019re playing well, you might have to ask questions,\u201d Lowry said.\n <\/p>\n \n \u201cYou spend your life and your career getting up early every day, working your nuts off to get in these positions and when you get in these positions, it\u2019s quite uncomfortable.\n <\/p>\n \n \u201cIt\u2019s not the nicest place in the world because you don\u2019t want to mess it up and be sitting in your hotel room having thrown away the tournament and it\u2019s not a nice place to be.\u201d\n <\/p>\n
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