We’ve seen the likes of Eddie Pepperell, Marc Leishman, John Peterson and Patton Kizzire snap their flat-sticks in anger mid-round, but last Thursday found Shane Lowry with a broken putter through no real fault of his own.

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During the first round of the CJ Cup, the 2019 Open champion had just played his approach to around 50 feet when pulled the putter from his bag just too quickly, resulting in a break between graphite and steel.

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Lowry had pulled the club out so rapidly that it fell from his grip and was heading to the floor but, “as it fell, I tried to like flick it up with my foot, but like kind of not too like aggressive or anything, just kind of tried, because the shaft was like this and tried to flick it up with my foot and I caught it like right where the graphite meets the steel on those shafts and it just snapped in half.”

Playing with the recent U.S Open winner, the world number 22 said, “I was like, yeah, I had to like pick Matt Fitzpatrick off the ground from laughing. Yeah, it was interesting. I didn’t know what was going to happen. I didn’t know if I was going to be able to use it again. It was absolutely accidental. There was no anger or anything. It was like very, very strange. It was disappointing because I like that putter. That’s the one I won with a few weeks ago and I kind of was starting to like it.”

With the manufacturer of the putter, Odyssey, having left the site on Wednesday, the Irishman explained that there was no on-course truck from which to find a quick replacement. So he did what every respecting PGA Tour player does, got an order in to the local PGA Superstore in Bluffton, and drove an hour to pick up his new putter.

Accidentally broke my putter on the 9th hole today…Hour drive to get a replacement. Thanks to the staff at the PGA Tour Superstore in Bluffton for their help. ?? pic.twitter.com/9hpfhDtg1J

— Shane Lowry (@ShaneLowryGolf) October 20, 2022

Lowry told reporters, “Yeah, look, Odyssey were very good to me. They sent one to PGA Tour Superstore down in Bluffton, which is like an hour away, so I got in the car after the round and I drove down there, and then I bought another one just to be safe, just to have an extra one there just in case we didn’t get on too well.”

As told by pgatour.com the order was in the name of Lowry’s caddy, so when the player himself turned up, “the customers were doing a couple double-takes,” Lowry said, smiling.

With the CJ Cup being a no-cut event, he was in no danger of needing to go home early. Indeed, he played pretty decent golf, recording a two-birdie back-nine on Thursday and a second round, and his best of the event, 67.

“I used my lob wedge for two holes,” revealed Lowry, before adding, “then I used — my agent went to the member’s bag storage and just pulled a Scotty Cameron putter from there and I used that for the back nine.”

“My first putt was on the 11th green and I was like ‘I have no idea what’s going to happen here.’ It was a strange hour or so. Yeah, it was interesting.”

With several spares now in his locker, just in case of future mishap, Lowry summed it all up in typical fashion.

“There’s always something,” he said.