Lowry lost his cool after not receiving free relief from a pitch mark Friday at the PGA Championship – and he later explained that it was because of a member of the broadcast team.

The reason behind Shane Lowry losing his cool at the PGA Championship on Friday has become a bit clearer. Following the incident, Lowry, 38, who missed the cut, saidhe was not angry at the rules officials but rather a member of the ESPN broadcast team.

Do not mess with Shane Lowry’s golf game. That’s the lesson one well-meaning sports reporter learned on Friday, when the typically affable golfer was not given relief for an embedded ball on the eighth hole during yesterday’s PGA Championship at the Quail Hollow Club in Charlotte,