Shane Lowry confident he's 'doing the right things'

Shane Lowry is confident he's doing all the right things in his quest to pick up more Majors after he threatened to make a daramatic charge for the Masters on Sunday.

Lowry finished tied for 16th on two-under following a final-round 73, which was undermined by a damaging double bogey on the 15th. A cold putter over the weekend dented Lowry's hopes, but much of his play was superb at Augusta, where Jon Rahm kicked on to take the title on 12-under-par.

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At one point the Offaly man looked like he might get himself right in the mix for a Green Jacket, but his challenge faded and he was left to reflect on some frustrations, and plenty of positives.

"Look, I never got very close to Jon but I certainly felt after I birdied 11, that if I could get through 12, and then give myself a chance on 13 and 15 then I could do something special. But I didn't," Lowry told RTÉ Sport's Greg Allen.

"I’m disappointed. I’d have liked to have finished better but the difference between tenth, or eighth, or 18th... to me I was out there to try and give myself a chance to win.

"It is what it is now. I’ll go away and regroup and get ready for next week."

Lowry was still upbeat about what 2023 could hold in store. He may not have achieved the glory he craved at a rain-battered Augusta, but the 36-year-old feels like he's not far off.

"It just shows me that what I’ve done over the last few months is the right things, I’m doing the right things. I just need to stick with that," he said.

"Pretty much since Christmas I’ve been trying to prepare for this. I’ve been really looking at this tournament, it’s been in my sights. I came here and I had very close to a lot of my best stuff this week. It shows me that I can prepare for the big