Steve Lowery
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"Stephen Brent Lowery" is an American professional golfer.

Lowery was born in Birmingham, Alabama. He has PGA Tour victories in 1994, 2000 and 2008. All three of his victories on the PGA Tour have come in playoffs.

Lowery has been featured in the top 50 of the Official World Golf Ranking. His best season on the PGA Tour was in 1994, when he finished 12th on the money list. He missed most of 2007 with a wrist injury. The PGA Tour granted him a partial exemption for the 2008 season. He needed to win more than $250,000 during his first eight starts in 2008 in order to re-gain his full exemption on the PGA Tour, but that became a moot point when he won the 2008 AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am. The victory gave him a full two-year exemption.

Lowery also won the Birmingham Golf Association Junior and State Junior in the late 1970s, before embarking on his four years of college at the University of Alabama. He played for coach Conrad Rehling from 1979-1983, on the Alabama Crimson Tide golf team.

In 1998, Lowery was involved in a bizarre incident at The Players Championship, in which his successful approach shot to the infamous island green on the 17th hole was stolen by a seagull (which then dropped his ball into the adjacent water hazard). Under PGA rules, Lowery was allowed to replace his ball with no penalty.

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It would be very satisfying after the start I had. That would be a huge accomplishment.

I got a good start there on 10 and drove it in the fairway a lot on the back nine. It's a great golf course, very tough. If you're in the fairway, obviously, you can shoot some good scores.

It was a difficult start but I've turned it around the last six or seven weeks.

I've started to play a lot better at the end of the year. It's more fun. I've felt a lot more competitive.

I putted well on the back nine, I've been driving the ball well and I had a lot of opportunities and was able to make a few of them on the back nine.

You guys cover this stuff. Somebody gets hot during the day, and it could be the last three groups. Who knows? Carl is certainly capable of winning. I am. It?s just a matter of who handles it well tomorrow and gets confidence and drives it in the fairway a lot and makes some putts.

I got off to a great start this morning. It was kind of chilly too. With three birdies in four holes on my back nine, I got a little bit of momentum going. I was in a good group too. Van Pelt was minus-five, so we just kind of fed off each other a little bit.

The wind was blowing and you are walking to that putting green, you hit a couple of putts, you watch how those balls roll on that putting green and you pretty much know it's going to be a challenge.

This is one of the hardest golf courses that we play all year. It's going to be windy again (today). The wind is out of the north and the greens are dried out, there is no moisture, so they are rolling really fast and they're firm.