Shane Lowry confronts cameraman in tense exchange after disruption leads to double bogey at The Open

An unfortunate incident marred Shane Lowry's performance during the second round at The Open when an intrusive cameraman distracted him during his tee shot, and felt the Irishman's wrath .

The Offaly golf veteran, who had only suffered a single shot loss through 28 holes , saw his game stumble at the 11th hole on Friday due to this interference.

Despite starting well with a good tee shot, the presence of the cameraman disrupted Lowry, leading his second shot to veer left, hurdle over the spectators, and land in a gorse bush.

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Clearly aggrieved by the disturbance, the 37 year old golfer was heard reprimanding the cameraman: "As I was over the ball I could just see you putting your ******* camera up. Just get out of the way. Just get back there.

Upon landing in the gorse, Lowry opted for a drop shot. Yet, adding to the confusion, a spectator located his original ball - indicating it was still in play.

Some deliberation later, Lowry chose the best place to take a drop. However, his shot fell short of the green, resulting in a double-bogey six.

Addressing this debacle after concluding his round, Lowry stated: "I did the hard part. I hit my drive where you could find it, which is obviously a hard thing to do on that hole. I did a nice lie in the rough. I got a little bit distracted on the right just as I was over the shot, and I kind of lost a bit of train of thought. You're so afraid of going right there that I just snagged the club and went left."

"Then from there, I hit a great provisional. The referee asked me going down, did I want to find my first one, and I said no. So I assumed that was okay. Then we get down there, and somebody had found it. So apparently we have to find it then, or you have to go and identify it, which I thought, if you declared it lost before it was found, that you didn't, you didn't have to go and identify it."

"I felt like through that whole process of that 20 minutes, it was whatever it was, of taking the drop, seeing where I could drop, and I felt like I was very calm and composed and really knew that I was doing the right thing, and I felt like Darren did a great job too just kind of -- he kept telling me, we have loads of time. We don't need to rush this. We just need to do the right thing here."

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"To be honest, I was happy enough leaving there with a 6. It was not like -- it wasn't a disaster. I was still leading the tournament."

"I think the 12th hole for me was key. 12 was playing very difficult, straight into the wind. I hit driver, 4-iron there too, the best shots I've hit all week, to about 30 feet and made par there. From then on, I felt like down out of the left coming in, it was playing quite difficult, but I felt like you could give yourself chances on the way in, and that's what I did."

Speaking about the incident with the cameraman, he stated: "Just there was a cameraman there, and he was walking up, and I asked him to stop or move back, and he just kind of stayed there. As it was over, he put his camera up. I kind of saw it out of the corner of my eye, and I should stood off it, my own fault."

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