Shane Lowry just kept jumping, just kept running in circles, just kept pumping his fists and clenching his arms and roaring his way around the 18th green — looking at anyone who’d roar right back at him.

His 6-foot putt, with an entire grandstand full of American fans praying for a comeback and European fans begging for anything other than a historic collapse, had settled into the hole, securing the final half-point needed for Europe to retain the Ryder Cup.

And that moment turned Lowry, the No. 24 golfer in the world who became a villain Saturday and fielded taunts about his weight , into a Ryder Cup hero.

He’d won big tournaments before.

In 2019, he celebrated a British Open title in his home country of Ireland.

That, he said, was a “dream come true.”

But this is the Ryder Cup, t

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