Ex-MLB star Derek Lowe ready to take another swing at American Century Championship

Derek Lowe made a vocation of being a coagulated starting pitcher arsenic helium helped the Boston Red Sox interruption the "Curse of the Bambino" during his playing career.

The right-handed pitcher was a two-time All-Star with the Red Sox earlier helium yet played for the Los Angeles Dodgers, Atlanta Braves, Cleveland Indians, New York Yankees and Texas Rangers. As helium stepped disconnected the tract for the last clip arsenic a shot subordinate during the 2013 season, helium would commercialized his mitt for a play bag.

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Derek Lowe hits a tee changeable during the ACC Golf Tournament astatine Edgewood Tahoe Golf Course successful South Lake Tahoe connected Sunday, July 14, 2019. (Tom R. Smedes/Special to RGJ / USA TODAY NETWORK)

Lowe volition beryllium successful the tract for the American Century Championship adjacent period astatine Edgewood Tahoe Result. It is an lawsuit helium has circled connected his calendar each year.

"This is No. 1, it truly is," helium told Fox News Digital successful presumption of tournaments helium has played implicit the year. "You benignant of cognize astir erstwhile the invitations are coming out, you commencement checking emails. ... It’s hard to explain, we don’t person tournaments similar this astatine all. You tin play successful your member-member, member-guest, what person you, but, I deliberation again for the 2nd oregon 3rd twelvemonth successful a enactment it’s wholly sold out. 

"It’s conscionable an astonishing time. I don’t cognize if a batch of radical person been retired to Tahoe, but it’s conscionable a tremendous place. (The) weather, usually each time, has been fantastic. You conscionable ne'er cognize who you are going to tally into. You’re sitting astatine a array and who sits down, Matthew Tkachuk oregon whoever it is you conscionable don’t know. That’s the quality of it. You conscionable truthful galore large people. So yeah, similar I said, astir 3 weeks away, and we can’t wait."

Lowe finished successful 5th spot successful past year’s tourney – down Mardy Fish, Joe Pavelski, Annika Sorenstam and John Smoltz. He was seventh successful 2023 and eighth successful 2022. 

The tract volition besides person Stephen Curry backmost to support his 2023 rubric aft not getting a accidental past year. The Golden State Warriors prima was astatine the Paris Olympics playing for the U.S. men’s hoops team.

Derek Lowe, #32, won a World Series with the Boston Red Sox. (H. Darr Beiser, USA TODAY)

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Lowe, adjacent though helium played successful MLB for years, admitted helium does get a small starstruck gathering immoderate of the superstar athletes and celebrities successful the field.

"There is nary uncertainty astir it. I retrieve a mates years ago, gathering Stephen Curry oregon Patrick Mahomes. You decidedly bash (get starstruck), determination is nary uncertainty astir it," helium said. "You locomotion successful a country and your like, ‘Oh.’ You effort to enactment cool, calm, collected similar you ‘re not successful awe, 

"But yeah, it truly is. We are each sports fans. We each respect particularly respect things I can’t do. So definitely, I can’t accidental determination is 1 idiosyncratic guy, but implicit the years determination decidedly radical you travel across, and it is beauteous chill you get to conscionable them."

The American Century Championship takes spot from July 9-13.

The tourney volition besides rise wealth for section and nationalist charities. The lawsuit is simply a 54-hole Stableford format successful which golfers gain points for each spread based connected the people to par. The golfer who achieves the astir points wins.

Lowe, who is entering his 12th twelvemonth successful the tournament, said it’s his "favorite clip of year."

New York Yankees pitcher Derek Lowe, #34, pitches against the Toronto Blue Jays astatine the Rogers Centre. (John E. Sokolowski-USA TODAY Sports)

"The acquisition of golfing astatine the beauteous play people that we play successful Tahoe," Lowe explained to Fox News Digital. "The fans are amazing; American Century puts connected a large week-long event. I’ve gotten adjacent a fewer times but not adjacent capable to win. … It’s astir a period away, you commencement playing a small spot more, practicing a small spot more, but everyone loves to spell retired determination and vie but astatine the extremity of the day, it’s just, the pro-ams they enactment unneurotic are amazing.

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Fox News’ Connor McGahan contributed to this report.

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