Rory McIlroy and Shane Lowry Wednesday Conference 2024 Zurich Classic of New Orleans ©️ PGA Tour

Rory McIlroy and Shane Lowry Wednesday Conference 2024 Zurich Classic of New Orleans ©️ PGA Tour

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good all right everyone we’ll go ahead
and get started we’d like to welcome
Rory mooy and Shane Lowry to the media
center here at the zerk classic of New
Orleans uh guys if we could just get
some opening comments on on being paired
up together this week obviously Rory
your first time here and and Shane
making your your fifth appearance um but
just some opening thoughts on on being
in New Orleans yeah it’s good to be here
um it’s uh you know I I I was saying it
to one of our PR partners out there
today it’s you know professional golf
and year in year out it’s you know it’s
a it’s a bit of a grind sometimes when
you’re on your own a lot so it’s nice to
have something different this weekend
especially be here with a a really good
friend and you know enjoy New Orleans
and um you know hopefully go and play
some good golf and give ourselves a
chance to win on
Sunday yeah um same sentiments uh
obviously this is my first time here in
New Orleans and uh yeah I’m I’m excited
to be here uh it’s a tournament that
I’ve watched on TV for for quite a few
years especially since they’ve went to
the team format and um you know Shen and
I have played in a couple Rider Cup
teams together and uh you know we
thought it would be fun to to team up
together again and and something like
this and you know Shen said like this is
I don’t know my 17th year as a
professional golfer and to be able to do
still do things for the first time like
playing this event and and experience
something like this is is pretty cool
and um yeah just really excited to to
spend the week with Shen and you know
hopefully I don’t put him in too many
bad spots and and we can play some good
golf and then just just quickly how this
how this partnership came together when
you guys first started talking about it
I know we discussed a little bit but it
was yeah I um I was the one that that
mentioned it
um I I basically I didn’t want to ask
Rory because I didn’t think that he
would want to come and play um and then
he was the one that said it to me and I
was like absolutely um so uh yeah we
talked about it I remember you know Rory
talked about the Wednesday after rer cup
we had a nice few drinks together we
talked about it that day and then he
sent me a text around Christmas time and
yeah it was a nice little Christmas
present for me to get so uh yeah happy
to be here with him you know
um I I like playing golf in the middle
of the Fairway so I’m looking forward to
this week no pressure all right thanks
guys we’ll open up to questions if you
have a question just raise your hand
we’ll get a mic over to you we’ll just
start here with
Brody Rory are you able to confirm
whether or not you a potential return to
the policy board
uh not as of yet no are we able to speak
in
hypotheticals uh maybe I guess when you
go back to a year ago or eight months
ago when you decided to step away you
know you talked about wanting to focus
more on inside the ropes and things like
that I guess what has changed in the
last eight months and kind of how do you
look back now on that decision to walk
away and why you know it might be
interesting now uh I think I can be
helpful um I don’t think there’s been
much progress made in the last eight
months and I was hopeful that there
would be and you know I I think I I I
could be helpful to the process but only
um only if if if people want me involved
I guess so you know when Webb um you
know and I talked and he he talked about
potentially um you know coming off the
board I said look if it was something
that other people wanted I would I would
gladly take that that seed and that was
the conversation that we had
um but yeah I you know I think that’s
the whole reason I feel like I can be
helpful I I feel like I you know I care
a lot and I have some pretty good
experience and and good connections um
within the game and and sort of Around
The Wider sort of ecosystem and
everything that’s going on so um you
know but at the end of the day it’s not
not quite up to me to just come back on
the board there’s a process that has to
be followed and um but I’m I’m willing
to do it if that if that’s what uh if
that’s what people um want I guess and
unification has been your your big thing
the last few months if hypothetically
you were back is is that something you
would then even have a stronger stance
on on the board absolutely yeah yeah I
think it’s the it’s the only way forward
for the for the for the game of golf I
mean
you’ve you’ve you know said before I
think that maybe you didn’t always see
eye to eye with some people before on
matters how do you manage that I guess
if if you’re back in terms of trying to
kind of steer things a certain way uh
compromise um but also you know try to
articulate your points as as well as you
can and and try to
um you know help people see the benefits
of of what unification could do for the
game and and what it could do for this
tour in in particular and um we
obviously realize the game is not
unified right now for a reason and you
know there’s still you know some hard
feelings and and things that that need
to to be addressed but I think at this
point um you know for the good of the
game we all need to put those feelings
aside and all move forward together
right d
goe physical sense of relief or a burden
when you originally left you talked
about not being able to sort of spend or
split your time with the demands of that
job and then also trying to be the best
baller you can possibly be
yeah I feel you know yes and no I would
say that i’ I’ve played some of my best
golf while being a PJ tour board member
so I don’t think it really hindered me
but um it was maybe just taken away some
time from me pursuing things or spending
time doing things that I wanted to do at
home and you know having to hop on calls
you know two three times a week and just
the whole you know the whole thing
started to to take a toll as it as it
has on a lot of the players right like
we we golfers at the end of the day we
don’t need to be trying to run a $15
billion business we need to go out there
and play golf and let the the business
people do the business things on the
matters of golf Shane I saw that you and
Rory were out in the practice area
yesterday playing together hitting
practice shots and things like that
around how often in a tournament other
than this would you guys do that is that
something that just is unique to this
venue or is is that something that you
guys might ever do outside of say Ryder
cop well it just kind of happened
yesterday we were going to go had the
course but the course was quite busy and
we didn’t want to spend too long doing
that so we said we do some chipping
around the chipping green yeah I mean I
used to do it historically for years
I’ve done it with Podrick Harington over
the years but he’s you know a lot of
time on champions tour now you know we
don’t typically do it Rory Rory likes to
play and practice early in the mornings
and I don’t so uh we we we don’t really
play that many practice rounds together
you know throughout the year we play a
few but not that many and um so yeah it
just kind of happened yesterday and it’s
it’s good fun and I think it’s a good
way to practice and I think for kids if
they want to practice get a friend or
you know a person anybody wants to
practice get a a person to play against
and go and Chip around the green because
I think that’s a good way to get
better can just pass the MK real quick
and then we’ll get r with this being
your first trip to New Orleans what is
your initial take and then Shane did you
kind of prep him for what this week’s
Vibe was
about uh no you didn’t really prep me I
guess uh yeah so we got in yesterday
uh sort of around midday we came
straight here uh so we didn’t really I
you know I didn’t get a sense really of
the city last night got to the hotel and
um didn’t really do much uh but we’ve
got some got some good restaurant
reservations the next few nights and
sort of going to hit all the the sort of
Staples that that you should and you
know I’ll maybe Venture down to Bourbon
Street at some point and um spend half
an hour and and sort of say I’ve been
there and I’ve got the t-shirt and then
and move on I don’t think I want to
spend too much time D there but uh some
beats yeah but uh yeah I’m I’m I’m
excited to be in a in a new place um you
know as I said before we spend our whole
lives going back to the same cities the
same golf courses and the same routines
so to do something a little different is
is
nice right just go right here in the
front I wanted to uh ask about oh yeah
good good sorry golf at the Olympics I
know growing up obviously you all never
had that opportunity just how great was
it to to take part a little different
because of covid but potentially the
excitement of doing it for real this
year having it as an Olympic sport and
looking forward to that this summer yeah
yeah um obviously growing up growing up
playing golf you never dreamed of being
an Olympic champion so when golf came to
the Olympics it was kind of a strange
kind of feeling to have but doing the
last Olympics with Rory together uh in
Japan all albe it it was a CO Olympic so
it was a little bit different um you
know we both we both realized what it
what it meant to go out and try and win
an Olympic medal for your country and I
think uh you know that’s something that
excites me and excites both of us to go
back to Paris this year and and try and
do that I think you know uh you know for
me personally anyway I know to go back
to Ireland with an Olympic medal would
be like a dream so um yeah something
that is high high on my bucket list for
this
year yeah um you know same thing I was
in a I was in a seven way playoff in
Tokyo for for a bronze medal and I’ve
never tried so hard to finish third in
my life so um yeah look we we we didn’t
grow up dreaming of winning an Olympic
medal because that just wasn’t something
that was on our radar you know major
championships have always been what you
know has been the greatest achievement
in the game of golf but once you’re
there and you get into that Olympic
Spirit um you know it really you know it
it sort of you know I don’t know that
something happens inside of you and you
know you really you really get a sense
for what it means to so many people and
you know as Shen said um you know even
to just be able to call yourself an
Olympian but then to if you were able to
to win a medal that would be you know
incredibly
special roran I I guess you’re not too
happy about the way the early part of
the season has gone and after the meat
grinder of the last two and a half weeks
is this you said no pressure is this a
week where you can just relax and kind
of let things maybe fix fix some things
yeah um yeah a little bit I don’t think
I don’t think there’s things that need
to be fixed but I think a week like this
to yeah to to sort of relax and play
under
a yeah not you know maybe not the the
amount of pressure the stress that that
we’ve both been under the last couple of
weeks um I think is a is a nice thing so
and it’s it’s nice to be able to rely on
a teammate every now and again and um
you know bail you out of trouble or or
know that
you know you don’t have to you know play
perfect golf because you’ve got someone
right there beside you so yeah it’s a
it’s a nice week for that you know
there’s still a lot of FedEx Cup points
on offer and you know we we know if we
have a good week this week you know
that’ll get us both up the you know the
the fatex Cup list and and and put us in
a really good spot going into the into
the
summer question hey hey there um BR
Martel with ap so Rory you mentioned you
thought it would be fun to play here and
you mentioned the novelty aspect is
there some practical professional
application too in terms of maybe you
guys will be teammates again in the
future or just you know more team
golf I think I think it’s just
um I just thought it would be fun to do
you know going and playing here with a
friend and um enjoying a week in New
Orleans and going to eat some good food
at night and try to play some good golf
during the day I thought it’ be a fun
week okay ready finish up here um are we
allowed to know any of the reservations
um I don’t know them I I just go where
I’m told me I just go where I’m told
this week and I just do what I’m told so
Ro’s the captain team
captain uh and then for both of you um
you know report came out today that the
equity numbers uh might be released to
you guys today I guess the question is
what’s enough you know what what’s a
number that will make you guys feel
validated for staying you know
considering the live
payouts I think the one thing we’ve
learned in Gulf over the last two years
is there’s never
enough Rory just curious um had you been
close to coming here before or playing
in this tournament before yeah a few
people have asked me over the years
um Bubba Watson hunted me for years to
come play this with him and I ply
declined every time not cuz I don’t
like’s probably like number one on
people’s list to come play her with when
you see you know when you’re out there
playing with um but no I just it was
never part of you know I guess it never
lined up with with my schedule and just
wasn’t and then you know what this is
you know this is my fourth week in a row
and it’s not you know it’s not as if I
haven’t played four weeks in a row
before um but for a fourth tournament in
a row something like this that is a
little more relaxed not as not as much
pressure um you know I thought it would
be a good thing to
do just one last one here MK Shane you
just mentioned that he’s on a lot of
guys list to play as a team so why are
you really excited that he picked
you why am I excited that he picked me
he obviously thinks I’m I’m good enough
to be a teammate and come out here and
compete with I think you know I think
we’re good for each other I think we’ll
be good for each other on the course um
we’ll enjoy doing it which is a big part
of it as well like you know it’s um
whatever about get out there and
competing it’s you know you want to
enjoy it as well but at the end of the
day then when it comes to we are
competitors and I think we’re two very
competitive people and when we get to
the first on Thursday we’re there for
one reason and yes it’ll be to enjoy it
but it’ll be to give ourselves a chance
to win a tournament all right gentlemen
thank you for the time best of luck this
week thank you