Rory McIlroy “carries” Shane Lowry to 25th PGA Tour win at Zurich Classic
The PGA Tour is in New Orleans this week for the only team event on tour, the Zurich Classic.
Despite a tumultuous round by Rory McIlroy and Shane Lowry, the Irish duo came out on top in a playoff over Martin Trainer and Chad Ramey.
It is McIlroy’s 25th career victory on the PGA Tour. Lowry notched his third and his first since winning The Open in 2019. But it was the former that did most of the heavy lifting.
the PGA Tour is in New Orleans this week for the only team event on tour the Zurich Classic despite a tumultuous round by Rory mroy and Shane Lowry the Irish Duo came out on top in a playoff over Martin trainer and Chad Ramy it is melroy’s 25th career Victory on the PGA tour Lowry notched his third and his first since winning the open in 2019 but it was the former that did most of the heavy lifting let’s go and get 400 FedEx Cup points each that’s what we’ve done and I nearly feel a little bit bad taking them because Rory carried me a lot of the way low said with a smile after the win nearly 3 hours before the 7 second hole had been played by all teams trainer and Ramy entered the clubhouse at 25 under par a number of pairs were already at or just below that number with practically an entire round to play yes windy conditions made scoring very difficult as no one would finish any lower a bogey on 17 for mroy and Lowry dropped them one shot off the pace but the northern Irishman made up for it on 18 with a fantastic chip that set up a short birdie putt which Lowry drained to get into the playoff in the playoff Remy and trainers rust showed 2 hours and 54 minutes after they finished their round trainers t-shot missed the Fairway left despite getting a clean light just short of the Fairway bunker Ramy yanked his three-wood well left of the green meanwhile melroy’s tea shot found the Fairway Low’s approach came up just short nestling Into the greenside Bunker but they were still in decent shape trainer chunked his third and Ramy chipped up near the hole leaving a makeable five-footer for par mroy hit a decent bunker shot which left his fellow Irishman with 10 ft for the win but just like much of the week Lowry’s putter failed him he missed the putt just above the hole and it appeared as though a massive opportunity Slipped Away moments later though trainer inexplicably missed his short par putt sealing the victory for mroy and Lowry absolutely amazing we’ve had an awesome week here in New Orleans the crowds all week have been absolutely amazing to get the support that we’ve had out there and to have so much fun while doing it it’s been an awesome week and obviously I feel like it’s just a bonus to win at the end mroy said but couldn’t be better to have this men alongside me to get a PGA Tour win together it likely was not the way they envisioned winning but a victory is a victory however it comes this was mooy’s first time playing in this event he had such a great time and received such a warm welcome that he already let everyone know his future plans it say we’re going to come back and defend next year in a much needed boost Lowry and mroy jumped to 12th and 15th respectively on the FedEx Cup points list with the win
