How a round with Rory McIlroy and Shane Lowry led to Kevin Chappell’s retirement

PGA Tour winner Kevin Chappell explains how a pairing with Rory McIlroy and Shane Lowry at this year’s Zurich Classic convinced him to hang it up.

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310 starts obviously a very long successful career. What made you come up to decide to step away? I guess it’s been it had been a rough like 5 years. I had a back surgery in 18 then missed all of 19 and then that led right into co and so there was basically you know a year and a half where I didn’t play a lot of competitive golf and I really struggled to like find any form after that. In April I got into New Orleans as an alternate play with Tom Hogi. We get paired with Rory and Shane Lowry and I’m, you know, I wasn’t really prepared, but was excited to be in the event and I’m watching Shane and Rory play and I’m just like, man, that’s, you know, I might not have been ever been Rory, but I certainly was a top 30 player in the world and I’m like, man, the amount of work it’s going to take to get back there and the things I’m going to miss out on, I don’t know that this is worth it to me. And uh so I kind of sat on that thought for the spring and into summer and um took the family over to Europe and played two European tour events or DP World Tour events and uh just was like I think this this is it.