Shane Lowry spoke to the media ahead of the Wells Fargo Championship, where he will be competing again after a win at the Zurich Classic alongside teammate Rory McIlroy.
yeah I mean there was a lot of obviously I was very happy with the win uh not relief but um you know 400 FedEx Cup points is very welcome at this this stage of the season and uh you know moved up nicely in the FedEx Cup rankings which was really nice and you know we had a great week and we enjoyed it and uh it was lovely to get a win it’s it’s been a while since I’ve won over here so it was it was nice and uh you know we enjoyed it and as far as this week goes I’m here you know I don’t have a great record here haven’t particularly played well here on this golf course but um you know I had that with beill this year as well and I did pretty good that week so yeah I mean obviously you start off every season with TOUR Championship as your one of your goals um and you know that’s obviously well on my sights now and so that’s that’s obviously a big goal for me I’ve I’ve never played in Atlanta I’ve finished 31st a couple of times so um you know to go get there and get there in a good position would be nice um it’s it’s just kind of you know it just it’s just a really good building block for the rest of the summer I think you know even though we’re only in just beginning of May it feel you know the PJ tour season is is you know it’s already half over you know there’s only half a season left so it’s uh you know it comes around thick and fast and these big tournaments come around thicking fast so you know as well as that as I I wasn’t going to be in this week um you know I had been informed I wasn’t going to be getting an invite so uh it got me in this week it gets me in Memorial it gets me in uh Travelers so uh yeah I can plan my schedule pretty nicely which for me was actually it was becoming a bit of a headache because my family go back to Ireland for 10 weeks and I was going to have to stay out here for a little bit longer than I would have liked and been away from them for longer than I normally like so uh yeah it’s it’s allowed me to plan my summer a lot nicer yeah you know I I feel like I’ve been pretty happy with how my season have been going um I gave myself a few chances in Florida to to win I didn’t quite win but I I felt it was trending the right direction and I felt like you know if I just kept doing what I was doing that it wouldn’t be far away obviously um you know to win the team event it was nice having Rory M as your partner and makes things a little bit easier but um yeah it was it’s still very nice to get a win look winning I you know we always saying golf winning takes care of everything and it does you know it kind of it takes care of a lot of things but you know that’s that’s in the past now and you just kind of move on now and you’ve got big weeks coming up like you know obviously this week next week another major um and then before we know we’ll be at Memorial in US Open and uh they just come really fast around this time of the year and it’s it’s kind of a nice time of year to be playing your way into some decent form and and some confidence Yeah we actually I actually I had I went home on the Sunday night he had to go somewhere else on the Monday morning so um yeah I went home Sunday night he went away for a couple of days and we met up on Wednesday night yeah we had a we had a pretty good night Wednesday night we um drank some nice stuff and had a good time and we celebrated our win which you know you should do um uh like I say you know I’ve been on tour I’ve been playing 16 years and I’ve only won seven times so uh you know you got to celebrate the good times too no um I can’t remember saying that but um I I think what was great for Rory and I that week was um and this is how I think of it anyway i’ probably been a little bit hard on myself the few previous weeks and obviously the few previous weeks didn’t go well for him either um and I feel like we played the golf with a lot more freedom that week um and I feel like it’s a lesson for the two of us for the rest of the season to go and play golf how we played that week in New Orleans and I feel like if we can do that we both can be dangerous in the big tournaments so um I just think it’s a the whole week of playing golf with a small in your face playing golf a little bit of Freedom you know goes a long way in this game so I think we both learned a lot and that’s how I feel anyway just when you not results you know obviously I did well around Florida uh you know Honda or cognizant and be Hill had two really good weeks was in the final group all weeks um but then you start to expect that from yourself week in week out Masters didn’t go my way hit and head didn’t go my way so I you I was getting a little bit down on myself my not down on myself but you know I knew my game and a lot of aspects of my game were very good um but I just needed to tidy up some other things and you know when you’re not shooting the scores you feel like you should be shooting it’s it becomes difficult so yeah it just been hard on myself you know uh the days were getting tougher and tougher but yeah New Orleans sort of that first of all how do you rate Roy as a singer uh after the he’s better golford than he a singer you thankfully for him you I guess you willfully set out the singing part I sorry what you intentionally didn’t join in yeah no I couldn’t believe he was doing it to honest I was like I was just standing on the side and yeah he kind of got blindsided into doing it so um fair play to him I don’t know to be honest uh because you know I hadn’t got a great record on Bay Hill but I always felt like Bay Hill is the type of course I should do well on um you know this is obviously this suits longer hitters I’m not like I’m not short but I’m not one of the longer guys um and I just yeah I just feel like I need to not try to be one of the longer here is this week if you you kind of get what I’m saying a lot of holes out here you stand on the te and it makes you want to hit the ball hard off the tee and I feel like if I can put the ball and play and hit the fairways I can be dangerous because my iron play is my strength and um yeah so if I can hit a lot of Fairways this week which is that’s my game plan um you know there’s a lot of bunkers out there like 300 yards that I can carry if I hit a really good one but if I don’t hit a good one it’s going to be in probably bad shape so uh I just need to be wary of that and just play Within Myself this week I feel feel like I’ve I’ve not done that here in the past and you know it’s nice to come in here with four rounds before next week and you just try and play my way into the tournament and give myself a few chances and you know you never know because like I said be hill was a tournament who where I had a much better or much worse record than I do here and uh managed to play pretty well there so um hopefully I can do the same this week
