{"id":57289,"date":"2025-04-28T11:13:09","date_gmt":"2025-04-28T11:13:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/57289\/"},"modified":"2025-04-28T11:13:09","modified_gmt":"2025-04-28T11:13:09","slug":"rory-mcilroy-explains-plan-for-golf-break-after-poor-finish-at-zurich-classic-of-new-orleans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/57289\/","title":{"rendered":"Rory McIlroy explains plan for golf break after poor finish at Zurich Classic of New Orleans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rory McIlroy has explained his decision to take a week off after the Northern Irishman and Shane Lowry tied for 12th at the Zurich Classic of New Orleans on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>The duo went into the final day five strokes behind Andrew Novak and Ben Griffin, who went on to secure glory.<\/p>\n<p>But McIlroy and Lowry struggled, with the pair forced to settle for 12th after finishing six shots behind their American rivals.<\/p>\n<p>It was McIlroy&#8217;s first tournament since winning the Masters at Augusta on April 13.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"dedbe\" data-rm-shortcode-id=\"8327aae7cd7a86327e025e0d17da140b\" data-rm-shortcode-name=\"rebelmouse-image\" class=\"rm-shortcode rm-lazyloadable-image \" lazy-loadable=\"true\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg'%20viewBox='0%200%205444%203629'%3E%3C\/svg%3E\" data-runner-src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/1745838788_754_rory-mcilroy.jpg\" width=\"5444\" height=\"3629\" alt=\"Rory McIlroy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Rory McIlroy has explained his decision to take a week off after the Northern Irishman and Shane Lowry tied for 12th at the Zurich Classic of New Orleans on Sunday<\/p>\n<p>REUTERS<\/p>\n<p>Both the 35-year-old and Lowry, 38, will skip the CJ Cup Bryon Nelson this week before returning for the Truist Championship at Philadelphia Cricket Club.<\/p>\n<p>McIlroy, looking back on his performances in New Orleans, reacted by saying: \u201cYeah, it&#8217;s been a fun week.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think when we went back out after the delay, we felt like we still had a good chance, and we didn&#8217;t make birdie on 11, and then we bogeyed 13 again for the second time this week.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYeah, just didn&#8217;t really have any momentum from when we started back up again, and it was difficult to just sort of get anything.<\/p>\n<p><strong>JUST IN: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gbnews.com\/sport\/football\/arne-slot-real-name-liverpool-premier-league-title\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Arne Slot&#8217;s real name stuns Liverpool fans after Reds crush Tottenham to win Premier League title<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cOverall, it&#8217;s been a good week. It&#8217;s always good to team up with this man. We&#8217;ve had fun.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>McIlroy then explained his decision to take a week off from golf. He continued: \u201cI&#8217;ve got to just take a little bit of time here.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt&#8217;s nice to have a week off, and reset and try to get some practice in.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI feel like it&#8217;s like two practice weeks coming up in a way with next week at home and then Truist, as well, in some ways.<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ MORE: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gbnews.com\/sport\/boxing\/anthony-joshua-chris-eubank-jr-conor-benn\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Anthony Joshua makes feelings clear after watching Chris Eubank Jr win Conor Benn boxing fight<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"d8a72\" data-rm-shortcode-id=\"d4ce05a9865babe30f20a0f2ad61665c\" data-rm-shortcode-name=\"rebelmouse-image\" class=\"rm-shortcode rm-lazyloadable-image \" lazy-loadable=\"true\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg'%20viewBox='0%200%206781%204521'%3E%3C\/svg%3E\" data-runner-src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/1745838788_636_rory-mcilroy-shane-lowry.jpg\" width=\"6781\" height=\"4521\" alt=\"Rory McIlroy Shane Lowry\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Rory McIlroy and Shane Lowry could only tie for 12th at the Zurich Classic of New Orleans<\/p>\n<p>REUTERS<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYeah, I&#8217;m looking forward to a couple of days off and then sort of kicking the feet up and trying to recharge the batteries a little bit.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As for Lowry, the 38-year-old insisted he was pleased with the duo&#8217;s performances at the event &#8211; despite their failure to retain the title they won last year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think we played all right, just today nothing really happened for us, and then after the delay, everything that could go wrong did go wrong,&#8221; he stated.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI had a great week. I&#8217;m happy my man came here this week, and we had a great time, and it was fun.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>LATEST SPORTS NEWS:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, both Griffin and Novak were delighted with their triumph on Sunday as they claimed the first PGA title of their careers.<\/p>\n<p>Griffin said: \u201cI think for both Andrew and I, it felt like it was only a matter of time out here.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe both put ourselves in the mix a bunch, especially this season, but even going back to last season.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Yeah, just a lot of hard work between both of us, and for me personally, it means the world to finally get it paid off or to finally get it done. <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"c37fb\" data-rm-shortcode-id=\"2c122e4d52f645286371a040745817c4\" data-rm-shortcode-name=\"rebelmouse-image\" class=\"rm-shortcode rm-lazyloadable-image \" lazy-loadable=\"true\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg'%20viewBox='0%200%208640%205760'%3E%3C\/svg%3E\" data-runner-src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/andrew-novak-ben-griffin.jpg\" width=\"8640\" height=\"5760\" alt=\"Andrew Novak Ben Griffin\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Andrew Novak and Ben Griffin won the Zurich Classic of New Orleans<\/p>\n<p>REUTERS<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I couldn\u2019t think of a better guy to get it done with, right here with Andrew.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou\u2019ve got to stay aggressive down the stretch. That was huge for us [on 17]. Eighteen, it\u2019s still not the easiest finishing hole when you\u2019re trying to lock up a Tour win. So really proud of the way we both executed shots on 18.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rory McIlroy has explained his decision to take a week off after the Northern Irishman and Shane Lowry&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":57290,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4106],"tags":[2826,12,93,79,16,15,978,727],"class_list":{"0":"post-57289","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-golf","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-sport","11":"tag-sports","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom","14":"tag-us","15":"tag-us-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114415298420316615","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57289","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57289"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57289\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}