THE MEMORIAL TOURNAMENT PRESENTED BY NATIONWIDE

June 3, 2021

Shane Lowry

Muirfield Village

Quick Quotes

Q. Good start. 3-under 69. Just a few comments about the round.

SHANE LOWRY: Yeah, I'm pretty happy with how I played. I drove the ball very well. Out here you need to be out in the fairway because the rough is so thick and so penal. I'm not sure I was in the rough once today. Couple of fairway bunkers maybe. But, yeah, I was pretty happy how I did. I'm disappointed with my finish. I hit a perfect 9-iron into 17.

And I had a good, I hit a good drive on the last and still struggled, I hit a bad second shot, missed the green. So disappointed after finishing badly, but I'm pretty happy with my score.

Q. How about the changes to the course? Were they dramatic enough to where it kind of levels the playing field whether you played here two, three times or 15 times?

SHANE LOWRY: No, it's still visually similar off the tee. Obviously, 15 is a big change. The golf course is incredible. It's amazing that they have dug the course up and redone it in the last year, it looks like it's been here forever. So, yeah, you still need to know your way around it, but there's a few shots that actually change a little bit. The second shots on some of the par-5s. So, yeah, it's great. Like I said, the rough is very thick, you need to stay out of that. And so that's what I did.

Q. What are you feeling best about as far as what part of your game are you feeling best about?

SHANE LOWRY: I don't want to jinx myself, but I'm driving the ball pretty good at the minute. I think I was pretty good at Kiawah and I just had it on a string out there today. So hopefully I can keep that going.