MASTERS TOURNAMENT

April 14, 2024

Shane Lowry

Quick Quotes

Q. Can you give us your reflections on Masters week?

SHANE LOWRY: Not very good. It's over now. I'm a little disappointed obviously.

Yeah, I played all right golf throughout the week, just made a lot of bogeys, a lot of bogeys. No big mistakes, nothing disastrous, just a lot of bogeys.

Yeah, I just didn't really hole my par putts when I needed to. When you do that early on around this course, you get behind the black ball, and it was just tough.

Q. Do you find every time you come here you learn something else to help you?

SHANE LOWRY: Well, it was the first time I've played the Masters in these conditions, I think, since I've been playing. I think it's as tough a Masters that I've played the weekend on anyway. Yeah, you learn a bit more. Come back next year and see if I can do it again.

Q. How is this week different from the other two American majors, just the experience of it?

SHANE LOWRY: Obviously you're at the same course every time, which is great. I'm getting to a stage now in my career that I'm going back to major venues that I already know, so I feel like I'm getting old. But that's nice, going back to Valhalla this year and back to Pinehurst, back to Troon, so that's nice, and all the golf courses.

But it doesn't really -- obviously Masters week you put a lot of pressure on yourself, it means a lot. But they all mean a lot, to be honest. Every tournament means a lot out here on TOUR.

I think for me this week is probably the most special week of the year. Disappointed not to give it a decent run this year. Yeah, hopefully I have a few more years left of giving it a run out here.

It's over now. I'm going to go back to the drawing board and see what I can do next week heading into Hilton Head.

Q. How did you play 14?

SHANE LOWRY: 14, I played it 4-under this week, and I believe it played quite difficult. Imagine if I didn't play it in 4-under. Seemed to have played that hole better than the par-5s.

Q. Chat with Phil today?

SHANE LOWRY: Yeah, Phil is good. I love playing golf with Phil. He hit some shots that I'm kind of right there enjoying as a spectator more than anything else. When I saw the draw last night, I was excited to go out and play a Masters Sunday with him.

He lived up to his name. He hit some unbelievable shots. He hit a shot from over in the trees on the 8th hole I think only he would go for, let alone pull off, but it was good fun.

Q. The fact that it's been a month now and the other majors are coming fast. How do you regroup?

SHANE LOWRY: Yeah, like the PGA is not far away, but I've obviously got Hilton Head next week and the Zurich Classic a week after, and then I'll have a week off. I don't know what I'm doing actually. Maybe a week or two off after that before the PGA. Yeah, they come fast, and the season comes fast.

Look, the thing I need to take away from this week is I don't think -- yes, I made over par for the tournament, but I don't think I'm playing any bad golf at all. I think I'm thereabouts, I know that. I know that going forward over the summer I've played some good golf over the last few months, and I still have some good golf in me.

Off the tee I'm as good as I've ever been. My iron play is very solid. My short game feels good. It's all about holing a few putts.

I felt great with the putter today, to be honest. I did an hour yesterday afternoon with my coaches, and I found something a little bit. I burnt the edge a lot early on, which is disappointing, but I hit some lovely putts. It was nice to stand over some 20-footers today and feel like I was actually going to hole them. Hopefully I can take that into next week.

Q. You like Hilton Head an awful lot. Does it help you get this out of your system to be able to go to a course that you like so much?

SHANE LOWRY: Yeah, I think it's just the week in general. We share a house with the Fleetwoods next week, both families together, down on the beach in Hilton Head. It's more of treat it as a holiday for the first couple days and then come Thursday we get back to work.

Yeah, I'll be taking a couple of days off before I do anything after this. It's been a long kind of 10, 15 days, getting ready for this and then coming out and playing in this. I'll need a couple days to rest and regroup and get back after it.

Q. You still doing Zurich with Rory?

SHANE LOWRY: I'm still going anyway, hope he is. How is he getting on today? I hope he is. That's the plan.