Rory McIlroy and Shane Lowry have confirmed that they are going to return to defend their title on the PGA Tour’s Zurich Basic of New Orleans this April, dwell on Sky Sports activities.
McIlroy made his debut within the occasion alongside Lowry in final 12 months’s contest, following a “drunken lunch” between the pair after Europe’s 2023 Ryder Cup success, with the impressing to say a play-off victory over Chad Ramey and Martin Coach.
The win marked McIlroy’s twenty fifth PGA Tour victory and Lowry’s first win since his 2022 BMW PGA Championship on the DP World Tour, with the pair now returning for this 12 months’s occasion at TPC Louisiana from April 24-27.
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Highlights from day 4 of the Zurich Basic of New Orleans from TPC Louisiana in Avondale
Victory of McIlroy final 12 months was certainly one of 4 worldwide titles in 2024, together with the Wells Fargo Championship in his subsequent begin and two DP World Tour victories, whereas the world No 2 gained his first look of the 2025 PGA Tour season on the AT&T Pebble Seashore Professional-Am.
McIlroy completed two strokes away from Lowry in California, who completed solo second, with the pair each making spectacular begins to the PGA Tour season forward of being doubtless Ryder Cup team-mates late this 12 months at Bethpage Black.
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“Rory and Shane seemed to truly enjoy their experience in New Orleans, and it showed in their play,” event director Steve Worthy. “Their history with team golf couldn’t have hurt, and we are excited to have them back in a Ryder Cup year.”
The Zurich Basic of New Orleans comes two weeks after The Masters, the place McIlroy will goal to finish the profession Grand Slam and Lowry chases a second main victory, and the week after the RBC Heritage at Hilton Head.
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Have a look again at the most effective of Rory McIlroy’s 4 worldwide wins in 2024 – the Hero Dubai Desert Basic, the Zurich Basic of New Orleans, the Wells Fargo Championship and the DP World Tour Championship
How does the occasion work and what’s the format?
The 2024 occasion noticed 80 two-man groups function in fourballs through the opening spherical, the place gamers every play their very own ball and the most effective rating on every gap from the pair goes in the direction of the group whole, then switched to foursomes play for the second spherical.
Foursomes sees every group use one ball, with one participant hitting tee pictures on all of the odd-numbered holes and the opposite on the even-numbered ones. The gamers then hit alternate pictures, with the overall strokes taken ensuing within the group’s rating for that gap.
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The highest 33 groups and ties progressed to the weekend, the place the groups revert to fourballs for the third spherical and foursomes for Sunday’s closing spherical. The gamers within the successful group each obtain a two-year winner’s exemption on the PGA Tour and the two-man groups share FedExCup factors.
No group has gained back-to-back editions of the event because it turned a group occasion in 2017.
Can McIlroy and Lowry defend their title? Watch the PGA Tour’s Zurich Basic of New Orleans from April 24-27 dwell on Sky Sports activities. Not bought Sky? Get Sky Sports activities or stream with no contract on NOW.
