Shane Lowry on majors and Ryder Cup being ‘full focus’ in 2025 with returns to Royal Portrush, Oakmont and Augusta

Shane Lowry has excessive hopes of including to his main tally and securing a Ryder Cup return in 2025, regardless of having “pure hatred” for one of many programs on this 12 months’s roster.

Lowry is again contained in the world’s high 20 after a robust begin to the season and has 4 high 10s in majors since his breakthrough success at The Open in 2019, the place he produced a dominant six-shot win over Tommy Fleetwood at Royal Portrush.

The ultimate males’s main of the 12 months returns to the identical Northern Eire course this July, stay on Sky Sports activities, whereas the US Open is again at Oakmont for the primary time since Lowry squandered a four-shot lead through the ultimate spherical of the 2016 contest

Quail Hole Membership hosts the PGA Championship, the venue the place Rory McIlroy has gained the Wells Fargo Championship 4 instances and can be one of many favourites, with it additionally being the venue Lowry is least assured about difficult for main glory.

“Three out of four major venues this year I love,” Lowry instructed the Sky Sports activities Golf podcast. “I do not also have a love-hate for Quail Hole, it is only a pure hatred for it! I’ve by no means had an excellent end result there.

“Going again to Oakmont, it is a course that I felt like I ought to have gained the US Open that 12 months. However I realized quite a bit from that and I felt like I used that at Portrush. Would I give Portrush for that? No, completely not, however I really feel like possibly I ought to have two [wins].

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“I haven’t been back there [Oakmont] since 2016 and I feel like my game’s changed a lot for the better since then. That’ll certainly be a tournament that, if I go there with a little bit of confidence, feeling my game’s okay, you never know what could happen that week.”

Lowry’s consistency has seen him submit top-25 finishes in three majors throughout every of the final 4 seasons, with the Irishman ending tied-sixth on the 2024 PGA Championship – having equalled the bottom spherical in main historical past on day three – earlier than claiming a share of sixth at The Open.

“I certainly don’t go to make up the numbers!” Lowry added. “If you ask me now at this stage of my career, the reason I put that work in is, wth all due respect to the other events on the PGA Tour and DP World Tour, it’s all a build-up to the majors and the Ryder Cup.

“I’ve these 5 dates circled in my calendar they usually’re the weeks that I need to carry out my greatest. I simply love the strain of them, I really like how tough they’re, and I really like the whole lot about them. I really feel like lots of my good performances over the past variety of years have been in majors.

“I all the time say my two favorite weeks of the 12 months usually are not even tournaments, they’re the week earlier than The Masters and the week earlier than The Open, as a result of I really like the build-up and preparing for these tournaments.

“I’m very fortunate that I have one, that I’ve got a Claret Jug in my house and I’d love to win one more [major]. If I was to win one more, I’m sure I’m going to be greedy and want one more after that as well!”

Take heed to the complete Shane Lowry interview on the newest version of the Sky Sports activities Golf podcast, hosted each week by Jamie Weir. Subscribe now on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or Spreaker, whereas vodcast editions might be discovered on the Sky Sports activities Golf YouTube channel.

Lowry appears to be like to kickstart a ‘good 12 months’

Lowry heads into the Florida Swing having impressed on the AT&T Pebble Seaside Professional-Am final month, the place he completed two strokes behind good good friend Rory McIlroy within the PGA Tour Signature Occasion after a final-round tussle between the pair.

“I don’t say it in a negative way about my own game, but I think when someone like Rory rocks up with his ‘A’ game, he’s impossible to beat,” Lowry admitted about his runner-up end. “I do think he was very close that day. He played unbelievable golf.

“He had the ball on a string off the tee and simply did the whole lot proper. He holds them nice putts on the proper time. I feel, if something, I used to be good for him that ultimate spherical, possibly taking part in collectively. I form of felt at instances that it did not really feel like we had been going toe-to-toe for a giant PGA Tour occasion on a historic venue.

“My one goal was to try and not to hand him the tournament and make him win the tournament. I feel like I kind of did that. It was good to see him getting a win. I was disappointed for myself, but I’m still happy with my week. It’s hopefully going to kickstart a pretty good year for me.”

McIlroy’s victory at Pebble Seaside was certainly one of 4 European winners in a five-week stretch on the PGA Tour, with Lowry – seeking to discover his personal success over the approaching months and cement his place in Europe’s Ryder Cup squad this September.

“I obviously want to be a part of it,” Lowry stated in regards to the prospect of taking part in at Bethpage Black, stay on Sky Sports activities. “I don’t just want to be in the team – I want to be a part of a winning team and I want to be able to help the team.

“I feel it will be one of many nice Ryder Cups of all time and I simply hope Europe can come out on high.”

Watch Shane Lowry in action throughout 2025 live on Sky Sports. Lowry next features on the PGA Tour at the Cognizant Classic in The Palm Beaches, live on Sky Sports Golf on Thursday from 4pm. Get Sky Sports activities or stream with no contract on NOW.