{"id":13640,"date":"2025-04-25T12:37:01","date_gmt":"2025-04-25T12:37:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/zurich-classic-rory-mcilroy-and-shane-lowry-six-off-early-pace\/"},"modified":"2025-04-25T12:37:01","modified_gmt":"2025-04-25T12:37:01","slug":"zurich-classic-rory-mcilroy-and-shane-lowry-six-off-early-pace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/zurich-classic-rory-mcilroy-and-shane-lowry-six-off-early-pace\/","title":{"rendered":"Zurich Classic: Rory McIlroy and Shane Lowry six off early pace"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We felt like we left a few shots out there but we were just saying the two foursomes days on Friday and Sunday here are the important days in this tournament,&#8221; added McIlroy, 35.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It&#8217;s important for us to obviously post a good score tomorrow.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Collin Morikawa and fellow US player Kurt Kitayama are in the group sharing third place after a 61, with England&#8217;s Matt Wallace and Danish partner Thorbjorn Olesen a further stroke back.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">England&#8217;s Aaron Rai and American Sahith Theegala shot a 63 with the pairings of Scotland&#8217;s Robert MacIntyre and Belgium&#8217;s Thomas Detry and European Ryder Cup captain Luke Donald and Colombia&#8217;s Camilo Villegas sharing 28th spot with McIlroy and Lowry.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The fourball element sees both players hitting their own ball with the best score counting, while players take alternate shots with one ball in the foursomes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The reigning champions have never successfully defended the Zurich Classic title.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/golf\/articles\/c4g3lznxzv2o\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;We felt like we left a few shots out there but we were just saying the two foursomes days on Friday and Sunday here are the important days in this tournament,&#8221; added McIlroy, 35. &#8220;It&#8217;s important for us to obviously post a good score tomorrow.&#8221; Collin Morikawa and fellow US player Kurt Kitayama are in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13641,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-golf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13640","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13640"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13640\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13642,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13640\/revisions\/13642"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}