The Ryder Cup celebration didn’t finish in Rome, a minimum of not for Shane Lowry and Rory McIlroy.

Within the second a part of an interview with The Irish Unbiased, they discuss their flight residence to South Florida after which McIlroy inviting Lowry over for lunch the following day. A bottle of wine was opened. After which one other. And lunch was dinner.

Captain Luke Donald quickly joined them, as did Michael Jordan.

“Rory and Luke began texting him, and the following factor we’re sitting there ingesting with Michael Jordan, simply the 4 of us,” Lowry mentioned. “He’s very a lot a pro-USA man. I believe it was the primary Ryder Cup he hadn’t been to in 25 years, so we gave him a great slagging.”

McIlroy mentioned Jordan stayed from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. Among the many subjects: Pay for play, in fact.

“He instructed a narrative concerning the U.S. basketball workforce, the Dream Staff on the Olympics in ’92. ‘Do you not assume I might have gotten paid to play within the Olympics?’” he mentioned. ”‘These persons are lacking the purpose of what it means.’

“He noticed the long-term worth of profitable an Olympics, and mentioned he ended up doing manner higher than if he had taken cash there after which.”

McIlroy mentioned Lowry desperately needed a photograph of the group, however as a fellow sporting determine, “He doesn’t want that.”

“However … myself, Rory, Luke and MJ sitting round speaking concerning the Ryder Cup,” Lowry mentioned. “Not likely how I envisioned the celebrations.”