'I'll have to check in with him and see if we can do it again.'
As she was wrapping up her Meijer Classic victory, Leona Maguire passed on her best wishes, on the CBS broadcast, to Rory McIlroy.
Ultimately, it was not to be for McIlroy at the US Open - he finished second to Wyndham Clark - but Maguire what he and other leading Irish golfers meant to her. She said,"Obviously, Rory has been incredibly impressive, everything that he's done throughout his career."He was kind of gone out of junior golf in Ireland when I was growing up, but I think yes, Rory has been a big inspiration for a lot of people. The big one for me has been Padraig Harrington. I had a few really key up-and-downs this week especially on 17, both Friday and Saturday.
"All the Irish guys are great. I think it's nice being from that sort of close-knit community, Shane [Lowry] and Padraig, Paul McGinley. They're there to give me advice or give Dermot [Byrne, my caddy] advice whenever we need it, so it's nice to have that sort of camaraderie give the people at home more to cheer about."
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