Eggsplorations: Rory McIlroy discusses golf and growing up in Northern Ireland

The Fried Egg Golf Podcast

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Golf, Sports

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🗓️ 16 July 2025

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

As a special bonus episode ahead of the 2025 Open Championship at Royal Portrush, enjoy an interview with Rory McIlroy from our Eggsplorations feed in March 2024. The greatest golfer in the history of Northern Ireland discusses his roots there, his favorite golf memories growing up, and his favorite courses and earliest memories of Royal Portrush and Royal County Down. Rory fields questions from TPC Sawgrass as he prepped for The Players while Andy Johnson and Brendan Porath were across the Atlantic in his home country acquainting themselves with the golf culture and a few of the world class courses that Rory came to know in his earliest days as a junior standout. He also explains this golden age of pro golf success for the island, which boasts five different major winners since 2007 after a 60-year drought. There’s also plenty of banter and insight into what it was like growing up at Holywood, how different it is now as a big shot on the PGA Tour, and much more.

Transcript

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0:00.0	I misogreen, for example, I'm already upset.
0:02.0	When I find my ball in the bunker, I'm really upset.
0:05.0	And when I find my ball in a...
0:06.0	Fried egg.
0:07.0	Friday egg.
0:08.0	The dreaded fried egg.
0:09.0	Friday.
0:10.0	Friday.
0:11.0	Fried egg lie.
0:12.0	I'm about ready to run off Friday golf podcast. I'm your host, Andy Johnson.
0:42.8	This is a new episode to this feed. I think this is an episode that a lot of people didn't know
0:49.1	existed. About a year and a half ago, when we were in Northern Ireland, we recorded a podcast with Rory McElroy all about Northern Ireland.
1:00.1	We were taking a trip through Northern Ireland, and he was excited to come on and kind of talk about where he grew up.
1:08.7	This first appeared on the Explorations page, the Explorations podcast.
1:14.7	So this is a re-air of our conversation.
1:17.9	It would have been Players Week, 2024.
1:21.2	So there's a little context there of the intro of this podcast.
1:25.2	But we figured this would be a great week to throw this back on the,
1:30.6	on the main feed for all the people that did not hear it when it first aired on the
1:36.8	Explorations feed.
1:38.4	So this is Rory McElroy on growing up in Northern Ireland.
1:41.8	So it's really centered around his childhood and Northern Ireland,
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