Q. Back here in Abu Dhabi, how are you feeling?
SHANE LOWRY: Good. I've had a few weeks off. It's nice to come back and always nice to come back to the Middle East here and a place where I've played well and had some success. It's part of the world I love having to play golf and having to be here.
Q. You were on the range yesterday. Reunited with your clubs?
SHANE LOWRY: Yeah, my clubs were delivered this morning. I was panicking yesterday. I was trying to get a makeup set built. All is good now, and I had my own set for the Pro-Am today and ready to go.
Q. I know this isn't where you won in 2019 but how does this measure up to the Abu Dhabi Golf Club?
SHANE LOWRY: Yeah, the two are obviously very different venues. Abu Dhabi Golf Club was brilliant and I had a lot of great success there and won that tournament. I played here the last two times, I've played pretty well here.
I didn't finish the tournament off as well as what I would have liked but never been in the final group both Sundays in those two years. So if I can do something similar to that this year and finish the tournament off better, you never know.
But it's a great venue, the weather is obviously pretty hot here this week, different in January, but the course is in of good condition as I've seen a golf course and it should be a great week.
Q. It's the only place I've ever been on where players are praying for more wind.
SHANE LOWRY: To be honest, it's one of these courses where no wind, it plays pretty easy. And you get a five- to ten-mile-an-hour wind, and it can make it a little more difficult. It probably does need a little bit of wind to test the golfers a little bit. But it is what it is. We take the conditions we get. It will cool you off a little bit. That will be nice.
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