‘I played with Rory and Shane growing up, and I’d seen how good they were. I wasn’t beating them. I just wasn’t’

There are worse ways to winter. A couple of months back, Robbie Cannon was in a fourball with Shane Lowry at The Grove XXIII, a small corner of paradise tucked away on the outskirts of Hobe Sound in Florida. The Roman numerals represent the famed jersey number of the uber-private members club’s proprietor, Michael Jordan.