Q. Did 10 take anything out of you emotionally? Was it hard to get over that one?
I don't think so, no. Just started to get a little
loose with the swing, just baled out on the tee shot on 11, and I missed
the wedge there. And to be honest, after that we got a really tough break there. The
wind was picking up about 20 miles an hour on the tee. By the time we
got to the green and finished the hole, it had died down. So we caught
that one heavy gust of that front coming through for a good five
minutes, and after that—that's not the tee you want to be stuck on for
that.
Q. I don't know how much you pay attention to everyone else, but
what was the difference in the flight and the punch of you and Justin?
Justin hit it behind the ball on his. He hit it fat.
So I didn't take much off of how he hit his, I just saw that it really
hit a gust and went up. I hit a lot of club trying to punch it real easy and I caught it real
low on the face and it kept it—not thin to where it would spin it,
thin to where it was that low on the face to where it just kind of would
shoot through it. It was way too much club with that, but it shot
through it. So I only flew the pin by 25 yards. But Justin hit his, started behind the ball and he kind of hit it a
little fat. And so it just got up in the air and got hit. I didn't
think much about his shot.
Q. Gave you no help whatsoever?
Well, no, it certainly didn't help.
Q. For someone that tends to make a lot of putts, that's got to be a pretty aggravating back nine?
Yeah, it was, especially on quick greens. This is where I feel really
comfortable. I got mentally off. I got very uncomfortable, didn't put
good, solid
strokes on it. I was very tentative. I was kind of peaking early and
letting the blade stay open on a couple after the first few missed low.
And then I started missing them outside the right side of the hole the
rest of the nine. And then compounding mistakes. That was about as good
of golf I could play on one nine and about as bad
of golf as I could play on the other given how many pars were with lob
wedge in my hand or a reachable par 5. So, yeah, I'm just going to go
back and try and tighten up things on my swing. They got a little loose
in that wind. And then go ahead and hit putts inside ten feet.
Q. You talked about fixing your swing the middle of the round, what
makes you go from comfortable to uncomfortable on the green and how do
you fix that?
Yeah, I don't know. It's rare. Normally I don't get
off that easily. This was, I think, just a fluke day, a fluke hour of
golf, where No. 9—if I make that putt that hole is still really big.
And even with the mistakes on 10, I would be able to get it back by the
putt on 12 or 13. It normally doesn't happen like that. It was just
weird today. I
started to—when I'm working on my putting, right now is something
really tricky to put into action in a tournament round because I was
kind of hitting a little low on the face. So I'm trying to get my
weight more forward and to really compress the ball and get a good
strike on it. And that's something that's hard to trust when you have
to take small strokes. And it was working really well for the first 27
holes. I putted surprisingly well given how it was last week. So I just
need
to get back to what I was doing there which is simplifying the stroke
and just being aggressive with it and not caring about a three‑footer
coming back.
