And you basically have to have the approach that - I mean they don’t lip in. But I don’t putt on this kind of surface at all, ever. You think after 12 years, 11 years, I’d figure it out. JOHN SMOLTZ: Yeah, it’s pleasing to my eyes. I guess anybody who plays this game has a course that they love but it just kind of seems to eat their lunch is this one yours? He made more in the back nine of his round yesterday than I made in my entire tournament, even though my score I think I finished even par for the tournament doesn’t reflect the fact that I didn’t make - gotta make birdies. So you’ve got to - he was making 10 in one round. That’s what’s amazing about this format, is I made like I said I made three bogeys all week, I think, and only made four or five birdies. JOHN SMOLTZ: I think I set the record for the most pars in three rounds, too. You went 54 holes out here without 3-putting, that might be a first. So playing against him is I knew going in this that lead wasn’t anything I could do anything with. Mardy hits the ball so far and he has such great touch. Once he got it, once he knew past 9, Kyle could never really close the gap. And he had - early on it was more of a feel, I thought, that he was trying to gain. He said that’s the only hole he doesn’t like is the first hole. JOHN SMOLTZ: I thought he won the tournament on the first hole when he hit his second shot in the water, made 15-foot for bogey goes from zero to minus 2, and all of a sudden Kyle had a five-footer or six-footer for birdie, early on. Today he was pretty solid again once today. And yesterday was one of those rare - that was unbelievable yesterday. What was it like, you played enough golf with Mardy to see his game. He didn’t change his theory, and it ended up working out. And it’s just one of those deals where Mardy played fearless. I started off 14-for-14 and then hit one in the water on the 14th hole. JOHN SMOLTZ: Like I said, I told my caddie Greg, I want to have 18 tries at birdie and see what happens. And that’s not usually your style, from what we’ve seen over the years? Yesterday you seemed a little frustrated with a few shots today. But there was just no way those putts, they just weren’t falling. And unless you make birdies, I had a lot of chances to change the environment early on, and that’s what I was hoping to do, is put some pressure early. I mean, you play this golf course, I striped it pretty much all day, except for one hole. So 16 tries at birdie today and I only made two of them.Īnd that’s the difference. I only made three bogeys all week, and yet the birdies just didn’t fall. JOHN SMOLTZ: My biggest thing is I can’t believe how good I hit it and how poorly I scored. Had a couple of guys ahead of you that had a pretty sizable lead when the day started. THE MODERATOR: John, take us through your round today: Third-place finish 21 points it looks like today.
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