Adam Scott Thursday Flash Interview 2024 BMW Championship

I I think I played well today um you know I think playing at this altitude and working quite hard on every shot with the numbers just to not make mistakes kept me sharp out there and fell in a good Rhythm quickly didn't make any putts the front but then got a few to go off some good shots on the back and got the momentum going in the right direction I I was a bit surprised how much it played more difficult than I thought it would and I can see now if you're off out there you're going to really struggle because the rough is brutal and uh it's going to be important to hit a lot of Fairways the rest of the week was it good coming back here competing again yeah look I mean I don't think I played particularly well 24 years ago here but it was kind of the start of my career um and my first ever PGA tour start and to think about you know however many events it is that I've played now and and been successful out here for a long time it was inspiring at the time and it's fun it's fun to come back to where it all began what was the hardest thing for you with the altitude today whether it was physical or more mental with the numbers um I I think I did a good job really trusting the numbers that we worked out over the last couple days in practice um maybe only got one wrong into 17 but it's going to happen you're going to make a mistake or two or or just hit a good one and it just doesn't quite go the number you were hoping um but overall if you keep making good swings I think we've got it figured out well enough and if I can keep trusting it give myself enough chances to be around at the end of Sunday so you mentioned your first PGA Tour event was to the international yeah any memories that stand out to you you didn't play that well but anything that kind of comes back to you all these years later well I remember some of the Halls uh you know it's fair it's fair fairly unusual tour type golf course with this kind of elevation change the first hole I mean you just tee off straight down the mountain um the 11th as well is a standout hole here and that hasn't changed much since since they redid the golf course but you know I I remember being around you know all all the players that I'd looked up to my entire childhood was really the memories of of being here and um feeling really not prepared for it to be perfectly honest a bit overwhelming and I think my scores probably reflected that but you know it gave me inspiration to get better and and work on my game and make sure I'm good enough to be out here and I you know I was grateful for the opportunity Jack of the last years toing do you I I think there are so many similarities to mfield Village uh you know which has Jack Nicholas's fingerprints all over it and so does this place um you know with with the elevation the the they have to balance the distance well with um you know the proportions of the course but I think they've done a very very nice job with growing some rough there's plenty of room to hit a fairway but if you miss you're really penalized to the to the right amount and um I think it played very well today hopefully there's no rain because I think if it stays firm it's really going to make us think a lot uh over the weekend it's playing very well and you know happy happy for the club that all the work they've put in on the course got a PGA Tour event back here and one that's you know very important one our season you mentioned it playing a little harder than you thought it would how so exactly I guess I guess when the gun goes off you know it's not like Tuesday and uh every Miss Fairway leads to a quick bogey it seems and uh on Tuesday it was a little easier hitting Fairways and as soon as I missed one today I was you know starting to scramble it it can be quite tricky the rough is so thick sometimes you can't un Advance it sometimes you advance it not to the spot you want and uh chipping out of this thick rough is a bit of a lottery as well so you definitely want to kind of be in Fairways and greens mode to to make it to give yourself enough opportunities to make birdie do you know where you stand in in the FedEx and what you need to do I'm for 41 aren I 41 do you know what you need to finish good yeah I mean I don't know it it moves around so much I mean I I I don't I top five would be is kind of the goal obviously I mean I think a top five would do it so uh anything else you never know I've I feel like I've played on a bubble all year and uh unless I'm running away by six shots on Sunday I'm probably going to be on a bubble H week this week as well if I'm playing good what was the highlight of today's round um I think my iron play really showed up you know felt really good I had it on a good line I mean I did hook one on 16 but um you know it felt really solid like the ball was going where I was looking which felt which felt good because even last week I was struggling approach to the Green stats didn't look particularly good and I wasn't very impressed with myself so that was nice for bub for bubble players like yourself I mean is there a little freedom in that I mean obviously want to get in that top 30 but just kind of like being like all right I can go out there and just well yeah I think I can play with some Freedom this week of course I want to make it to Atlanta uh but making the top 50 is you know like kind of keeping your card in a top player group out here these days and uh you know that's going to set me up for a great year next year so I'm excited about that and I do I do feel like the pressure's a little bit off this week me I think the Highlight was hitting at 430 I'm a 10th by the way forget the iron [Laughter] play okay