Q. You've broken through and won a couple of tournaments of the last couple of years. Do you carry a different mindset into the final group previous to winning Nissan a couple of years ago?
KIRK TRIPLETT: The only difference is now I know that I've done it before. Before the first victory, I had to challenge myself and accept the challenge and say: Yes, you can win it even though you've never done it before. At some point you have to take that leap. I'm still trying to do it the same way.
Winning the two tournaments I've won has not made me go, oh, no, I was doing it all wrong before. I was doing it the right way before. I just wasn't getting the job done.
Q. So there's no change in your confidence from when you didn't win before to now?
KIRK TRIPLETT: Well, I think there's change in my confidence. There's no change in any game plan and what I'm going to go out there and try and do.
TODD BUDNICK: If we could just go through your birdies and the eagle.
KIRK TRIPLETT: I birdied No. 3. I hit a pitching wedge about 12 feet.
I eagled 5. I holed a bunker shot from pin-high right over there.
I birdied 6. I had about an 8-footer there.
8, I hit a driver and a 3-iron over the back of the green. Chipped down to a foot.
11, I hit a wedge about 20 feet behind the hole from out of the trees and made a difficult putt. That's a tough pin. I just kind of lobbed it down there and it went in. That's one that really kind of got me going. I turned a poor tee shot into a birdie.
14, I hit a chip shot up about three feet and made that.
16, I hit a 9-iron about eight feet.
17, I hit a 9-iron about four feet.
TODD BUDNICK: Well, thank you very much, Kirk, and good luck tomorrow.
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