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DUBAI DUTY FREE IRISH OPEN HOSTED BY THE RORY FOUNDATIONJuly 9, 2017Matthew SouthgatePortstewart, County Londonderry, Northern Ireland Q. Fantastic Irish Open for you, three dropped shots across four rounds of golf and a 66 to finish, you must delighted. MATTHEW SOUTHGATE: I'm absolutely thrilled to bits. That's some of the best golf I ever played today. I really stuck to it out there and I just made it so easy. I wasn't sweating over any par putts, and I've done my job as well as I could today. I'm really completely over the moon. Q. What's the most pleasing thing about the game over the last four days? MATTHEW SOUTHGATE: All of it. I've driven the ball really well. And I've done some work with Titleist at the start of the year to just tweak my driver and we went a little bit longer in the shaft, which they were a bit skeptical about doing, but something I had done as an amateur. And the first ball I hit in Dubai with the new driver, I thought, wow, that's how I used to hit it. It's taken me a few months to get it bedded in but I feel confident with that at the minute. This afternoon, I've driven it as good as anyone can drive it. Just every single drive's come out completely neutral. I mean, there's not really many golf courses in the world that are that difficult, if you slap-bang it in the fairway, and I'm not a short hitter. So we've taken the course apart, really, with driver this week. Q. This event has been added to the Rolex Series schedule so a lot more prize money and points on offer. All bodes well looking to The Open in two weeks. MATTHEW SOUTHGATE: Yeah, I think so. I think the big thing for me after last year, I wanted to prove to everybody that it wasn't a fluke and that I sort of belong out here playing, and that's obviously like a personal issue we've made; I've got that in my head when I'm playing. The finish looks like it's definitely going to keep my card at least for next year, which at this level of golf I think is an incredible achievement for everybody. I'm absolutely thrilled to bits to be able to be exempt into all of it again for next year. Feel like a really lucky guy for that. I love my job and I love all the people around the golf tour, and very blessed to be playing out here and doing this. So I'm over the moon this week. FastScripts Transcript by ASAP Sports   |
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