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U.S. AMATEUR CHAMPIONSHIP

August 12, 2019

Michael Thorbjornsen

Village of Pinehurst, North Carolina

Q. Did you hole out on your eagle?
MICHAEL THORBJORNSEN: Yeah. On No. 2 I hit driver, it went really far for some reason, I think like I caught a dry patch just on the left side.

And then I had 181, it was kind of in between clubs. I then chose to take the longer one and the funny thing is right after I hit it, I kind of caught it a little thin, but I still had a divot and everything. I dropped my club, didn't even look at where the ball went, I knew it was going to go over the bunker, but just not what direction. And then I picked up my club, looked at the line of my divot, started walking a little bit and then everyone started yelling, saying it went in. So it was a big surprise.

Q. You didn't see it roll in?
MICHAEL THORBJORNSEN: I did not, no.

Q. You just heard the noise.
MICHAEL THORBJORNSEN: Yes.

Q. So that's exciting. Talk about the rest of your round, how did you feel out there?
MICHAEL THORBJORNSEN: So, basically I played pretty solid, just all around. I was kind of struggling those last four or five holes just with my tee shots. On the front nine I couldn't miss with my driver and then on the back it was, I was having trouble just making contact, it was going way left, way right, high slices and stuff. But I managed to scramble pretty well.

And then another small thing is, putts inside six feet, they can look straight but they can snap just out of nowhere. And I had probably four putts that were missed inside of five feet today and it's kind of frustrating, but at the same time if I can manage to sort that out, then I could go pretty low, I guess.

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