WALKER CUP

May 8, 2021

John Murphy

Mark Power

Seminole Golf Club

Golf Channel Interview

Q. John and Mark, well played. You didn't take a lead until 17. You were 3 down twice, at one point on the 5th and then also on the 12th. How were you guys able to come back?

JOHN MURPHY: I think I said to Mark both times, I just said, we're playing great, we just have to stick to what we're doing. We got a couple bad breaks early on, but let's not try and force anything. We're playing great; this is a golf course of mistakes so let's let them make the mistakes, and I think we stuck to our game plan really well and stayed patient, and proud of Mark here.

Q. Two Irishmen on the team. It's you two; you got to play together this morning. How special is something like that?

MARK POWER: Yeah, it's amazing. Like we played home Internationals tournament in Ireland against different countries, Great Britain and Ireland countries, and we were just talking about it this week, like we played together when we were 15 and 16, five, six years ago now, and just on the first tee, we were like, we're just going to enjoy today because look how far we've come, and why not just shy away from the challenge and just embrace it, and God, we stuck to it today.

The old head in the group, he calmed me down and just said, look, just hit the fairways, hit greens and we'll wear these guys down, and that's what we did.