THE PLAYERS CHAMPIONSHIP

March 10, 2022

Anirban Lahiri

TPC Sawgrass

Quick Quotes

Q. How does it feel, the 67?

ANIRBAN LAHIRI: It feels really good. It was nice to actually make some of the momentum putts. Obviously a big bonus when you see a ball disappear from the middle of the fairway. That was really nice on I think it was 6.

But yeah, I think today's round was very close to how I've been playing the last few weeks. The only difference was I managed to keep it clean, and a couple of times that I got out of position, I managed to save par.

Yeah, it's very satisfying. Been working hard on trying to clean up my game, so it was nice to see it come together today.

Q. You said you found something in your practice on Tuesday?

ANIRBAN LAHIRI: No, I think in golf you always feel like you're about to find something or you just found something, but to be really honest, I think it's been a culmination of the last four or five weeks just grinding away and chipping away and trying to remove the little, little things that creep in.

I think the biggest difference was we made a change to the irons this week. I changed the weight on the clubs, and the irons have been my weak link, and they came out much better today.

I feel like my confidence is getting better, which is really positive.

Q. What was the difference between those?

ANIRBAN LAHIRI: It's really something that's minor. I've added maybe 3 1/2 grams of weight to all of my irons. It sounds like inconsequential, but it almost makes a 10-, 12-yard difference in our line. These last couple of weeks especially we've been playing really tough golf courses, and you hit it four or five yards offline and you can make 6 instead of 3. And I had a lot of that happen to me.

So it's frustrating when you know you're not making bad swings and you're not getting the results you want, so it's equally satisfying when it comes together like this.

Q. Was it satisfying you to get to sleep in tomorrow morning?

ANIRBAN LAHIRI: Yeah, that was pushing it. I think. If the camera pans, it's pretty much pitch dark and we only finished 10 minutes ago. Yeah, it was nice to get it in because that weather is not looking nice for tomorrow. It's probably going to be worse than today. At least that's what I'm told.

The last thing I want to do is wake up at 5:00 and come out and wait to hit two shots or three shots and don't know when you're going to do that either because overnight we're going to get rain, too. So glad to have finished my round.