WGC DELL TECHNOLOGIES MATCH PLAY

March 23, 2022

Will Zalatoris

Austin Country Club

Quick Quotes

Q. How important was it to get that first win today?

WILL ZALATORIS: Yeah, it's huge. It kind of obviously a nice day, had a good off week last week with Josh, kind of hit the reset button a little bit. I've already seen some progress, so obviously it's nice to kind of get off to the start that I did early on in the match, just played solid.

It's not easy out here, that's the beauty of match play is we can kind of tuck pins in some spots that we don't see week in, week out, but the tougher the better.

Q. What did you hit the reset button with last week?

WILL ZALATORIS: I actually ended up throwing a new putter in the bag. The inconsistency was driving me nuts. Having days of plus four and other days of minus three. Basically the same, just a little bit different, but just so much easier.

So I think it's something that I'm, obviously I'm really excited about going into the next couple weeks.

Q. I talked to Josh earlier, he said that you have to really work on taking it outside a little more because you tend to rip it inside. What are some drills that you guys are working on to help with that?

WILL ZALATORIS: Just sticking tees on the inside. It's pretty easy to do that with an arm lock. Kuch, when he was putting conventionally arm lock he would aim way left, take it inside and basically push all his putts. Bryson gets super vertical to kind of counter that. So I'm pretty excited, obviously, with kind of the stuff that we've done.

Q. What was the biggest thing that you saw, did you see a lot of the fruits of your labor today?

WILL ZALATORIS: Yeah, I didn't -- I literally didn't hit a putt that wasn't end over end. So obviously playing as good as I did, but even the putts today that just barely lipped out or barely missed, every single putt had a chance. I think that's something that I'm taking kind of more out of than even the putts that I made.

Q. Obviously this isn't anything like Augusta, but are you doing anything to start preparing mentally or physically for Augusta?

WILL ZALATORIS: Yeah, I mean, making sure that the draw with the driver's there. I don't typically hit a ton around there, but I don't really draw the driver at all. So just making sure that I've got that in the bag for a couple holes that are there that -- like 13's a difference maker and I've kind of had to eat the crow of playing that hole in even par which is a difference maker in me winning and not winning last year.

So besides that, just we're -- fortunately at Dallas National they have got a green that they run about 14, 15 the week before and hit a bunch of putts that obviously have a ton of break in them.