U.S. AMATEUR FOUR-BALL

May 16, 2022

Carter Loflin

Wells Williams

Country Club of Birmingham

Quick Quotes

Q. Co-medalists yesterday, came in under some significant pressure and you guys delivered. What did you do out there today?

WELLS WILLIAMS: It was kind of funny, after the first hole we got up there and they both striped it down the middle and hit to about six feet, and we were 1-down after 1 and we were sitting there like, oh, my gosh. I don't know, we just kind of -- we really just kind of had some fun out there.

CARTER LOFLIN: Yeah, we were pretty loose. I think last year we played pretty good in stroke play, too, and when we got to match play, we kind of tightened up a little bit, and neither of us had ever been in a USGA match play. We just didn't really know what was going on. But today we were pretty loose, which I think helped out a lot, but mostly like off the tee, both of us were in the fairway all day. That's a big bonus when both guys have a shot at the green it helps out a lot.

WELLS WILLIAMS: We were in the fairway all day, and there was two or three times where we had, what, a six- or seven-footer to save a par, and we made all of them. It worked out good. We never -- once we got ahead, we kept on playing aggressive.

Q. I counted six birdies on the card, so you guys are just birdie machines out there. Is that just hitting the fairways or making putts or both?

WELLS WILLIAMS: The par-5s are gettable, so we had three -- there's three par-5s we played, right? Two.

CARTER LOFLIN: We played two.

WELLS WILLIAMS: Two of them were tap-ins because we were on the green in two. I think we were like an inch on one hole and then you made -- he made two birdies in the first three holes, I think.

CARTER LOFLIN: I don't know, it was mostly, we were just kind of hitting good shots whenever we needed to.

WELLS WILLIAMS: We were just having looks.

CARTER LOFLIN: It was kind of like we'd hit a good shot here and there and we'd capitalize and then everything in between was just kind of so-so, but we always -- today we did a better job of actually taking advantage of our opportunities.

Q. How do you come back out tomorrow and replicate what you've been doing all week?

CARTER LOFLIN: Start over.

WELLS WILLIAMS: Get some rest.

Q. Potentially 36 on deck tomorrow. Do you think your young legs might help you have a little advantage?

CARTER LOFLIN: I'm kind of worried about our caddies.

WELLS WILLIAMS: Our caddie this morning was sitting in the locker room and he was talking about how he didn't know if he was going to make it, his hamstring hurt so bad.

CARTER LOFLIN: He might need to get in the sauna later.