KITCHENAID SENIOR PGA CHAMPIONSHIP

May 26, 2022

Jerry Kelly

Press Conference

Harbor Shores

JOHN DEVER: Welcome back to the 2022 KitchenAid Senior PGA Championship at Harbor Shores. We are joined by Jerry Kelly.

Thank you for finding us. 69 today with a birdie on 18. Must make you feel good and put you in a good mindset going into tomorrow.

JERRY KELLY: I've had some really bad starts as of late. I've found some things later in the week but it's been too late. Quite a few tournaments. It's been a trying year so far. It started to go that way again. You know, I righted the ship and it really wasn't until a terrible lay-up on 15 are that are are that kind, of, geez, I've been doing that all day.

I've got work to do on my putting and work to do on everything. Yeah, I'll be at the rock pile.

Q. What have you tried to do to shake it up?

JERRY KELLY: Change the mark on my ball. Really, it's swing thoughts and I keep on piecemealing and I just don't get a thorough enough job done.

My swing thoughts were good. My setup thoughts were terrible, and all of a sudden other days, I've set up so well right there and then all of a sudden I move on it. So the swing's bad.

I just haven't been able to really put it together. It hadn't been on autopilot at all. I put new clubs in and that's a big part of it. Different set. Probably four out of the last five weeks. I've settled on a set now and I'm ready to go. But but it got to come mentally I think. I had to clear myself. I had a lot of clutter and feel like Kramer, yeah.

JOHN DEVER: Talk us through the birdie on 18, salvaged the day. You still are in a viable position to keep going forward.

JERRY KELLY: I was hoping, coming into 15, that was like, all right. Let's just get two of these last four and then I had terrible shots on 15 and literally had to make a 3-footer for par. But then, like I said, I kind of found it in the middle of that 15th fairway. I was like, all right, just be fairly safe on this tee shot and I had 4-iron to a back right pin and cut a nice high one in there exactly the way I drew it up. Rolled right by the hole and just had about a 12- footer down the hill, made that one and hit a good shot on the next hole. Just left the putt short. Again, a little fade off the tee. Nice little cut 7-iron to about four feet can didn't quite drain it in the middle but it got in there.

Now I'm looking at the board going, hey, even if they get to five or six, that's fine with me. I've been seven, eight out the last bunch of tournaments. You put me two, three back, I'm fine right now.