NV5 INVITATIONAL PRESENTED BY OLD NATIONAL BANK

May 29, 2022

Harry Hall

Press Conference

HARRY HALL: You know, this year has been a little bit stale as far as performances and outcomes, but, yeah, I played some good golf this week. Played some really good golf.

And to birdie all three of the playoff holes -- I think I shot 30 on the back, too -- some of the best golf I've ever played. Just so solid. Hit some great putts; they went in.

Yeah, I think my best is good enough to beat anybody.

Q. Take us through not just the three playoff holes, but 18, the 72nd hole. You birdie all four in a row. What was going through your mind? Were you just on autopilot at that point?

HARRY HALL: Yeah, when I holed that putt on 17 to win I was so in the zone and didn't really think about anything else other than just playing golf and hitting shots, the process of every one.

Yeah, I didn't think about winning or what it was for. I just -- well, obviously I did, but it was more focused on breathing. That's kind of all I've tried to do the last three hours is do my little breathing routine and execute the shots that I'm trying to hit.

I got so in depth in doing that that it was just another golf shot.

Q. This is the first tournament you came into the final round with the lead or a share of the lead. How much pressure did you put on yourself to not only keep the lead, but come out on top?

HARRY HALL: Not too much. I've shot 1-under on the front and it was bogey-free 1-under and I was a few behind, but I knew I was putting well. I knew I was reading the greens well; all I had to do was keep staying patient.

I did just that. Did just that and made the putts when I needed to and chipped it close when I needed to and hit it close when I needed to.

Q. You said yesterday you don't usually draw back to Wichita too much, but coming into today you had a lot time to wait before your tee time in the afternoon. Did thoughts from your win last year kind of creep in?

HARRY HALL: Didn't think about Wichita at all today. I always try and think about what works, and like I said in my interview yesterday, I played very similar golf when I did win in Wichita just through drawing it off the tee and hitting predominantly fades with my irons. Yeah.

Q. Has it sunk in that you won yet?

HARRY HALL: Yeah. I think no matter the outcome today, I was grateful to be playing in the second to last group. I was grateful for my life off the course, and whatever happened today I was in a good mindset to come off the golf course and still be me and to play next week and still hit that first tee shot next Thursday.

As far as what happened today, it wasn't going to change. Just the way I played in the last few holes there, it was -- I'm really impressed with what I did, and it was almost like everything else but the outcome was the most important thing.

Q. With the win, obviously jump up the points list. How does this help your mentality moving forward for the rest of the season?

HARRY HALL: I might not have to play as many tournaments now. I was going to play 11 in a row, and I still might. I mean, started wearing these G4 shoes about three weeks ago and they're a bit different style, and I feel like I can walk a marathon a day in them.

Yeah, I could play 11 in a row, but right now I'll decide what I'm going to do next week and got the U.S. Open qualifier and The Open qualifier.

But, yeah, just depends on the schedule.

Q. Did you have to validate Wichita's win because you played well, won Wichita, and then didn't start off that well this year? Did you feel like you needed to validate the win?

HARRY HALL: I never thought about validating Wichita at all, to be honest. I know that I haven't played my best golf and I'm not -- I'm very consistently this year in top 30 and 40, but it just hasn't clicked. My game was a little bit far a way.

I don't have a golf coach or anything. I think when my game is on it's great. It was on this week. It hasn't been on for the whole year really as far as the quality that I had this week. I think now is a good time for me to reflect on what I did do this week and keep that quality and don't -- don't detract too far away from that.

I think since Wichita and the end of the season last year I tried to get so much better and working with on my game a lot and do different things and hit it further. That's helped, but it's kind of got me further away from what I really did really well.

So I kind of figured that out and came here this week with a very similar style of game, and I had that last week and I played pretty solid. But this week just holing the putts and getting the job done, I think that's the most important thing for me now, is figuring out why I do certain things and keep doing it.

Q. Birdied 18 in regulation and all three holes in the playoff. That's playing some great golf, the fact that that's it not like you want to where you actually need to make birdies and you did it and you were four for four.

HARRY HALL: Yeah, I think with the back nine and the three playoff holes I was -- I think I was 8-under on the last 12 holes.

I think when you're so engraved in the moment you don't really know you're doing it at the time, and that's kind of how I dealt.

Q. What was harder, Wichita or this one? Or are they completely different?

HARRY HALL: This one. Playing a playoff for starters. I couldn't say any of them were hard, to be honest, because when I play good it's not -- it isn't hard.

But just the fact I had to play three holes against a great player in Nick in front of his home crowd, you know, that wasn't easy.

But I dealt with it well, and played some good golf.