THE 150TH OPEN

July 15, 2022

Aaron Jarvis

Mixed Zone

Q. Your best effort so far in the pro events?

AARON JARVIS: Yeah.

Q. What do you make of it? Pretty fun?

AARON JARVIS: Yeah, it was great. The whole day, I just had that mindset of going out and playing some golf today and making a charge to hopefully make the cut. I'm on the number right now, so we'll see. But it's been a good day.

Q. What are your thoughts on if you will make it?

AARON JARVIS: I will be proud of myself.

Q. Did you eyeball it at all to see if that number will stay?

AARON JARVIS: I did. I had a three-putt on 17, but besides that, I knew that even or 1-under hopefully will get in. We'll see what the weather does.

Q. Either way, what do you think of the effort to get it back to even?

AARON JARVIS: It was great. I stuck with the same process and went out and had a good game plan with my caddie and just stuck with it. Made some more putts today than yesterday. It was good.

Q. Do you have a local caddie?

AARON JARVIS: I do, yeah.

Q. A guy who caddies here all the time?

AARON JARVIS: Yes.

Q. What's his name?

AARON JARVIS: His name is Kevin. I forgot his last name.

Q. How did you find him?

AARON JARVIS: Through a guy named Paul Woodhouse, who's a member of the R&A. He's Scottish and lives in the Cayman Islands. He hooked me up with Kevin, who's helped me a lot. He uses Kevin here all the time.

Q. Any advice that really helped?

AARON JARVIS: Yeah, just stuff around the greens and lines off the tee. Any local knowledge is great.

Q. Either way, how do you look at this whole experience of having played in the Masters, having played in the Open, just these opportunities? Have you been able to enjoy it at all?

AARON JARVIS: I've enjoyed every moment. It's hard to tell someone's enjoying just because you're so focused and ready to play golf. I've enjoyed every moment. Throughout the whole Masters and here, I've learned a lot, which has been good. Hopefully I can continue to just keep playing my game and get back into these tournaments.

Q. What do you think you have learned?

AARON JARVIS: Just more of the mental side of it than anything. If you can step up and hit a shot in front of the crowds here, then you can do it with no crowd. I think that's probably one of the biggest parts.

Just knowing that you don't have to change much to your game and you can go out and compete with these guys.

Q. Did you say your next event is the Western Amateur?

AARON JARVIS: Yes, Western Amateur.

Q. When is that?

AARON JARVIS: From now it's been a week and a half. Don't know the exact dates, but it's up in Chicago, Illinois. So that will be a good one.

Q. Do you know the course?

AARON JARVIS: I do not know the name of the course.

Q. But it's in Chicago outside?

AARON JARVIS: Yes. I'll find that out.

Q. Then after that, back to school?

AARON JARVIS: Yeah, I'm going to go to Vegas a little earlier and settle into a house and stuff and get ready for school and see what I need to do. Then I leave like a week after school starts for Paris for the World Team Amateur. That will be a good one.

Q. Is it your intention at this point to stay all four years at UNLV?

AARON JARVIS: Yeah, right now I don't know what's happened with the golf world itself, but I think, yeah, that's the goal. Get the degree and go from there. Obviously play professional golf, but we'll see what happens with the golfing world right now.

Q. And just last thing, can you describe that stretch? I guess you made three birdies in a row, right?

AARON JARVIS: Yeah.

Q. Was it 8, 9, and 10?

AARON JARVIS: 7, 8, 9.

Q. And you made no bogeys until 17?

AARON JARVIS: It was good. Just played solid. Just stayed patient. Made a couple of par putts on the front, which is huge. Yesterday I struggled the first five holes, so it was good to just get through those holes even, and I knew I could give myself good looks on 7 throughout the whole back nine. So that's what I did.

Q. On 17, you just left yourself too long of a first putt?

AARON JARVIS: Yeah, I mean, I just didn't hit my wedge hard enough, and it came up short.

Q. Like 60 feet or something?

AARON JARVIS: And then just had five feet to go. It is what it is. Needed to make par or birdie on the last, and that's what I did.

Q. On 18, were you purposely driving left of the green there?

AARON JARVIS: I was not. I was aiming more to the left side for sure. Just to give myself a better angle to the pin.

Q. How was it playing with him (indicating)?

AARON JARVIS: It was great. I've known him for a while now just going back a couple years, and I had dinner at Augusta, which was pretty good. It was sweet playing with him today. He shot, I think, one bogey and was 8-under or something like that, 6-under he shot. So it was a solid round.

Q. I hope I see you tomorrow, man. Congrats.

AARON JARVIS: Thank you.