BMW CHAMPIONSHIP

August 19, 2022

Cam Davis

Wilmington Country Club

Quick Quotes

Q. Cam Davis, 4-under 67 today, 6-under through 36 and moved up that leaderboard a little bit. How was that round today? How would you assess that?

CAM DAVIS: It was really good. I started off really strong. My big issue is getting the ball off the tee around here. It was the same sort of last week, and once I started finding fairways I could start to get a bit of momentum going.

I would say a round of two halves. Found a lot of fairways early on, and then towards the end of the round started finding it a little difficult to get myself in play, but I feel like I'm managing it well enough to not lose too many strokes when things are going wrong.

Then obviously a bonus on 18 with a nice putt and a good shot out of the trees really keeps things moving in the right direction. I'm very happy with 4-under. It's not an easy course, and you feel like you have to play a lot of good golf to keep yourself under par.

Q. The birdie on the last was special, but was that the highlight of the day? Talk us through the eagle on 3.

CAM DAVIS: I mean, 3 was just three shots exactly the way I planned it. It wasn't as exciting I felt like as 18, when you're in the trees, you've got an iffy lie in the rough and you've got to hit a bit of a crowd pleaser shot to get up on the green and pull it off, that's always a lot of fun. I love bending the ball like that when you have to, and yeah, to make the putt on top of that was very cool. I would say that was the biggest rush of the day for sure.

Q. You started on the standings in the 50s and now you're sort of projected inside the 30 right now. How meaningful will it be for you to make it to East Lake and get all the exemptions that go with it?

CAM DAVIS: That would be goal achieved for this year. Last year I got to BMW and didn't quite get to East Lake. This year I wanted to make it one step further forward. All I could do is get myself here and have a chance, and I guess I've still got a chance, so I've just got to keep playing well.

Yeah, two more days of really good, solid work and keeping yourself moving in the right direction, I mean, that's all I can do. If other guys go out and tear it up and I can't keep up with them, then that's the way it is. But I feel like I've got a good opportunity, and I just want to concentrate on what got me to this point on the leaderboard through two rounds.

Q. Not just the TOUR Championship on the horizon but obviously the Presidents Cup standings. After Sunday that number of eight players for the international team. I know it's on your mind, but how do you manage to stay in the present and not get too far ahead of yourself thinking about things like the TOUR Championship and the Presidents Cup?

CAM DAVIS: I mean, a lot of it's out of my hands. There's not a lot I can do other than if I play really good golf and things go my way, and the only way that happens is by playing confident, relaxed, sort of stress-free golf rather than worrying about all these things in the background while you hit every shot.

To be honest, I feel like the Presidents Cup, as much as I want to be there, I feel I'm very much on the outside looking in, and even if I play well I'm still not going to be in the top eight. But hopefully some good consistent play coming down the end of the season here is good enough to catch the eye of someone.

Yeah, we're just going to have to wait and see, but I'm just going to keep doing the day-by-day workout to get myself ready for each round and then go out there and give it my best and we'll see where it puts me in Sunday.

Q. You've mentioned the word "consistent" play. It's been a really consistent season for you this season. What do you attribute that to? Is there a certain area of your game that you've really improved to get to that point?

CAM DAVIS: I think a lot of things have slowly gotten better throughout my game. I think my major thing is that I kind of figured out how I want to play each part of my game and then just stick with it. Like there's no changing how I play the game week to week. There was very much sort of no structure to my game up until I'd say halfway through this season.

But I tried to, from that point onwards, just do everything the same way. Try and hit my irons the same way each week, hit my driver the same way each week, short game and putting, just take the same approach, same practice routine, and just try and get to really know that.

I feel like it makes it a lot easier. If things aren't going well, just keep doing what you're doing. You've decided this is the way you want to do it, so stick with it, and it'll come good again. I think it's taken a little bit of stress off the mind and made the rounds a little bit more relaxing in terms of decision making.

At the same time, it's still a stressful job, and we try to make it as relaxing and enjoyable as possible, and still have work to do that.