ITALIAN OPEN

September 17, 2022

Lucas Herbert

Marco Simone Golf & Country Club

Quick Quotes

Q. You started the day four shots back and narrowed the gap nicely to two. Are you pleased with your round today?

LUCAS HERBERT: Yeah, I got off to a really good start which I think was key. Sort of going into today, I was thinking I was spotting Rory four shots for the weekend, I thought was very generous to try and chase down. So to get off to that hot start and catch up a lot of the ground that I needed to over the weekend, all pretty quickly was good. A little frustrating coming in. Just obviously the weather was brutal so it was kind of hard to get too upset with it but I probably would have liked a couple less than that. I just thought I played better than that out there.

Q. Speaking of the hot start two, birdies and ab eagle on the front nine, and a bit of a wobble in the middle, what do you think you need to do to get the job done?

LUCAS HERBERT: I don't think I need to do a lot different to be honest. It's just not a golf course that you're going to see a lot of 63s and 62s on. There's going to be a handful of guys that can win tomorrow, probably myself included. You stay solid, probably take care -- there's five or six holes out there that just par is a really good score. You take care of that, try and stay out of the thick stuff too much and hope the putter rolls a couple in, and that's probably the formula.