ARNOLD PALMER INVITATIONAL

March 2, 2023

Nick Taylor

Bay Hill Club and Lodge

Quick Quotes

Q. Good playing. 3-under 69. If we could just get an opening comment on your round.

NICK TAYLOR: Yeah. I hit it nice. Getting off to a good start here is always good. It wasn't too windy. I know tomorrow is going to be pretty brutal, so having a good round this morning I felt like gives me a little bit of a cushion tomorrow.

Hit it really nice, made the putts I kind of needed to, took advantage of some of the good shots on the par-5s, so it was a solid day.

Q. You birdied two of the par-3s, at Bay Hill some of the longest par-3s on TOUR. How important were those birdies?

NICK TAYLOR: Yeah. A couple of 'em are, maybe three of 'em were downwind today, which helps. But two great shots on, I guess it was 7 and 14 and just capitalized on the putts there.

So yeah, really nice to make birdie there. I actually hit a good shot on 17, just misclubbed a little bit there. It's such a fine line landing on the front of the green and just didn't get up-and-down. But played the par-3s well today.

Q. Just lastly, obviously had a great stretch on the West Coast. How important was it to you to continue that form coming into Bay Hill and THE PLAYERS next week?

NICK TAYLOR: Yeah, sticking to kind of the same recipe that we've been doing for four, five months. A week of rest was nice. It was a busy few weeks. Felt good coming in here. It's kind of nice seeing the scores reflect that again.