THE PLAYERS CHAMPIONSHIP

March 11, 2023

Adam Hadwin

TPC Sawgrass

Quick Quotes

Q. Let's start with the three birdies in your first six holes coming out of nine holes already in the morning. The fact that you get off to a start like that, how did you feel with the start?

ADAM HADWIN: Well, it was a little bit different than the finish from that round. Obviously I was playing extremely good golf the start of the second round. Four-footer for birdie, get to 4-under, and the first nine today was difficult, we'll put it that way. Kind of stumbled my way in.

Yeah, flipped that again, got off to a great start, striping it, hit my lines, did what I needed to do, and then kind of starting on call it 8, 9, 10, things started to digress a little bit, and I had to kind of grind through the round a little bit. It was nice to get a late one there on 16, but I made some big par saves on 15, and 14 was a nice up-and-down, as well.

Q. Did you look at the leaderboard at all today just for the sake of trying to see where you were at, and then maybe realizing, holy shit, there's a lot of people going deep out there today?

ADAM HADWIN: I'm a leaderboard watcher in general, so yeah, I knew what was going on. I knew guys were playing well. You could get that sense. You strike it well, put it in the fairway, mid-irons were hitting and stopping versus 20, 30 feet of release like they were the first day and a half. You got the sense that guys were going to take advantage. I was headed in that direction, I just couldn't keep it going.

Q. Was that kind of the key? The scoring conditions this afternoon versus yesterday, can you just describe them a little bit? Were the pins accessible this afternoon? What was the deal?

ADAM HADWIN: You know, I think just everything is a little bit softer. Fairways soften up a little bit, so they widen -- you get away with some balls that might have bounced into a first cut or the pine straw the first day and a half, and now they stay in the fairway. Same thing with the greens. You can be a little bit more aggressive. You know it's going to stop and hold.

An 8-iron the first day and a half was a defensive club, and today I think you could attack.

You could tell it was pretty obvious as we were playing that you could do it. Just a matter of doing it.

Q. Obviously this is a big event with a big purse, a lot of points on the line, et cetera, et cetera. Game plan tomorrow stays the exact same, or are you looking to press the gas pedal down a little bit more tomorrow?

ADAM HADWIN: No, same thing. I think this course Bates you into taking on too much sometimes. That's not my game. That's usually not my strategy. Very safe, very conservative, fairways and greens, and give myself looks. That's how I play golf. We'll just continue to do that and try and hit as many fairways as I can. Hopefully have some momentum through all 18 holes, not nine or ten holes this time.