WGC DELL TECHNOLOGIES MATCH PLAY

March 22, 2023

Jordan Spieth

Austin Country Club

Quick Quotes

Q. How would you characterize the match, just more good play?

JORDAN SPIETH: Yeah, I thought it was about how I played the last few rounds last week. Not quite as solid as the first one, but pretty good.

I had a nice par save on the 2nd hole. I kind of missed the first couple fairways, and then I thought I flipped it on 4, I made a putt and he missed one from inside, both for birdie, and then he made about a 40-footer on 7, and I was able to make about a 15-footer on top.

I thought that was big there.

You know, there's always -- it always comes down to there's a few key holes that you either need to kind of catch a break on or maybe go earn it, and I kind of was on the right side of three or four of those today.

Q. It looks like you're having fun playing right now. You talked earlier about watching Tom Kim play and he had that sort of youthful exuberance and you wanted to sort of get back to that. Is that just a function of playing well that you're having fun?

JORDAN SPIETH: I think they go together. I think that -- I think going out feeling like you don't have to go do anything special, instead just go play golf, frees you up a little, that maybe kind of helps a couple of those swings you see a little better or you see a positive outcome versus avoiding a negative one, stuff like that, if you're in the right frame of mind.

Yeah, I've been trying to work on just kind of hitting and playing and not talking so much. I did an okay job of that. I would say I didn't do a great job of that on my last hole. I was like, what am I doing hitting it over here, and then I ended up holing the shot. It doesn't necessarily affect how I play, but it is a lot less energy used up, it feels like, over the last couple weeks.

Q. You mean that isn't how you drew it up?

JORDAN SPIETH: Not exactly on that hole, and it's not a hard tee ball. When you're dormie, you want to get it done on 15 out here because it's hard to birdie the holes. But it's not hard to par it.