WGC DELL TECHNOLOGIES MATCH PLAY

March 24, 2023

Cameron Young

Austin Country Club

Quick Quotes

Q. Cameron, another dominating performance out there. What's been clicking so well these three days for you?

CAMERON YOUNG: Honestly, I've just played some really solid golf. Obviously new caddie this week with Paul Tesori. I think the work that he's put in on my behalf this week, just as far as preparation and game planning, has done a lot of good for me.

Kind of like I said yesterday, I'm just very confident in the decisions we've made, and I think it's allowing me to make some really good golf swings. Then it helps that I made a couple of 25-footers that don't have to go in.

The match today early, I made one on 2 that was probably 15 feet and one on 4 that was probably 20-something. Just neither of those have to go in. If the match is up 1- or 2-up through those holes, it's not the same as 4-up. So yeah.

Q. How much more do you pay attention to your opponent a little bit more here than if it was stroke play?

CAMERON YOUNG: Yeah, a little bit. There's times that your decision is changed by what they do.

Q. Did that happen today?

CAMERON YOUNG: I think there was one. There was one on 13. If he had gone first and hit it to 14 feet I would not have hit 5-iron off the tee. Obviously I went first and kind of did what I had planned. But that's one where it definitely would have changed.

I can't think of one that did. There must be something there. Nothing I can think of today.

Q. What are you kind of looking forward to in your matchup tomorrow?

CAMERON YOUNG: I don't know who it's against yet.

Q. Horschel closed it out, so it's Horschel.

CAMERON YOUNG: He's obviously a past champion of the event. I've been around Billy quite a lot and I know how intense he is and also how good he is at golf.

I think it will be a lot of fun. He's a fun guy to play against. It would be a big accomplishment to beat him, I think, just knowing how gritty he is and how much he loves match play.

Yeah, I'm just going to go try to execute the same plan and hope I get off to a start like I have the last few days.

Q. Is there one particular thing you kind of focus on in match play? A lot of guys, like I said, try not to give holes away. Is there something that's the main focus for you outside the swing thoughts?

CAMERON YOUNG: Yeah, I know that's kind of a standard one, just keep yourself in every hole, but that is a large part of it. You just never know when you can make an 18-footer for par and kind of keep the match going your way or just entirely flip the momentum.

It's too fast to give up on a hole, and you just never know when your opponent might miss something and you might make something. One hole can change the match drastically.

So I think the guys that have said that are very correct. It's a major part of it.