RBC HERITAGE

April 13, 2023

Scott Stallings

Harbour Town Golf Links

Quick Quotes

Q. Scott, how would you characterize that round today?

SCOTT STALLINGS: Good. Got the ball in front of me, and the fairway obviously can be tricky here. Managed myself out of a couple of spots where I missed the greens and made some nice putts, but kind of how it was to have a round like that.

Q. How do you kind of change your mindset when you come from Augusta to a place here like Harbour Town, just completely different than Augusta National?

SCOTT STALLINGS: I mean, the shots are still the same. You try to compartmentalize as best as you possibly can but still carry over -- I mean, while the golf courses are totally different, you still have to manage the ball in the right places, very similar to Augusta. Like you can be in the fairway and be completely out of position. Same thing here.

So while the golf courses from tee to green look very different and slopes -- that's probably the slopiest course we play all year to this is probably the flattest. You've still got to -- the ball has to be in the right position, so the mentality is the same.

Q. Where do you feel like, this time of the year, where do you feel like your game is? Is it where you'd like it to be? Some things you want to improve upon?

SCOTT STALLINGS: Definitely started to see some improvements at Match Play. Kind of worked myself into a little bit of a funk with my swing, kind of definitely through the middle of the bag, but saw some improvements over Match Play.

Even though my overall scores didn't show it, I started to see some shots that I hadn't seen in a while for the good. It felt great. Week of prep for the Masters, kind of went back and started to establish a little bit more of a baseline as I prepped day in and day out, kind of through the bag, and it definitely carried over.

Had a rough six, seven hole stretch in the middle of the second round and kind of put myself out of opportunity to compete for the tournament. But I took advantage of a gift by making the cut and improved my position, and I played well in some tough conditions over the weekend.

Q. Taking a lot of positives and even though there was that little stretch of holes that went a little tough?

SCOTT STALLINGS: Yeah, but you start to understand like what you did to get yourself in that situation. When you have a poor result, was it a shot, was it the decision, was it whatever? And start to learn from your mistakes and try to improve from them and carry it on from there.