AT&T BYRON NELSON

May 13, 2023

Tyrell Hatton

TPC Craig Ranch

Quick Quotes

Q. Tyrell, bogey-free 65. Continuation of your play the first two rounds. Get some opening comment on the round.

TYRELL HATTON: Yeah, I mean, it's mad that that was a bogey-free round. Holed some nice par putts on the front nine. Really didn't feel comfortable with my swing today, which I feel like my last sort of 12 holes yesterday I found something again and hit it really nice.

I tried to take that feeling into today, and, yeah, just felt like a bit of a struggle. Holing par putts kind of kept me in it, and then I had a nice up and down on 14.

Then, yeah, really nice finish where I hit some nice shots coming in.

But 6-under is quite a flattering score certainly with how it felt for me anyway.

Q. Over those last five holes, four birdies. What were some of the shots that -- walk us through some of those shots that helped set that up.

TYRELL HATTON: Well, 16, 207 pin and hit 5-iron to about 12 feet, just past the hole. It's quite a tricky pin there today. You can't really miss it left because it'll just feed off and then you'll be left with an awkward third.

So that was really nice, and then, very happy to hole the putt.

17, 123. Good atmosphere in there today. Few people enjoying themselves by the sounds of it. Yeah, we were just trying to hit a grip-down wedge and flight it a little bit because it was into the wind. Yeah, that came off really nice to about six feet.

And then really nice up and down on the last for birdie.

So, yeah, just nice finish. Hopefully I can take that momentum into tomorrow.

Q. You've had a couple high finishes so far this season, including last week at Wells Fargo. Do you feel like your game is as good as it's been all year right now?

TYRELL HATTON: No, as I said, today I felt pretty uncomfortable at times. Funny, actually felt really confident coming off the golf course yesterday. Although I think I shot 4-under yesterday's round, it felt a lot better than that and I was happy with how I was hitting it and how it felt.

Yeah, it was a little bit strange to come out today and try and do exactly the same things and it just wasn't really working.

Yeah, that was some good up and downs there. I would like to be standing over my irons feeling really comfortable and I haven't really had that. Didn't really have that over the weekend at Wells Fargo either.

It's weirdly transitioned into this week, but somehow kind of doing nicely on the leaderboard again. So maybe I have to be a little less hard on myself. I don't know.