PGA CHAMPIONSHIP

May 19, 2023

Justin Thomas

Oak Hill Country Club

Quick Quotes

Q. Talk about the day. After yesterday you said you felt like you'd come back out here and play pretty well. How would you assess the day?

JUSTIN THOMAS: It was a grind again. It was a fight. Just got off to a poor start. Just made two mistakes on those -- on 5 and 7 that just -- mistakes I shouldn't make in those situations. In the position I was in, trying to make birdies, I didn't really need to try to force the issues on those holes, but it was weird, I just kind of let it all out on 7 green. I just went of went rogue and said a lot of things. I don't even know what I said. But for some reason I felt very calm after that, and I played some really good golf.

I hit a really bad shot on 11 and then obviously the second shot on 18, but hung in there and fought tough.

Q. You seemed to know exactly what the situation was on 18.

JUSTIN THOMAS: Yeah.

Q. Does that give you any solace, the fact that you knew and you got it done?

JUSTIN THOMAS: Yeah, absolutely. It went from trying to make a par to trying to make a birdie off the tee and really thought my tee shot was going to be in the fairway to be honest and then from there, it's like, holy crap, what have we done.

But Tiger has always said it, I've always said it, you've got to give yourself a chance and anything can happen, and on this golf course I gave myself a chance, so see if we can do something crazy this weekend.

Q. Rory said something to you walking off, put his arm around you. What did he say?

JUSTIN THOMAS: He just said, auto finish, good putt. I played with him before when I've had it unfortunately go the other way in a very similar circumstance, so he was glad to see it go that way he said.