THE MEMORIAL TOURNAMENT PRESENTED BY WORKDAY

June 2, 2023

Mark Hubbard

Muirfield Village

Quick Quotes

Q. Good round today. Can you talk a little bit about it? Shooting 2-under.

MARK HUBBARD: Yeah, got off to a little shaky start. Missed two drives left, which is not my tendency. So that kind of was a little nerve wracking. But I made two really good pars on 10 and 11 and that kind of settled me down. Really good up-and-down on 10. And from there I found some rhythm and stayed really patient all day.

Q. What are you looking to do for tomorrow?

MARK HUBBARD: I mean, around this place I got to drive it really well. Because I'm a little shorter, I don't carry it as far, my fairways are a little narrower. If I do miss the fairway I have a longer club coming in. The greens started to firm up a little bit this afternoon and I assume they will continue to do that over the weekend. So I got to drive it really well. I've really been putting it and chipping it great around here, which I have to again because, you know, I felt like I hit it great yesterday and I looked and I lost two shots on approach. I'm like, I don't know how can I hit it much better than that. So, yeah, I'm going to have to scramble and, yeah, just stay patient.

Q. With this weather being hot today, how do you think it played into your play for the day?

MARK HUBBARD: I just sweated a lot more. No, I mean it's been hot, it's hot in Columbus and it's hot here. So the ball is definitely traveling. I just thought that these afternoon's play tough. The wind is gusty and it seems to be coming from all different sorts of places that it's not supposed to be. So you really just got to trust your gut out there.

Q. How was the lie out there on your little wedge shot and what's the thought process there on 9 to kind of save par?

MARK HUBBARD: The one off the fairway or just by the green?

Q. Just by the green right here.

MARK HUBBARD: Yeah, it was great. I mean, for me I think this long rough actually sometimes makes those shots play easier, those little kind of dump shots. Because you can't really hit it that far, you just kind of flub it out. But the ones that are tough for me are kind of the one like I had on 10. A ton of green to work with where you got to get a little momentum because it's so easy for you to hit it two feet or 20. So, yeah, that one was actually in a good spot. I think it was kind of lucky that it didn't go into that bunker, it would have been a little more challenging.