THE AMATEUR CHAMPIONSHIP

June 20, 2023

Albert Hansson

Quick Quotes

Q. Lovely playing at the two stroke-play qualifying rounds here at The Amateur. How are you feeling?

ALBERT HANSSON: Thank you. I'm feeling good. I played quite all right. Putted very good. So two good scores, and good feeling for tomorrow.

Q. Difficult conditions this morning with all of that rain. How did you handle that?

ALBERT HANSSON: Yeah, I don't know, I just tried to hold on. It was very rainy and a lot of stuff to think about other than golf, but I did quite all right and then did very good when the rain stopped.

Q. Talk to us about the round. What stands out as the highlight today?

ALBERT HANSSON: Probably my putting. I've been putting very consistently for the last month, I basically. Hit the ball quite all right and made a lot.

Q. Any long ones that went in for you?

ALBERT HANSSON: I made one on 8 that was a momentum switch. I made a bogey on 7 and was 1-over for the round, and then made one on 8 and then two more in a row, so that's probably the one, probably 30 feet almost, 27.

Q. Must have been a nice feeling when you saw that one drop?

ALBERT HANSSON: Yeah, that was nice.

Q. Now we shift to match play. That's a shift in mentality for you?

ALBERT HANSSON: A little bit. I like match play. I've done quite all right in the past. I hope to keep that going. It's fun. I look forward to it.

Q. Quite all right might be a small understatement there. You, of course, won the R&A Boys Championship so you certainly know what you're doing when it comes to match play. Looking back on that victory, do you feel that's helped prepare you for this week?

ALBERT HANSSON: I think so. It was my first time playing links golf, so I got some good experience from that. I think I played like 13 rounds in ten days. So I think that will be a great week to look back to.

Q. As you say, these weeks are always really long and it's important to conserve the energy. Is that something that you learned that week that you can use this week?

ALBERT HANSSON: Yeah, of course, it's not a week where you go practise four hours after your round. You just maybe hit a couple of putts and a few shots on the range, and then go try to get some sleep and drink a lot.