THE AMATEUR CHAMPIONSHIP

June 20, 2023

Eliot Baker

Quick Quotes

Q. Great playing today here, you must be very pleased with your performance?

ELIOT BAKER: Yeah, very pleased. Solid golf all day and really only one blemish out there. Other than that, kept it very solid, holed a few putts and kept the momentum going.

Q. What do you think was the strongest part of your game today?

ELIOT BAKER: Today was probably putter. Putter was good out there. I kept hitting it to about 20 feet, which I always fancy myself.

Q. A hot putter bodes well for match play.

ELIOT BAKER: Yeah. Looking forward to hopefully the next few days but start with tomorrow and hopefully the putter stays hot.

Q. That's really the goal of this championship, isn't it, to make it safely through the two stroke-play rounds and get into the match play?

ELIOT BAKER: Yeah, exactly. That was my main goal over the first two days, and to do it comfortably was really sweet.

Q. As you say, you've played some nice golf and you're through comfortably. Have you reassessed the goal and set a new one for the match-play stages?

ELIOT BAKER: No, I mean, goals stay the same. Just take it one match at a time and hope for the best.

Q. What's your golf been like coming into this week? Have you been playing much, and what's the form been like?

ELIOT BAKER: Yeah, I played a lot of golf over the last week in some county stuff and game's been trending in the right direction. I had a really good catch-up with my coach and just from then, it's just been really solid. Nothing really to complain about.

Q. Did your coach give you anything in particular that you worked on that's clicked?

ELIOT BAKER: Just really simple stuff that we work on all the time. Just keeping the swing moving in the right direction.

Q. Looking ahead to the next few days, obviously you know you're right, there's some great players and you're all qualified for the match play. Do you start to think about what could be?

ELIOT BAKER: Yeah, I mean, that's always in the back of your mind, even before you start the tournament. But you've just got to stay in the moment and just take it one match at a time and then see where you end up.