GENESIS SCOTTISH OPEN

July 14, 2023

Nicolai Højgaard

The Renaissance Club

Quick Quotes

Q. You said at the start of the week, you had all the motivation you needed after your brother's win, certainly seems to be the case. 7-under after two rounds, how do you reflect on that?

NICOLAI HØJGAARD: Yeah, every time one of us plays well, the other one seems to get a little bit extra motivated. Seeing Rasmus win last week made me probably work a little bit harder or be a little bit more focused on doing the right things.

This week, I've played some good golf so far, and yeah, it's nice to see.

Q. Are links challenges the ones you enjoy?

NICOLAI HØJGAARD: I do, yeah. Obviously the course is gettable out there. It's quite soft. We had two different wind directions these two days, so the course is playing different. But it seems like the early group out today found a way around with good scores, so the course is definitely gettable, so it's good to see.

Q. And you had a lot to contend with condition-wise, a lot of rain and gust of winds as well. How difficult to keep patience out there?

NICOLAI HØJGAARD: It's one of the most important things in general when you play golf. Even though you get through the hard holes, if you hit a couple good shots, you've got a birdie chance, and you can play the easy holes over par. So it's just about staying patient all the time and trying to plot yourself around. I did a really good job today, so hopefully I can keep building on that in the weekend.

Q. A great opportunity now this weekend. How excited are you for that?

NICOLAI HØJGAARD: Yeah, I'm looking forward to it. I haven't played that much good golf lately, so it's nice to see a good round early. So I really look forward to grind it out over the weekend.