THE SENIOR OPEN PRESENTED BY ROLEX

July 29, 2023

Phillip Archer

Royal Porthcawl Golf Club

Quick Quotes

Q. Thanks for joining us on a day when the average score is over 76, and you shot 71?

PHILLIP ARCHER: I enjoyed it to be honest. Took on the challenge a little bit. I got my best mate and my coach on the bag and we embraced it. On the range, was just concentrating on a lot of shots, taking the spin out of everything, chipping shots and stuff like that. We just took every shot as a challenge, really, and we knew we could hit some perfect shots today and still drop shots, which we did.

Q. You have an opportunity tomorrow to win the Senior Open on your debut, and it would be a live-changing win with the exemption.

PHILLIP ARCHER: You can see with the scores, how tough it was out there and stuff, and just trying to talk myself into thinking it's not too important at the moment. Yeah, it is life changing. It would be a dream come true sort of thing. Have to get out of that mindset a little bit and playing well enough to win, so no reason why we can't be there tomorrow.