THE WALKER CUP

September 3, 2023

Preston Summerhays

Nick Gabrelcik

Quick Quotes

Q. Preston, just talk about the shot on 16.

PRESTON SUMMERHAYS: Absolutely incredible. I mean, his shot was fantastic. I don't know if you guys know the front shelf on No. 16, but it's sloping away. If you go barely past it, it runs down into a little dip to where you've got 20 feet, and Nick had great distance control, great spin control. Landed it right in front of the pin. Just an amazing shot to five feet, and I snuck one in there.

Q. And you had a big reaction.

PRESTON SUMMERHAYS: Yeah, it was funny, to feel like nothing was really going for us all day, but we just stayed steady. I think we made one bogey all day, especially in this wind is really good, but Nick hit so many good putts, and we hit so many good putts that just weren't going in. To finally get a big birdie on 16, I had to give a little bit of a reaction with that.

Q. Talk about what went well today.

NICK GABRELCIK: Yeah, the whole game plan all day was let's get it in the fairway, maybe just in the rough depending on pin position, and Preston and I knew at the start of the week when we first got here that our games were very similar and we thought we'd match up very well, and I think today proved that.

Like he said, putts were coming really close, and we were winding up fist pumps and celebrations, but they just weren't falling. Our connection and our positivity towards each other really drove us to get on top in this match, and I think that's how we ended up coming out with a victory.