SANDERSON FARMS CHAMPIONSHIP

October 6, 2023

Harrison Endycott

Country Club of Jackson

Quick Quotes

Q. Harrison, congrats on a great second round. 24 total putts, over 125 feet of putts made today. That's incredible.

HARRISON ENDYCOTT: Yeah, look, I've been putting in some really hard work over the last couple weeks. I think I was dead last in putting in Napa after Friday and wasn't like I was putting bad. It felt a lot closer than what it was. They just weren't going in.

When the coach rang me and said, what's going on, I don't know. Like they're just not going in. So did some really good work over the last couple weeks. Swing feels great.

Game has just been trending in the right spot, and it was nice to play well the last couple days.

Q. You birdie 7 and 8 and then at 9 you hit the tee shot, and I heard this "doink." It was the power cable, right?

HARRISON ENDYCOTT: I absolutely crushed this drive down 9, hit the power line and forced me to reload, and hit probably one of the worst golf shots I think anyone would have hit this week. It worked out good, caught the fairway and made birdie.

It was meant to be. Birdie was meant to be at the last.

Q. We're getting to know your game. Interviewed you in Bermuda where you had a top 10. You won in Huntsville a couple years ago on the Korn Ferry. Your game is kind of rounding into form the last few years, isn't it?

HARRISON ENDYCOTT: Yeah, it's been really frustrating over the last few months, the last few tournaments leading into Wyndham. It just was not happening. So much was going wrong out there. I didn't feel like I was doing 100 percent a great job off the golf course, too, and just results were kind of taking control of that.

Having some time off after Wyndham really -- didn't change anything, but practiced a little bit smarter and just getting a little bit better with that has definitely helped.

I definitely feel like it's building in the right direction. I was playing some good golf with the guys and it was nice to take some money off some friends last week.

It's heading in the right direction, and I'm looking forward to tomorrow.

Q. Take us through the eagle on No. 3 if you can.

HARRISON ENDYCOTT: What hole is 3? Oh, the par-5.

Yeah, I hit a good drive. That hole was playing long today. It was playing really, really long. I made a really poor bogey -- I three-putted 18 for bogey, and I was just a little disappointed with that. I said to my caddie, we've got some looks coming in. I was a bit disappointed that I couldn't get home in two on -- I had to have a forced lay-up. No pro likes a forced lay-up on a par-5 especially.

My caddie actually talked me into hitting a little dead-arm sand wedge. I was leaning towards a bit more of a solid 60, and he was a bit afraid that it was going to spin off the front. We took a little bit more, hit a little dead-arm, take some spin off, and we made it.

It definitely made up for the mistake on 18, and yeah, haven't holed out for a while, so sometimes when you hole out like that, you tend to hole out a few more times. Hopefully that keeps going.

Q. A little outside of the Top 125 right now. Is that on your mind as we're in the fall?

HARRISON ENDYCOTT: Yes and no. Like obviously I'd be lying to say if it wasn't. I've just been really, really focused on what I'm trying to do right now. I'm really happy where my game is at, where it's heading.

I'm working so hard on it. It was great to just come out and play well. I haven't played well for a long time.

Q. But it's been -- like Napa, it was so much closer there than where it seemed, and I missed the cut by three or four shots. Like I said earlier, I think I was next to dead last in putting. It was somewhat of an embarrassment and somewhat of, like hang on, it's close.

The last two weeks just focused so much harder -- like 80 percent has been putting, and paid off the last two days.

Q. How much of a relief is it to make a first cut for a while?

HARRISON ENDYCOTT: That's what I said to my caddie; it's nice to have a job on the weekend. I was getting sick of flying home on Friday nights.

I think you keep doing the right things, and I think scoring will take care of itself. I managed to do that today, stayed calm, and actually to be fair I felt like I played better yesterday than I did today. Just made a few more putts and capitalized a little bit better today. Didn't drive the ball as well.

In reality I feel like the best feeling drive I hit all day today was the one on 9 that hit the power line, and then had to reload, and then I hit the worst golf shot of all time. It was a bit like that today on the golf course.

But yeah, I'm pretty proud of myself the way I managed myself around. I played awful here last year. It's always nice to come back and play at a place where you haven't played well at and play well at. We'll go after it tomorrow.

Q. Have you found any good coffee shops?

HARRISON ENDYCOTT: Yes, Native. Small business, really good. I've been there every day. I might go after practice today, actually, before I go to the gym.

Q. What's your go-to drink there?

HARRISON ENDYCOTT: Flat white and a cortado.