LIV GOLF PROMOTIONS

December 9, 2023

Kieren Vincent

Abu Dhabi Golf Club

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THE MODERATOR: Let's welcome Kieren Vincent from Zimbabwe. Well-played today. Kept the card clean with a bogey-free round of 67 here at Abu Dhabi Golf Club. Can you take us through your round.

KIEREN VINCENT: Yeah, I think it was just great execution of the game plan that we set out. It's obviously an awesome golf course in great condition, and so I was just pretty thankful to kind of keep the ball in front of me and just hit the spots we needed to on the greens and allow the putter to roll. Rolled in a couple today, which is always a good thing.

Q. You were one of the players with a bye through to Round 2 this week. Did that extra day of rest contribute to your performance today?

KIEREN VINCENT: I think that extra serving of pudding I think did it. But no, yeah, obviously that extra day of rest and kind of seeing how guys took it yesterday just kind of gave me that extra confidence of wow, we can go out there ourselves today and kind of execute the game plan that we did. Yeah, just a nice extra day of rest never hurt nobody.

Q. As we stand, you're through to the final stage of LIV Golf Promotions. What's the game plan going into 36 holes on Sunday?

KIEREN VINCENT: Surviving, I think. Yeah, I just think it's going to be much the same that we did today. Try and keep the scorecard clean.

Luckily tomorrow is a bit less of a shootout than it is kind of a marathon, so tomorrow is just going to be about seeing how we can keep our energy levels the same, making sure that we get enough rest tonight and just going out there and having some fun.

Q. There's three spots up for grabs tomorrow. What would a place alongside your brother Scott on the 2024 LIV Golf roster do for you?

KIEREN VINCENT: I think it would be great. Obviously we're five years apart, so we haven't really been able to spend too much time together, so obviously being able to spend like a full year together on a specific tour would be great.

But we've got a lot of golf ahead of that between now and the end of tomorrow, so I think first things first, just got to go out there and execute a game plan that we set out.

Q. 36 holes tomorrow; when was the last time you played 36 holes? Was it a U.S. Open qualifier? How do you approach it when you have to play 36 holes in a day?

KIEREN VINCENT: Yeah, I think it's just more about getting the adequate rest that you need. I think the last time I played may have been a U.S. Open qualifier or even back in college. I've only been a year and a half out of college now, so was lucky enough to spend a lot of time playing a lot of 36 holes, so it's not something that I'm not used to, so I think that is a nice thing.

But obviously it's been about a year and a half or maybe close to a year ago since the last time I played one. Excited to go out there and test it. 36 holes on a great golf course, anything can happen.

We're just going to go out there and rest up well tonight and have some fun tomorrow.

Q. I know Scotty is in the habit of calling his wife every evening. Are you going to do the same and call up Scotty today especially and just get some wisdom, or is it not in the plans?

KIEREN VINCENT: We'll see how it goes, see if he's available. Obviously he's enjoying his family time, and it's a nice thing that he can do that right now.

I'm sure we'll be reaching out to my own girlfriend, seeing what she got up to today, and yeah, nothing really -- we'll see what he's up to, see if he has any advice for me, but I'm sure it's going to be much the same, go out there and have some fun.

Q. You have the same caddie, Scotty's caddie this week. How important has that experience been this week? Only played one round, but --

KIEREN VINCENT: Yeah, it's been huge. I think he's such a great guy, not only on the course but off the course. So just learning small things about how to get things done, preparing well. I think he had such a good game plan yesterday of getting me prepared. We basically almost played the course on the range, so just kind of prepared myself mentally for a test out there today.

Yeah, I think it was just more about preparing and having some fun off the golf course. Yeah, it's been awesome to have Jacob on the bag this week, and I see why Scott plays well with him on the bag.

Q. Did you have to deviate from the almost 70 odd shots that you hit at the driving range, did you have to deviate from any of the plans?

KIEREN VINCENT: Not necessarily. I think we had a general gist of where we wanted to hit it, but obviously while you're on the golf course, sometimes you don't either hit it as good or hit it better than you should or whatever. There's maybe just a little bit of different yardages, but much, much the same. It was just kind of the good kind of feel, visualize, execution kind of thing.

We were lucky enough to go out there and have a beautiful range like this Abu Dhabi golf course has to be able to have that available for us, so we did that, and it was an awesome experience.