March 3, 2024
Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
Royal Greens Golf & Country Club
Crusher GC
Quick Quotes
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Q. Ban, you've got the trophy in your hand. Do you know what place you started today?
ANIRBAN LAHIRI: I don't know. We were a long ways back. I knew that, 10 odd shots, something like that.
Q. Charles, you were kind of the first guy with the low score, 4-under through your first five or so. What was going right for you there?
CHARLES HOWELL III: Well, I had Bryson up in front of me, and I saw he was making birdies, and I knew I'd better do something.
It played hard today. It was super windy. Counting four scores is brutal. It's really hard. We were quite a bit back starting the day, but if we hung in there, we had every chance to.
Q. Paul, were you watching the leaderboard? It was all over the place and all of a sudden you guys shoot right up?
PAUL CASEY: No, I was just trying to get in the clubhouse because it was basically three guys and then me. I was trying not to screw things up.
BRYSON DeCHAMBEAU: You still contributed.
Q. Bryson, talk about that birdie to tie on 1.
BRYSON DeCHAMBEAU: Yeah, I didn't really realize that that was to tie it, but I knew I was trying to make as many birdies as possible. Sometimes I'm good at that, and I knew my guys were playing pretty well, as well, so I was trusting them. Shoot, I was just trying to go as low as possible, and luckily ended up with a four-shot win.
Q. You were surprised?
BRYSON DeCHAMBEAU: Yeah, when I finished 5, I was like, all right, what's the team at. And they're like, you won by like five. I was like, what? Okay, cool. I had no idea.
Q. 20-under is so impressive, and this comeback -- did you guys come into the day realistically thinking we're going to win this tournament?
BRYSON DeCHAMBEAU: No, but I knew that our team is good enough to do it any day, especially four scores counting. I can count on these guys to play really well.
It was just a top priority for us to play our best, and this obviously showed today. Especially in these types of conditions, when it's really windy, we do pretty well. We just hold our head high. I don't know what else to say.
Q. Ban, where are we going next and what's the goal?
ANIRBAN LAHIRI: Well, as a team I think we're all pretty focused on playing our best golf. We all know what we need to do. We want to win individual prizes. We want these as many as we can through the year, as well. Me personally, I'm just working on building some form. I know Bryson is not short of form. Paul and Charles have had a solid season so far. So I think as a team we're exactly where we want to be, and just keep motoring along from here.
BRYSON DeCHAMBEAU: I just keep letting them do what they do. It's funny, we barely even play practice rounds. We just kind of do our own thing and wind up working pretty well together.
ANIRBAN LAHIRI: As long as we show up on Sunday, it doesn't matter.
BRYSON DeCHAMBEAU: They're like at 7:00 a.m., I'm just barely waking up at 10:00.
FastScripts Transcript by ASAP Sports
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