VALSPAR CHAMPIONSHIP

March 21, 2024

Adam Svensson

Innisbrook Resort (Copperhead)

Quick Quotes

Q. Solid start today. Can you tell us what was going right for you?

ADAM SVENSSON: Yeah, it's been a rough couple weeks, but it seems like the ball striking came around and hit it pretty good today. I made some nice putts, just one 3-putt. Just looking forward to tomorrow and see what happens.

Q. What's the biggest demand do you think this course takes overall?

ADAM SVENSSON: I mean, you pretty much have to do everything well. You got to hit your irons on the par-3s. Off the tee, you miss the fairway the rough's pretty deep. Overall, the whole game has to be kind of working out here.

Q. Why has Florida not treated you well?

ADAM SVENSSON: I don't know. I'm not too sure. I always seem to play poorly in this kind of stretch, and then I kind of pick it up at the end of the year. I'm not too sure why. It just happens.

Q. As golfers, how hard is it to figure those things out?

ADAM SVENSSON: Golf course-wise or just?

Q. If I'm not playing this well or I play well in the fall and I don't play well now?

ADAM SVENSSON: Yeah, you just got to have a positive attitude towards it and just say, all right, well, next year I'm going to try and change, and just do little things to get better and I don't know, maybe -- I don't know, I grew up on bent grass, so this is Bermuda, so it's a little different, but you just got to work through it.

Q. What did you miss in Florida, or did you?

ADAM SVENSSON: What did I?

Q. Tournaments.

ADAM SVENSSON: I missed the cut at Honda, Bay Hill, and PLAYERS.

Q. So you've done the entire Florida Swing?

ADAM SVENSSON: Um-hum.

Q. Is there part of you that wonders why you keep beating yourself over the head if you usually hit a stretch?

ADAM SVENSSON: Not really. I have a pretty good, positive attitude. I feel like if you're playing bad, you just got to play good some time, so just keep my head down and keep going.

Q. Is there any part of Florida, whatever your record is notwithstanding, that is just kind of a tough stretch scoring-wise. There's not a lot of Palm Springs-type scoring in this stretch here.

ADAM SVENSSON: Yeah, it's usually windy. If you're not hitting it great, the wind's going to move your ball a lot more offline. You're missing greens, it's Bermuda, it's harder to chip out of than bent. So there's a bunch of different things I can factor in.

Q. You didn't get a lot of wind so much at PGA this year and I guess it was a little softer last week than usual, but as you look at the stretch, is it probably the hardest stretch of the year?

ADAM SVENSSON: I think so, for sure. With this event, four in a row like that, I mean, Bay Hill's one of the toughest golf courses I've ever played. This one is not as hard, but close, so you got to play good golf.

Q. What do you got coming up?

ADAM SVENSSON: With tournaments?

Q. Yeah.

ADAM SVENSSON: Probably play the next two weeks or -- I'm not too sure yet. It just kind of depends how I play. My goal's to get into the Masters and if I don't, then I've got a Signature Event the next week and that's the way she goes.

Q. Where did you start the year on the World Ranking? I feel like you weren't too far out of -- around 60?

ADAM SVENSSON: 60, yeah. I don't know what I am now.

Q. Are you used to playing six in a row? You didn't play Mexico, did you?

ADAM SVENSSON: I didn't play Mexico, no. If I do the next two, it's six in a row. I don't mind it. I just take an extra day or two off and, yeah.

Q. Got somebody carrying your bag. That's good.

ADAM SVENSSON: Yeah, I don't have to carry that 50-pound bag around, which is nice.

Q. Can you talk about your caddie this week a little bit.

ADAM SVENSSON: Just felt like I needed a different flow and Jace has caddied for me before for, I think, a year and a half and another Canadian too. So, yeah, he reads greens well, which helps me out.