THE 152ND OPEN

July 21, 2024

John Catlin

Mixed Zone

Q. How would you sum up the week and what it means to you to have done so well?

JOHN CATLIN: I mean, it's just so special. It's just such an amazing event. I was walking up the last, and I was in that greenside bunker and I still couldn't help but smile. It's just such a cool walk. It's so unique to the Open. That's something I'll always cherish.

It's unfortunate to finish off with a bogey. Would have liked to have finished off with a par or birdie, but yeah, it's an amazing week. It's an amazing event, and I hope to be back here every single year.

Q. You had a great run at the end there, 13, 15 and 17, you birdied them all.

JOHN CATLIN: Yeah.

Q. Good feeling or did you think --

JOHN CATLIN: Sometimes you get over a certain -- a couple of putts and you just feel like you're going to make them. There's just a couple of putts where I was like, yeah, I feel like I've got a good chance of making it and I thought I read them right, and I did. Sometimes they go in and other times they don't. Yeah, it was fun. It was fun to make those putts for sure.

Q. It was about a 30-footer on 13?

JOHN CATLIN: Yeah, it was just under 30 feet. I think it was about 27 feet.

Q. And 15 and 17?

JOHN CATLIN: 15 was about 20, 17 was four and a half, five feet.

Q. Talking about the week, what were your expectations at the start, and what do you think you've learnt most of the week here at Troon?

JOHN CATLIN: Expectations, I didn't have that many expectations, just wanted to come and play as well as I could. Yeah, I feel like I belong. I feel like I belong at the major level. I hope I get a lot more opportunities. It's been my dream since I was a kid to win a major championship, and I think one day it might happen.

Q. You're leading the Asian Tour Order of Merit. What are your plans the next couple of months?

JOHN CATLIN: I want to win that Asian Tour Order of Merit. I want to win the International Series Order of Merit, and I want to lock up that LIV spot for next year. I've played the Asian Tour for -- I think this will be my seventh season, I think. I don't know if you'd count years where I didn't play. I basically took those two out. So I think it's been seven years. To win that, it's a pretty storied list of champions that have won that Order of Merit, so to be on that list would be something truly special.