TOUR CHAMPIONSHIP

August 30, 2024

Scottie Scheffler

East Lake Golf Club

Quick Quotes

Q. When you went into today, was it any different than you started yesterday?

SCOTTIE SCHEFFLER: No, I got off to a better start than yesterday, so it was good. Yeah, played another what I felt like was a pretty solid round of golf.

Q. You've hit the most greens and most fairways. Do you feel like anything in your swing is working especially well?

SCOTTIE SCHEFFLER: Hitting a lot of fairways and a lot of greens.

Q. Just swing-wise?

SCOTTIE SCHEFFLER: No, no, I feel like my swing is in a good spot. I've hit it nice last couple days. Really felt like I've hit a lot of lips on the greens, but hitting a lot quality putts.

Today the putts that did not go in did not -- a lot of them did not miss the cup by very much. A lot of quality stuff out there, and yeah, in a good spot going into the weekend.

Q. It was a really nice reboot after the rain delay. How do you get restarted like that and get going right off the bat?

SCOTTIE SCHEFFLER: Just tried to get a little bit of rest. You never know how long those things are going to go, but fortunately we were able to get out pretty fast. Looks likes we're going to be getting some more weather tomorrow and Sunday, so maybe getting mentally prepared for a few more of those delays.

Q. Did you feel pushed by Collin and Xander? Did you feel that little bit of pressure that they were coming after you a little?

SCOTTIE SCHEFFLER: I mean, it's the second round of a tournament. It's the second round. I mean, it's a long tournament. Just trying to do my best to stay out there and execute shots, and today I did a pretty good job of that.

Q. Is it weird on the second round of a tournament to look at a board and see you up by six? That doesn't happen every week.

SCOTTIE SCHEFFLER: Yeah, probably will definitely not have any more seven-shot leads after -- it was seven, wasn't it? I'm sure you guys made a really huge deal of that.

Really it's just a product of me having a good day and the guys behind me on the leaderboard, there wasn't a lot of guys there to start the day, and those three guys there didn't have their best stuff.

Then today was a day where I had a big lead, but there was a huge group of guys right there, so obviously some guys are going to play pretty well.

But I did a good job of staying in my own world out there and put up a good round of golf.

Q. We put an asterisk next to it if that helps.

SCOTTIE SCHEFFLER: I hope you did.

Q. Big one. Talor Gooch sized big.

SCOTTIE SCHEFFLER: Yeah, large asterisk.

Q. Statistically this is your best back-to-back rounds putting wise on this golf course. Is there a comfort level now that maybe wasn't there before?

SCOTTIE SCHEFFLER: Well I think literally it's a completely different golf course than it was the last -- I think this is my fifth year here. I mean, it's the same routing. It's literally not the same golf course. It's completely different.

Some of the shots off the tee still shape the same, but the bunkers are in different positions, the greens are totally different. It's a new golf course that we're all kind of learning on the fly.

Q. What's the longest club you hit into a par-4?

SCOTTIE SCHEFFLER: It's got to be No. 1, I would think, a 7-iron. That was a good one, too. I hit it about six paces left of the hole and I had a 40-yard chip from up against the collar. Yeah, that was a good hole.

Just one of those things, I see the ball flying left of the pin, and you're just hoping it's going to catch the other side of the mound and it hits the left side and starts rolling, and you're like, okay, I guess I'm screwed.

Q. It was a good putt.

SCOTTIE SCHEFFLER: Yeah, it was an awesome par. One of the best up-and-downs I've had in a while, really.

Q. How big is that when you make 18, 20 feet to start a round?

SCOTTIE SCHEFFLER: Yeah, great way to start the day really. I'm sitting there in the fairway hoping to get a decent look at birdie. But ultimately on No. 1 you're just trying to make a 4. It's a pretty hard hole. Like I said, you can land it in the middle of the green and end up off into a pretty tough spot.

Q. Which you did.

SCOTTIE SCHEFFLER: Yeah, I did, and then I recovered from it nicely, which was a great way to start the day.