CONSTELLATION FURYK & FRIENDS PRESENTED BY CIRCLE K

October 4, 2024

Tim Herron

Timuquana Country Club

Quick Quotes

Q. Tim, 5-under bogey-free 67. Talk about what was working out there.

TIM HERRON: Yeah, I started off with a birdie. Kind of got some good momentum, which I haven't done in feels like years. But 3-under through about five holes, and, you know, got up and down when I could. Everything kind of went together. Didn't make a bogey.

Had a buried bunker shot, got up and down, things like that. You know, I had a lot of good fortunes, too. I hit to maybe a foot in the rough on the last hole and I probably wouldn't have -- would've had to have gone off far to the right and I was actually on the sprinkler head and got me a little better lie where I could hit pretty close to do pin.

Other than that, all in all played really good. Going to be a long week. We have some weather coming in. It's all about staying patient and hopefully get on another streak tomorrow.

Q. I was going to say, you said in the beginning feels like years since you put this together. Last week you had a great top 10.

TIM HERRON: Yeah.

Q. Talk about putting together two weekends in a row here.

TIM HERRON: In golf you got to -- you know, you got to remember all the good stuff and forget the bad. But as you get older it kind of creeps in, all the bad stuff, so you always remember all the bad.

Just trying to stay positive. You know, instead of guiding it, at least if you're going to miss a shot, you know, be aggressive with your miss.

Q. How much fun are you still having out here?

TIM HERRON: Well, it's been hard because having fun, you know, I'm struggling with my hands and my feet, so some days are worse than others. The humidity helps a little bit.

On the other hand it's really hard to hold onto the club when it's as hot as today. Got lucky that the overcast came in. If it was going to be sunny all day it probably would've been brutal for me.

Q. I know that is kind of an odd dynamic. What part of our game are you most comfortable with these days?

TIM HERRON: Well, it was the first time in 20 years where I brought a caddie in to help read putts. Just kind of made me -- instead of second guess myself, I kind of am in there and we commit to on the least line and started putting it pretty good. Instead of trying to guide it, don't miss it left, don't miss it right type thing, you're trying to hit the spot where you're trying to.

So it's more of a positive reinforcement.

Q. Is there anything about these greens that are tricky to you?

TIM HERRON: They've been very tricky but having two sets of eyes on them helped. We started doing that in the pro-am. They thought we were giving each other grief. I was just trying to figure out -- we would go to a ball mark, and how close was that rolling over the ball mark? Am I getting pretty close to what I'm seeing and what he's seeing?

Q. Who is caddieing for you?

TIM HERRON: Grant Berry, the English lad.

Q. Who did he work for?

TIM HERRON: He worked for Berger, I knew him few him in Carl Pettersson. Daniel Berger he worked with I think six or seven this year. Yeah, I've known him ten years at least. He worked for me a little bit last year.

Q. What is your track record on these old school tree-lined courses?

TIM HERRON: That's what I grew up on, but I didn't grow up on the grass. I've been playing 30, 40 years on grass like this. I still kind of like the Pebble poana type, but pretty used to this. I don't mind. I'm not afraid to throw a putter on the green and hit it.

So I putted a lot of -- when I was off the green I putted a lot, but they have the nice fringes here, so...

Q. Are the greens --

TIM HERRON: They're good if you can get the read.

Q. They look like they're just stopping, right?

TIM HERRON: Yeah, the last few holes they actually felt like they got slower than faster. Usually at the end of the day they get faster with more people walking on them. They're a good pace, good holing speed.

Like 17 was super fast from above the hole. They still have some lightning fast putts.

Q. Can you tell we've had a ton of rain around here?

TIM HERRON: Yeah, I can tell by the divots. Yeah.

Q. What's with the hands and feet?

TIM HERRON: No I got Dupuytren's contracture, it's a disease.

Q. Yeah. John Elway.

TIM HERRON: Yeah, he stole my money. I was the spokesperson, but that's okay.