ABU DHABI HSBC GOLF CHAMPIONSHIP

November 9, 2024

Thorbjørn Olesen

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Quick Quotes

Q. How did you find it our there today?

THORBJØRN OLESEN: I thought it got tougher and tougher during the rounds. I thought the greens were quite a bit faster and I guess with the pin placements, also, it's just really tricky to read. I'm sure you saw a lot of missed putts on the coverage today because yeah, it wasn't easy.

Q. It wasn't just you. It was happening across the whole field, especially across the last six holes?

THORBJØRN OLESEN: I saw it in our group, quite a lot of putts missed. These greens are tricky to get to the pins. If you're a little bit off, you're getting some really awkward areas and you have difficult two-putts and difficult up-and-downs. Definitely a lot tougher than the first couple days.

Q. Watching you tap-in for par on 18, taking a glance at the leaderboard, you must have felt like you left some shots out there. Only three away from the leaders as it stands.

THORBJØRN OLESEN: Yeah, that's positive. Obviously you want it to be a little bit better today but I'll take 1-under. I thought, like I said, it was tricky. So I think you can definitely see the last, I don't know how many, but you can see the scores being quite a bit higher.

There's a chance tomorrow, which is great. That's what you want at the start of the week is to have a chance on Sunday, right. I'm very pleased with that.

Q. What would it mean for you to pick up this title tomorrow?

THORBJØRN OLESEN: I said at start of the week, I think these last two events are some of the biggest events all year, so to get a name on one of the trophies would be amazing. Huge event, and I'm going to go out there -- there's so many guys right now in the mix with today. You saw a lot of low scores in the morning, I think, so there will be a bunch of guys that can win tomorrow which is pretty fun.