An Interview With s2

July 28, 2013

sides or anything, and I was able to make a bogey An interview with: there which was huge. To get out of that shot with a bogey kind kept the momentum going and kept the disaster away. So it was a good, pivotal hole BRANDT SNEDEKER for me.

Q. Two-part question for you. First off, THE MODERATOR: Please welcome our you started the year so hot, so hot, and then RBC Canadian Open Brandt Snedeker to the you got sidetracked with your injury. Took you Shaw Media Center. Brandt it's your sixth career a while to get back to it, and then you win victory on the PGA TOUR and it also moves you to today. Summarize how things have gone for third in the FedExCup standings. Maybe you can you? tell us a little bit about what this win means for you BRANDT SNEDEKER: Yeah, feels like and we can open it up for some questions. two completely different years for me. First part of BRANDT SNEDEKER: Just ecstatic right the year, I couldn't do anything wrong. I was now. This is a tournament I said early on in my playing fantastic, and I got injured. I feel like I've career I wanted to win just because my caddie is been fighting to get myself back to the way I was at actually from Canada and it's his national open. It the beginning of the year. I'm not saying I'm there, meant a lot to him, meant a lot to me. Third oldest but I'm close to the way I was playing in the tournament on Tour and it's got some great history beginning of the year. to it, and now to put my name on that trophy it It feels great to get a win. To validate all means a lot. the hard work I've put in over the past three To go out there today in tough conditions months where I haven't played my best and know where I obviously didn't drive the ball the way I that I'm working on the right stuff and able to hold wanted to or hit some particular shots, but I hung in up under some pretty serious pressure this there really well and made the key putts I needed afternoon. To win a tournament like this with those to and I was able to survive. That's what today is pivotal holes coming down the stretch means a lot. all about. Q. I know with the currency exchange it Q. Can you walk us through the 12th won't be quite a million U.S., but will you be hole? It seemed to be a pivotal hole in the buying Hunter and Kandi a gift for Zoe? round? BRANDT SNEDEKER: Zoe will be getting BRANDT SNEDEKER: Yeah, I was kind a very nice baby gift from me. I can't thank Kandi of right between clubs. I wanted 4-iron, and kind of enough for going into labor early, was I don't know flared it a little bit to the right, wind caught it and if I'd be sitting here if she hadn't. But that is a way pushed it over right of the bunker. Hit the down lip more important thing than a golf tournament. I of the bunker and kicked into the junk; I guess that missed a golf tournament when my first was born, is the best way to put it. and it was the best decision I ever made. I'm sure I had to do a little operation over there. I Hunter would say the same thing. had a big lip right behind my ball, and that was a make-or-break moment. I had to try to move it Q. I know earlier this week you because I couldn't hit it. If the ball moved, it was a mentioned something about how since your shot penalty, and there was nothing I could do daughter was born in 2011 you've played some about it. of the best golf of your career. Maybe you can Luckily, my caddie and I did a great job talk about what Hunter will be experienced? going back to our six or seven-year-old days, pulling operation out of there and not touching the

08d7cbb7e05a5d67ad42ae8517ec4 1 d3a.doc visit our archives at asapsports.com BRANDT SNEDEKER: Yeah, I've won well? I mean, I must admit it sounds kind of five times now since she was born two and a half awkward, but it's probably a strange spot to be years ago. I think it puts golf in perspective. I think in. out here can you place way too much importance BRANDT SNEDEKER: Yeah, I've been on how you're swinging the golf club and how you through this before when Kyle Stanley made a big play. Even though it is our career, it doesn't define number on the last hole and some people say he who we are as people. gave me the tournament. This is kind of right there I used to take everything way too seriously with that. When Hunter was playing so great, he on the golf course. It used to be who I was. Now would have been tough to catch over the last two with a daughter and new young son, I realize they days. But he's not here. There is no point in going don't care at the end of the day if I shot 90 or 60. down that road. My two and a half-year-old told me great shot. I hit I'm just happy to be RBC champion. I'm it in the water on Saturday. He said, "great shot. excited that he made the decision that he did. Way to go, dad." They don't care. They just want to be there at the same time with you. Q. Secondly, talking about 18, so So it really put a lot of importance on you're not aware that Dustin had tied you on 16 practicing smarter, being better on the golf course, and then Paul had his struggles on 17? about managing my emotions and realizing how BRANDT SNEDEKER: No. unimportant every golf shot really was. Q. So it wouldn't have changed at all Q. Brandt, yesterday you talked about how you played that hole? how you probably had to shoot 65 or 66 to win BRANDT SNEDEKER: No, I was trying to after three days of ideal scoring conditions. hit the fairway, first and foremost, trying to hit a Was there a point today that you realized that good tee shot. From there, I've got to lay it up. My pars were going to be good scores because of caddie does a great job of letting me know how how tough the conditions were? aggressive I need to be. When he said just give BRANDT SNEDEKER: Yeah, after the yourself a birdie putt at it, I figured it was a pretty first hole I realized it. The wind was blowing very cushy lead. hard. Every fairway was tough to hit, every green was getting firm. It placed an importance on Q. Does he pay attention? managing your golf ball. Miss it in the right spot, BRANDT SNEDEKER: Yeah, he knows place importance on getting it up-and-down, which exactly where. He only tells me if I need to know. is all kind of things I'm really strong in. I did a great job today of saving pars early in the round. I was Q. Did you change drivers? able to hit some quality shots coming down the BRANDT SNEDEKER: Yeah, I did. stretch when I needed to and put the ball in the right spot. Q. So you're back to? BRANDT SNEDEKER: My old driver. Q. Were you aware of the scenario of Dustin making the triple on 17 at all? Q. You seem to be pretty upset after BRANDT SNEDEKER: No, no clue, no you lipped out that putt on 6? How big was it clue. I don't look at leaderboards because you to bounce back with that birdie on 7? can't control anything anybody else is doing. My BRANDT SNEDEKER: That was huge. It whole goal today was to go out there and shoot as was a momentum putt. 6 was a bad bogey. Hit a low as I possibly could. Because if I was up by five good tee shot there and messed it up from there or down by four, I just wanted to shoot as low of on 7. You need some good stuff to happen. scores as I possibly could, and that's what I did. You're kind of waiting for that stuff to happen. The Coming down 18, I could feel like the birdie 7 which was playing tough today was a tension was out of the air. I felt like I had a chance bonus. For me to win today I had to play par-3s and a pretty cushioned lead to get it done. really well. The par-3s were going to be pivotal holes. I did a great job. Got the momentum going Q. All joking aside, do you see this as a in the right direction, and got the good thoughts. tournament where you've gone and won it, or All the negative thoughts stayed away, and I really the leader just parted part way through playing kept my head on straight from there on out.

08d7cbb7e05a5d67ad42ae8517ec4 2 d3a.doc visit our archives at asapsports.com Q. You've now had your three best Canadian Open finishes here at Glen Abbey. What is it about this course that fits your game so well? BRANDT SNEDEKER: The greens here are right up my alley. They're small greens, but they're a Bent and Poa mixture. I love Poa Annua greens, in San Diego I played really well. On the west coast Pebble, I played really well. So I love Poa Annua greens. I know if I get putting well on Poa Annua greens, I'm going to have a chance. Friday kind of got the feel flowing. I knew I was going to have a good weekend on the greens, and that's really what the difference was.

Q. You talk about the relationship with your caddie. Was there anything today? You guys had a lot of conversations about the wind and stuff. Anything where he really stepped up and made a big difference? BRANDT SNEDEKER: He did a great job even on 12 today. There was a crack in the log, and I didn't see it. It was really a wet, thick log. If we moved the log the way I was going to move it, it probably would have broken off and rolled down and hit the ball. He did a great job of catching me there and getting me thinking clearly. He did a great job all day. Calling me off shots. We made a bunch of great decisions today. Missed the ball in the right spots. We talked truth every shot. What we do and don't want to miss.

Q. What club was it? BRANDT SNEDEKER: 4-iron.

Q. Did you see the rafters in the creek when you were down there? Just sort of the guys were out in the creek? BRANDT SNEDEKER: Oh, yeah, yeah. That actually kind of helped because we had a two or three-minute delay there. The wind was really blowing hard, and it kind of died down by the time we hit. So it actually helped me out.

Q. So thanks to the rafters? BRANDT SNEDEKER: Yeah, thanks to the rafters. I owe them a beer. THE MODERATOR: Thank you so much for your time, and congratulations. FastScripts by ASAP Sports

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