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PGA Championship PGA Championship Tuesday, May 18, 2021 Kiawah Island, South Carolina, USA The Ocean Course at Kiawah Island Tony Finau Press Conference Harding Park and you played well there last year. You were right in the thick of it until the end. Does that THE MODERATOR: Welcome back to the 2021 PGA encourage you if you feel the golf courses are similar that Championship here at the Ocean Course at Kiawah Island, you could do some damage here this weekend? South Carolina. We're pleased to be joined by Mr. Tony Finau. Tony is currently ranked No. 14 in the official world TONY FINAU: Yeah, no doubt. I look forward to major golf rankings. He is playing in his seventh career PGA championships. I have a good record. But the energy that Championship. comes from playing these types of tournaments, I love PGA Championships, have had some success in some Tony, do you see the Ocean Course as a typical PGA events as far as PGA Championships go, so I look forward Championship golf course or one that deviates, and if your to the week. answer is deviates, how does it deviate? After seeing the golf course, it's in amazing shape. I don't TONY FINAU: Yeah, I played it for the first time yesterday. know if we putted on greens as good as they are this week I played 18. I wanted to touch them all early in the week. at the Ocean Course here at Kiawah Island. I look forward It seemed more like a U.S. Open golf course to me, I think, to the week, yeah. It's a great golf course. It's going to be if I'm being honest. I tipped it out. I wanted to play it at its a great test. max length. Q. Tony, courses do and don't play to the yardage on But I thought there were some long holes. There was a card. You said it played really long yesterday. Can enough wind yesterday to cause some problems, so I you give us a couple examples for your length where it thought it was quite tough. even played really long? It actually reminds me a little bit of -- it's a different version TONY FINAU: Yeah, well, just the last five holes were -- but of Harding Park when I first saw it. I didn't play straight into the wind, 14 to 18. 14 is a par-3. I hit a 3-iron Harding Park before the PGA Championship last year, but I from the back tee. It was more like my driving iron, which I also thought that that was -- not as much the PGA flight about 255 yards. So I had to hit that club on 14. Championship's MO as far as toughness of golf course length, stuff like that. 15, I hit 4-iron into, which is a par-4. You kind of expect that more in a U.S. Open. As the week 16 is a par-5; I hit driver, 3-wood, and it was about 80 went on at Harding Park I think guys were able to learn the yards into the green on a par-5. golf course, a lot of the same wind, so I think guys were still able to score. 17, we played -- that's the only tee we played up. We didn't hit from the very back. We played the back tee but It'll be interesting to see how they mix up the tee boxes this we played up. I hit a 4-iron into that green, which is a week. Again, I played it at max length yesterday, so that par-3, and then driver, 3-iron on 18 from the back tee. was probably a big reason why it was playing really long. Felt like it played really tough, and it was my first I'm not used to hitting a lot of long irons, mostly into par-5s, go-around. As I get more familiar with the course maybe not par-4s, so I think that gave me a little bit of a taste what that'll change a little bit, but I really like the golf course. I it could be like this week. was impressed with it, and it was nice to go around it for the first time yesterday. They did give us a notice in the locker room and an email that they are going to switch up the tee boxes a lot. As I THE MODERATOR: You compared it for a moment to referred to earlier, I'm sure they'll do a great job of kind of 107525-1-1041 2021-05-18 14:22:00 GMT Page 1 of 3 switching it up a little bit and giving us a little bit of leniency when it comes to some of the length on some of those Q. Have you done that before, tried to play the course holes into the wind. as hard as it possibly could play anywhere? Q. I was going to ask you about the closing 66 last TONY FINAU: Yeah, I mean, I do it most of the time at year. You buried a lot of putts coming in. Was that home. I just like maxing it out and tipping it out to try to kind of a stepping-stone as you look forward to getting challenge myself and have the furthest I can into all the into the mix here more at majors like you've been? greens. I just know for sure yesterday was quite a test. That's why I referred to it as maybe a U.S. Open setup. TONY FINAU: Yeah, it was a big round for me. Just more so I had a chance to win coming down the stretch there. But again, I don't see them setting it up that way and Morikawa made an amazing eagle on 16, which kind of put maxing it out on every single hole, but I wanted to do that the tournament away for a lot of us that were hovering right just to play the golf course at its max length. around 10-under, which I think a lot of us were at. Q. When you show up at a PGA TOUR event and you So he was able to put the golf tournament away with one contend, people might end up being disappointed swing, but barring that, any one of us could have won that when you don't win. Do you almost feel less pressure tournament, and I was included in that. showing up at a major championship, number one, because you have a good record in majors, and I think that was big for me. That was one of a few chances number two, because most of the players in the field I've had to maybe win a major championship, or at least be haven't won a major before? in the thick of it with a few holes to go. I think that was a big stepping-stone for me, and it is always nice to play a TONY FINAU: I don't know if it's less pressure or -- I feel good round of golf on a major Sunday. really comfortable, I think, in major atmospheres, because I've put myself in contention in a lot of them. I've played in Q. Along those same lines as far as moving tees, do the Ryder Cup and I've played in a Presidents Cup, so I the sight lines or where you're trying to play change don't know if it's less pressure than maybe more depending on some of those forward tees they might comfortable than most of the field just playing at a high have you guys play? level in these tournaments. TONY FINAU: Yeah, no doubt. Right out of the gate No. But I look forward to the major championships. Tiger 15 is a hole that comes to mind. It's a hole that you look referred to them as the four weeks that mattered to him. A like you want to hit it over the left bunker, but from that lot of the top players in the world feel the same. back tee it's pretty much impossible into the wind. As my career has evolved throughout the years I'm starting I tried to do that yesterday, and again ended up hitting a to feel the same. The major championships are the 4-iron out of that bunker and trying to get it on to the threshold of pro golf, and I'm happy that I've showed up for putting surface. If they move that tee box up a little bit I a lot of them. I haven't been able to win one yet, but the think you can cover some of that bunker on the left side more I put myself there, hopefully I knock the door down, there. and hopefully it's this week. Another hole that comes to mind No. 9. If they move the Q. Brooks has talked about at a major he only feels tee up you can kind of cut the corner off. It's a little dogleg like there's some portion of the field that he has to left. worry about. Do you feel the same way, given how you've performed? So it'll be interesting to see how they mix it up throughout the week, but I think our job as players is to try to be TONY FINAU: Yeah, I think there's definitely a belief in prepared for all of it.
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