Xander Schauffele · Round 2 · Interview · 2023 TOUR Championship · FedEx Cup Playoffs · PGA Tour

ready Xander how did you kind of characterize the round out there uh pretty solid I'd say the ending was a little bit of a scramble U made a couple nice mid-range puts on 16 and 18 um and that power on 17 was big for me so just keep my head down uh I look up at the board and I'm just barely barely picking up ground so um still a lot to do is it frustrating sometimes when you're barely making up ground we've seem to talked about this year after year because you play so well here is it kind of frustrating that when you play so well and you don't make up as much ground as you'd think just got to come into the week in a better position that's all s your record is so good here is there something specific game planwise or game wise that sort of fits I mean you drive the ball well you hit the ball well but is there anything beyond that um yeah I mean you gotta it's pretty obvious it's just you got to sort of plot around the around the property well and if you can get your putter going the greens are so pure you feel like you can start rolling anything in so um it must just fit my eye I'm not really sure uh but yeah I mean I've I've played pretty well around the property and I'm going to need some more of that magic here on the weekend would you characterize this as a defensive Golf Course or can you go out and shoot a 64 every round if you're H in the Fairway you can you can be offensive uh if you're in the rough yesterday was probably one of the better 300s I've ever shot I hit six Fairways and um fortunately I think a couple of the birdies came out of the sand which was big but uh it's just the course will you alive if you're not in the Fairway um you can kind of manage and manage your way around the property if you can score a little bit on certain holes but for the most part um if you're trying to run up this leaderboard you got to you got to start from the Fairway along those lines you said three under felt really really good of all your success here does it what round stands out like which one do you go back to thinks yes that was that was awesome uh I'm not really sure um it's funny you know you start it's cool to come back to the same Golf Course year and year out um a few times today I you know you always try and leave yourself below the hole and on the first hole to that back GL pin I actually hit it like six or seven feet past and I was able to make my putt but I looked at Austin and I said I've never had that putt before you know I didn't even think of practicing that in the practice round because everyone always you play up to it so it's cool to play this course so many times and still sort of have new shots or new to hit considering where you started though you got to feel pretty good with where you are and the chances going into the weekend correct just trying to give myself a chance yeah I was pretty far back to start and um you know I watched Rory do it he started six back and was able to win so if you're golfing your ball you can make it happen but um you know there's a reason the guys ahead have an advantage with that with that lead which they deserve obviously so like I said just got to keep plucking away here thank you get