Welcome to Taking part in Via’s day by day ritual — Golf Discuss As we speak.
As we speak, we have a look at all of the interviews from this week main as much as the Tour Championship and discover a number of the prime ones.
These are the off-the-cuff, hilarious moments that showcase the personalities of the PGA Tour gamers. I adore it when gamers open up or showcase their humor in these conditions. It makes them a lot extra approachable to the followers.
Regardless of the $100 million in prizes to win, the gamers mentioned all kinds of issues, from format ideas to course restoration and their non-existent handicaps to the Dallas Cowboys and Georgia Bulldogs.
Let’s take a look at the most effective quotes as far as Spherical 1 will get able to tee off round 11 a.m. ET.
The perfect quotes from the Tour Championship up to now
“I’ll be checking some scores each few holes, I’m certain, whereas I’m enjoying. I’m not going to go together with a set prediction, however I feel it’s going to be quite a bit to just a little. Oh, yeah. Huge win for the Dawgs to start out the yr.”
— Chris Kirk on Saturday’s Georgia vs. Clemson sport
“I feel it might be fairly — I don’t wish to say disrespectful, however I’d be fairly pissed if Scottie and I performed a observe spherical and he’s like, would you like a stroke on this 9? It will be like, what do I consider myself and what does he consider me. Truthfully, it might be a reasonably good intimidation issue.”
— Justin Thomas on giving different execs strokes
“I don’t know that area very effectively, however I do know that, yeah, there’s a handful of influencers, individuals on the market that individuals know them most likely method higher than they know me. And that’s not proper or flawed, however that’s simply the facility of it.”
— Justin Thomas on the Creator Basic area.
“I actually don’t deserve to come back right here to East Lake and begin on the identical rating as Scottie Scheffler. However it’s as much as me to attempt to make that up this week.”
— Shane Lowry on the FedEx Cup finale format
“Relies on the sport, however at residence, I’m usually enjoying to a plus 7. I was a plus 5. They moved me to a plus 7. So now we’ve acquired guys within the group which are getting like two strokes a gap. I usually nonetheless will win as a rule, I really feel like, nevertheless it’s simply enjoyable.”
— Scottie Scheffler on his handicap at his residence course
“Wherever the most effective gamers are competing I’m displaying as much as these tournaments as a result of I like the competitors… Once we go residence and play Wolf for 4 hours, and I’m giving 20 strokes to a man. I don’t wish to be giving him cash on the finish of the day whether or not it’s $5 or $500. I don’t wish to take out my pockets and hand him cash. That’s not in my blood. I wish to win, whether or not we’re enjoying ping-pong or no matter it’s.”
— Scottie Scheffler on how he approaches competitors
“It’s just like the Cowboys have had nice common seasons the previous few years and left me heartbroken within the playoffs.”
— Scottie Scheffler on Tour Championship’s shortcomings to Dallas Cowboys latest playoff efficiency
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