Q. What did you feel good about from your round today?
SCOTTIE SCHEFFLER: I played really nice again today. I bogeyed 6 early. I had a weird lie on the second shot and kind of chunked it. After that I hit each shot the way I wanted to, just didn't get the results from it. Outside of that, I felt like I played pretty well. It was very challenging out there with the wind gusts.
Q. When you're playing in the wind, what do you focus on most in your swing?
SCOTTIE SCHEFFLER: You've just got to control the golf ball, so it's controlling spin and trajectory. A lot of times you're not hitting very many full shots because when you hit a full shot the ball will spin more, and then you really have to get the wind perfect each time, and if you're hitting a little bit more chippy shots and working the ball, you can kind of manage some of those gusts.
Q. Is today the kind of day where you and Ted give yourselves a little bit more grace in terms of you hit the shot, execute as well as you can, but you might not get outcome you were looking for?
SCOTTIE SCHEFFLER: Yeah, I'd say that's a good way to describe it because you're not going to get every wind right for 18 holes, and if you do you'll have a pretty great round.
But I think having realistic expectations of what we need to do out there, like 17 is a good example. On my fourth shot, the second one -- the tee shot I hit exactly the way I wanted to. Somehow the wind either stops or goes back because the way my ball was flying it should have basically gotten to the middle of the fairway and I end up in the left bunker. Then I catch it a hair fat, and all of a sudden I'm dropping and hitting my fourth shot, and I hit the shot exactly the way we wanted to, and as the ball is flying, you get a gust into the wind, and all of a sudden the ball is not on the green. If it hadn't have gotten that gust, it lands a couple paces behind it, spins back right to it.
So just little stuff like that. You can't get every one correct. You just do your best to manage your way around the golf course.
Q. Justin was in here right before you talking about how in conditions like this, he goes about hitting golf shots; it's a little bit less methodical about the way that you go about things because you have to take so many things into consideration. Do you agree that conditions like this it's a little bit more creative with the way that you hit shots?
SCOTTIE SCHEFFLER: Yeah, yeah. I would use "robotic" as maybe the word. It's not as robotic. I think when you're playing under no conditions or very light winds, I think you can hit a similar flight on every single shot and it would be fine. On days like today you have to work the ball both ways. You have to hit low shots, hit high shots. You're always playing a different type of shot, especially in conditions like this.
Q. Justin had said some super nice things about you and your game. Is there anything that impresses you about Justin and the way he approaches the game?
SCOTTIE SCHEFFLER: Yeah. Justin is a guy that I looked up to from a young age. He was a really talented junior player, talented amateur player. He had a lot early success out here on TOUR.
Justin is an extremely hard worker. I think Justin is more of a practicer than I am. I'm more of like -- I like to play a lot when I practice. With Justin, he is very, very disciplined in the way he approaches things, and that's why you've seen him have success for so many years out here. He sticks to his process. He doesn't let things kind of get to him, I think, and I think a lot of that goes back to how hard he prepares to come out here and play. He's very, I would say, professional in the way he approaches things.
Q. On 17, is it the wind that's giving you the most problems or what is it on that hole?
SCOTTIE SCHEFFLER: I mean, I just don't have an answer for that.
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