Q. Putter seemed to get hot today after maybe a little bit of a colder day yesterday. What was maybe the difference on the greens for you today?
MAX HOMA: I thought my speed was a lot better. I putted for a while yesterday afternoon and kind of just made a little pact with myself that the only thing I would think about was the pace, even on the short one.
Strokes felt so good, and I felt like yesterday missed a few early and started just thinking about my putting stroke too much. Speed got worse, and I don't think there's any technical flaw in there. I was really happy with the speed. That's how you're going to make long ones typically. I thought for the most part today it was really consistent.
Q. Did you feel like you hit the ball the same as you have the first few days? It seems like iron play's been solid all week.
MAX HOMA: Yeah, iron play's been good, drove it good enough. Hit some -- kind of tricky around here, but hit some fairways on 3 and 5 that open up birdie so much easier. I don't think I drove it any better than yesterday or really the day before, but I hit the right fairways, I guess. There's some out here you can miss and live.
It's a very difficult driving golf course. You're not going to go around there hitting 12 fairways very often. Whatever I hit today I thought was good enough. Looking forward to just trying to do the same stuff I've been doing the last three days. Today was an anomaly in a good way, but I thought yesterday was an anomaly in a bad way. So just take it and run with it.
Q. Was the drive on 18 a little bit of a pull?
MAX HOMA: I don't know, it felt like my driver broke, more so because my second drive was weirder than my first one. That could be me making excuses, I'm not sure. I'm going to go whack a few in a minute.
That was weird because I thought I flushed it, and it came out dead left. Then my provisional came out weirder to the right. I've got to go figure that one out. Kind of a lame way to end a good day, but that's kind of just golf, I guess.
Q. You've talked about how your game's felt really good since probably May, how the swing's felt good and everything like that. Do you feel like your swagger is maybe coming back to you a little bit?
MAX HOMA: I don't know about that. I think I know, especially after that long layoff, I know that, if I don't get in my own way, I'm one good round away from being in a golf tournament. On a week that's good, maybe I play two and I'm ahead.
I just think I know what's in there, and I know if I can stay out of my own way, I can turn. Yesterday mentally felt like I could have shot 2-, 3-over and it turned into even. I know those are little things that don't seem great when you're at 40th, but I never really felt like I was out of this golf tournament on a hard golf course where the game feels pretty solid.
I don't know if it's swagger, but I just think like my patience seems to be better and I'm more tolerant of things that don't go great, and I have a lot of confidence that I can put up a few good scores.
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