Q. Tyler, it's been a grueling run, back to some good form. A top 3 finish, that smile on your face says it all.
TYLER DUNCAN: Thank you, I appreciate it. It's been hard. It's been a long road, and been working hard. You never know when the results are going to come, and happy to see it come.
Q. What came together this week to allow you to play your best golf in a while?
TYLER DUNCAN: I think it's been coming together the last few weeks. Phoenix I actually played really well and I had one of my worst putting weeks ever, and then last week I finished 33rd. Going around Riviera is a hard golf course. I felt like I saw some good signs last week, and this week it was just all there.
Q. First top 10 since your win at RSM; I know there's a lot of emotions that are going to come out of this, what that grind has been like. What do you lean on in moments like that knowing that you have this type of golf in you?
TYLER DUNCAN: A lot of it's just trying to find that belief. It's hard to figure out do the results come first and then the belief or the belief and then the results. It's like the chicken or the egg. I feel like I've been putting in the work and just trusting that process and that I'm working on the right things.
Q. Let's focus on today's round. You never know what's going to happen on this golf course because there are bogeys out there. Walk me through what you were feeling during the round.
TYLER DUNCAN: Yeah, there's stretches of really hard golf out there and anything can happen, and I got off to that hot start, and I was just trying to plug away and give myself some opportunities.
My goal was to get to 15 because I thought that was going to be close. I wasn't really going to look at any boards or anything until I got to 15 because I figured that was going to be hard to get past.
That was kind of my thing is just keep my head down and keep working hard and hitting good shots and see if I can make some putts.
Q. What are you most proud of this week that you're going to carry forward? What do you think about that week that really springboards forward for you?
TYLER DUNCAN: Just that I hung in there all week, everything that I've been doing, stayed with me the whole week. It wasn't like I had one or two good rounds. It was there all week. Stayed consistent, hit a lot of good shots, hit a lot of really nice putts, and just keep doing what I'm doing and not stop there.
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