Q. Can you just talk about the emotions of a round like this?
JORDAN SPIETH: It felt all right today. Yesterday I let myself down with emotions, but today I was all right.
Just was I had a goal to be 3-under at 18 fairway and the rest will take care of itself. I was well on my way. I just didn't execute enough shots and didn't kind of -- a couple bounces could have gone one way or the other. I needed to be almost flawless today. When the wind was blowing, it's a hard golf course.
Yesterday really set me back. Felt like I stayed pretty calm, got off to the start I wanted. Then around that 11, 12, 13, 14 stretch, if you can get through there unscathed, you know you're looking at some opportunities on the other holes. I did pretty well around those holes this week, but today kind of caught a couple that could have gone one way or the other and ended up mis-executing the shots just barely and didn't get away of it.
Q. How aware were you of your situation, and how did that influence your play down the stretch?
JORDAN SPIETH: I mean, kind of. I figured 2 was plenty fine today and 1 probably wasn't. 1 might end up being. If I shot 3-under, 7-under was going to be plenty fine. If I settled one short, I'd be sweating it, I thought.
You always want to kind of think -- push it to maybe a lower number than what's expected, but it didn't like affect the way I played any holes or anything.
So yeah, it was a tall task coming in. I was going to need to finish essentially in the top 10 this week and fell just shy of it.
It's funny, I just feel like I'm kind of getting back to playing really good golf, like it's close to kicking off, and I'm not going to play a tournament for a long time. In some ways I feel like I'm leaving some out there, and in some ways it's a good thing because like I mentioned after the first round, this will be the last time I finish like this for a while.
I'm very, very confident in what's coming. I just ran out of steam and maybe made a couple bad decisions over about a six-week stretch on what I was working on, and I just didn't quite have enough time to make up for it.
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