Q. Nice opening round. What did you like about your round today?
BRIAN HARMAN: Didn't make any bogeys. I liked that. I liked that a lot. Yeah, I've been working hard on my short game, got out of position a few times and hit some really nice bunker shots to keep the round going. I was able to make a couple putts for birdie. So overall pretty solid day. I have to drive it a little bit better. Hit a couple wayward ones. Got to take care of that. We'll see if we can't keep going this week.
THE MODERATOR: You mentioned driving better. First time seeing this course since 2016 there's been some changes. What's the key to navigating around here.
BRIAN HARMAN: Well, I'm not familiar with the changes. I never played here. So it's my first look at it. It's very difficult especially coming in, 17, 18 with the wind blowing a little bit now. There is, 18's as hard of a finishing hole as I can think of.
Q. You say the wind's blowing a little bit now. It's been blowing a little bit all day. It was a little more calm when you teed off. To get through without a bogey today, just it is tough and it is long, how even in a little bit of breeze for here how difficult is that?
BRIAN HARMAN: Well, it's very difficult because if you're out of position there's really not a lot of spots that are very easy to get up-and-down from. So it's like you really need to drive it good and then you really need to iron it good and then make some putts. So if you're out of position it's tough. But I got fortunate, I had one kind of one miracle up-and-down back there on 14 I guess it was. Then the other up-and-downs were solid. Other than that, struck it pretty good. Had to get one up-and-down on 17 from the green. I had to chip it off the green on 17. It can get kind of funny around the greens. Bunkers are pretty deep. The course is in great shape and you can make some putts.
Q. What was the miracle?
BRIAN HARMAN: I hit it left off 14 tee, didn't have much, got it up into the bunkers super short sided, just like full swing blast bunker shot to five feet. Best shot I hit of the day probably.
Q. There's some news today too obviously with the LIV guys on the funding being gone after this year. I don't know how aware of it you were, it all sort of happened. People were talking about it the last few days. Do you think there's a path back for these guys?
BRIAN HARMAN: Yeah, I think so. There's been guys that are going to come back. I can't speak individually to each of 'em. Seems like they're treating 'em all as a case-by-case basis. I would think that the fans want everyone to be playing together and, you know, time heals all wounds. There's still some sentiment out here, especially with all the lawsuit stuff, that stuff's going to be tough to get past. We play with all those guys in the majors, so, yeah, I think there should be a path back.
Q. Everybody has their own opinion and that's great and there are some who said there needs to be strict penalties, some who said let 'em all back in. Do you fall on one end of the other, in the middle do you think there needs to be something that should be repaid for?
BRIAN HARMAN: Yeah, I think there should be something. I'm not smart enough to be able to tell you what that is. That's other people's jobs. I think there has to be something. I think that would help when I spoke to some of the bad blood and some of the resentment, although I haven't heard near as much of it in the last couple years as we did to start with the lawsuit. I think something's to ease a little bit of that is probably necessary.
Q. Some of the emotions seem to have died down in the last couple years over this, but still, when LIV officially is closing shop, the feeling here is of what?
BRIAN HARMAN: Well, I'm not sure that they're closing shop. They have run out of -- the funding's drying up. They could secure funding from somewhere else and keep going. They have got a lot of big name players over there, guys that move the needle. Until it's all done, until you've got guys that are actually calling and trying to come back to the tour, it's not really a problem that we're dealing with currently.
Q. What do you think -- just in general question I'm asking a lot of people different sports, do you learn more from successes or failures?
BRIAN HARMAN: Failures, for sure. Yeah. It's not even close, I don't think. I got asked the other day is winning, winning's hard out here, and I'm like no, the winning feels pretty easy when you're doing it. It's, you know, not executing when you think you should, missing a cut when you feel like your game's in form, not making the putts, like all that stuff's way more painful. The failures are more difficult and a lot, they teach you a lot more about what you got going on.
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