Q. How would you describe that round today?
BEN GRIFFIN: Yeah, it was pretty solid. Felt like played pretty steady off the start. I missed a couple birdie putts. I think I would have liked to have made those. Felt like I just stayed pretty patient. Kept giving myself chances. The conditions were softer with the rain. I knew because of that we were going to be able to attack a few more pins. Especially the short irons. Just tried to control the spin a little bit. Felt like I had a really solid day. Obviously a bogey on the last isn't ideal, but it's one of the toughest holes in golf so it is what it is. Just had a great weekend and best finish of the year, so just feel like I'm trending in the right direction.
Q. What did you find this week in your game that has you trend engine that direction?
BEN GRIFFIN: Started hitting it pretty nice at Zurich. I felt like I was compressing it a lot better with my swing. Physically sometimes I am not, I don't compress my irons as well as I want to. I found a nice feel at Zurich maybe even the week prior. Just started rolling with it. Heritage actually was its first week with it. I felt really good but just felt a little uncomfortable with some of the irons. I feel like I really sharpened up my irons and got comfortable with how I kind of my alignment and everything and how I have to shift that a little bit compared to how I was swinging. Golf's a funky game. I'm describing it right now to my best ability of how I think but to the view where is at home you might think of what I'm saying is actually different than what you should be doing. No, just hitting it really nice and got my game in a physically in a good spot and mentally I'm in a good spot as well. Just got to keep plugging along and try to pick up a trophy soon.
Q. Good time to have your game in a right direction with the Truist next week, PGA the following week.
BEN GRIFFIN: Totally. Whenever you can time your good play with big events, I did that a lot last year, kind of right around this exact same time. I've done this every season on tour. I had a lot of people from the media maybe 2-3 weeks ago that were like, what's going on with your season. It's literally the exact same season I've had the last four years. I played okay on the West Coast. I played okay when I come over to start the Florida swing. Then I start heating up this time of the year. And low and behold here's a third place finish this week. It's really nice to play well in the big events and especially the majors and excited to especially keep the pedal down.
Q. When you get things going this morning, obviously Cameron is way ahead, but then it's kind of a bunched for second place. What's your mindset in approaching that?
BEN GRIFFIN: My mindset was similar to the previous few days. Control my game, just try to post the best number I possibly can and see where that stacks up. I was so far behind Cam so you can't really have a mindset of let's make nine birdies on a course like Doral. You got to be so patient. You got to really be okay with pars on a lot of the par-3s and some of them were difficult par-4s. My mindset was just kind of stay steady, stay in your lane, don't focus too much on what Cam's doing because it's going to take something really magical to be able to win. So just trying to play solid golf.
Q. 18 aside, how good was the 38 holes of bogey-free golf before that?
BEN GRIFFIN: Yeah, it was really good. I played very nice golf yesterday. I felt like I got one or two good breaks yesterday. Today I felt like I just hit it really good. Didn't necessarily get any great breaks or anything but I just kept giving myself a lot of chances. I felt like today's round was better than yesterday's. I think I shot the same score. Yeah it was a great weekend. Can't complain about it.
Q. How impressive is it what Cam is doing this week, you guys are similar age, similar college area, Ryder Cup what impresses you about Cameron?
BEN GRIFFIN: I've known Cam since gosh probably we were like 14 or 15 maybe. U.S. Juniors and junior golf. I remember trying to get him to come to North Carolina with us. Me and my roommate in college, both of us were trying to get Cam to come. He went to Wake Forest. I've known Cam for a really long time. I always knew he had this golf in him he was always really solid. A little bit of a technical swing and the pause at the top, but man he crushes the ball. On a course like this where distance is a premium, it makes sense that he could run away with something with a week like this. It's incredible golf he's playing right now. He's obviously in a really good head space and it's impressive and it's something to admire a little bit and try to improve myself to try to battle it out with him more and more.
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