Q. You came here Friday afternoon to visit with your family and weren't sure whether you were going to keep playing. Two days later, how do you feel?
CHRIS KIRK: Yeah, overall I played some great golf yesterday. I played okay today. Would liked to have gotten a few more on the back nine there. But the course is playing so difficult. Everybody can see it's not easy. It was definitely a day where I feel like I could have gotten it a couple under instead of 1-over.
But all in all, yeah, especially after six holes on Friday, I was at 7-over for the tournament. I think if you had asked me right then, I would have taken a top 20 and where I'm at.
Q. Was there a fix in there somewhere or just keep playing?
CHRIS KIRK: Doing this for a little while now, and all you can do is just keep going.
Q. 8, 9 and 10 I thought you were really going to get into something. 11 takes down a lot of folks. You got hot there. Tell me about that stretch.
CHRIS KIRK: Yeah, 8 was a miracle birdie. I hit it in the left trees and chipped out, hit a 5-wood to 25, 30 feet and had a putt that I just hit it halfway and played 15 feet of break, and it happened to go in right in the middle. That was a really cool bonus.
Q. 32 officially.
CHRIS KIRK: 32 feet? Okay, yeah, that was a really cool bonus.
Four great shots on 9 and 10. Got a little lucky with my drive on 9. I pulled it a little left but it got through over the trees and a great wedge shot there, a great putt, and then a beautiful 8-iron in there to two feet on 10. It was nice.
Overall happy with how I'm playing, and looking forward to hopefully improving on it a little bit in Hilton Head next week.
Q. I'm assuming you're not even thinking about top 12 when you're -- was that something you thought about so it takes the pressure off being here again next year?
CHRIS KIRK: Yeah, that would have been nice to go ahead and know for sure, but I'm not a big scoreboard watcher anyway, but I kind of like it here that you don't have the detailed scoreboards that we have on Tour events so you know exactly where you are at all times. I was just trying to hit some good shots. I would have loved to have gotten a few more. 16 kind of stings a little bit, making bogey. It was a really bad number for me and got caught between clubs and trying to hammer an 8-iron and hung it out right a little bit. Hit two good putts and then tapped in for bogey. It is what it is. It's a fine line out there.
Q. You and Sepp still root for each other, don't you?
CHRIS KIRK: Oh, yeah, no doubt. We want to beat each other, but we pull for each other, as well.
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