Men’s Olympic Golf Competition

Sunday, 1 August 2021

Saitama City, Saitama, Japan

Kasumigaseki Country Club

Mackenzie Hughes

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Q. Not the fourth round you set out to do. Tell us about the round today.

MACKENZIE HUGHES: Yeah, it sucked. I sucked like the whole day and, yeah, super disappointing. That's all I can really say about it.

Q. You played in a group with a couple guys who were scoring. What's that level of compete like when you're in that group but you don't feel like you're, like you've got your best game?

MACKENZIE HUGHES: Feel like you're getting run over by a transport truck, to be honest. Yeah, it was really hard to compete those last bunch of holes, just had nothing and the guys I was playing with were tearing it up and it was just pretty helpless feeling.

Q. Recapping the overall Olympic experience, a little bit different, but your first one, at a glance looking back, what's that experience like for you?

MACKENZIE HUGHES: Obviously I'm really proud to be from Canada and to wear the Maple Leaf. I'm just really disappointed in the effort that I had this week and, yeah, it will sting for awhile, but it will make me work hard for Paris and hopefully I'll be part of that team.

Q. Is that a goal, when you sort of get through one you say I'm ready to look ahead to the next one?

MACKENZIE HUGHES: Yeah, I mean obviously it's a ways in the distance, but, yeah, that's where I want to be in a few years time. But yeah, got some work to do before then.

Q. You're going to head home, going to give the kids a big hug and when they say at one time, Dad, what's it like to be an Olympian, what do you say?

MACKENZIE HUGHES: I say it's an experience of a lifetime and I hope to do it again.

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