Q. Take us through the round. What was the most difficult part today?
JON RAHM: The main thing on this course is hitting the fairway. If you put the ball in the fairway you can actually give yourself a lot of good chances. Even 18 today was playing downwind, so if you put it on the fairway, you can have a good look at maybe hitting it close and that's what I didn't do. Obviously the first six, seven -- six holes of the day I played really good. Put myself in a good spot and after that I found myself battling. Couldn't find the fairway and the fairways that I missed cost me bogeys.
The only thing I can look back on myself is the three short putts I missed on the back nine, I'm between three to five feet, if I make those putts, I shoot 3-over which is not the worst-case scenario.
Q. The fighting all day, maybe the last hole is a sign of what's to come the next few days?
JON RAHM: Yeah, hopefully. I mean, it wasn't my best swings on the last two holes and made a birdie and a par. So there's many ways to do this. You don't need to play perfect.
Q. With this golf course, and we were talking with everybody about this, there's a lot of golf to be played here.
JON RAHM: Yeah, if I can somehow manage to putt a low one tomorrow and find myself close to even par through the weekend -- not at the weekend, sorry, going into Sunday, I think I'll have a decent chance.
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