THE MODERATOR: Bryson DeChambeau joins us now at the 107th PGA Championship. A few minutes for some quick questions.
Q. Obviously the difference between you and the top right now is 16 and 17. Can you just take us through what happened there, and maybe how disappointing that is, but still in position?
BRYSON DeCHAMBEAU: Yeah, I'm three back with one round to go in a major championship. So I can't complain too much. You can always ask for more. You can always try to be a little greedier out there. 16 didn't feel like I played that hole terrible. Just hit the tee shot a little farther right because I knew the wind was hauling down off the right and I could have hit it through the rough and pushed it out to the right. Hit it exactly where I wanted to on the second shot. Hit a great third shot, good fourth shot. It just broke left. Broke more left on that putt.
17, hit a great 9-iron exactly the way I wanted to. The wind just pumped it. Nothing I can do. Wind flipped from being neutral off the right like it was on 4, I believe, and it just was almost straight in and we misjudged that, considering on 16 we thought it was playing almost a little downwind.
Hit a great shot on 17 and just made a dumb double, and on 18 hit a great 3-wood. Just needed to aim it more left. It went in the bunker and consequently -- I actually hit a great shot out of the bunker. Right on my target line and the wind just turned into me again. It was just a tale of the wind going into me instead of downwind. It cost me three shots and that's what happens here at Quail Hollow.
Q. Last year down the road at Pinehurst, you have a 18th hole where guys could make a 3, 4 or 5, and same thing here. This thing will probably get decided tomorrow on what happens on 18. I know you're in touch with the ordinary golfer. How does the ordinary 220-yard slicer play that hole for a five?
BRYSON DeCHAMBEAU: For a five? I mean, hit-and-hope (laughter). Take a break for two weeks and quit, I don't know. It's impossible.
For somebody that slices it down there, you're just trying to hit it in that first quadrant short of the bunker, lay-up shot where our drives are going, then hit an iron shot on the green and hopefully make a 5.
Q. For you is it a little frustrating hitting --
BRYSON DeCHAMBEAU: No, just it's a golf hole. I thought the wind was a little more downwind and off the left, and it was just straight off the left, and so with a 3-wood, like I did on 14, it would have gone over the bunker. But for some reason it just turned in on 18 and was the same thing on the second shot. So a bit of misjudged and that cost me three shots, and you know, I'm behind the 8-ball now. I've got to get my guns a-blazing tomorrow.
Q. At 15 you make the great wedge shot out of the sand and the birdie, you're pumping the crowd up. Take us through your emotions coming off 15.
BRYSON DeCHAMBEAU: I was pumped. I was like, all right, in the lead, let's go. Let's keep pressing. Then I just had to calm myself down, which I did quite well, and I executed pretty well on the tee shot. The wind didn't push it left, which was weird to me, and then you know, you know what happened, happened. It was just an unfortunate series of events that I can handle. It's just, it's golf. Sometimes that happens.
Q. Thoughts on what it will take tomorrow?
BRYSON DeCHAMBEAU: All I can do is control what I can control and if I go out and shoot 6-, 7-under, that's what I'm focused on doing. Not that that's what's going to do it, but you never know. But I'm going to shoot as low as I possibly can.
Q. I guess the same theory; when you a guns a-blazing, what will you do differently tomorrow than you did today?
BRYSON DeCHAMBEAU: Nothing. Absolutely nothing. I came out firing.
Made a great 30-footer on the first hole.
Thought I made the putt on the second hole.
I don't know what happened on the third hole. But I made a great par.
Fourth hole almost made it.
Fifth hole, horrible wedge. Done that twice now.
Sixth hole, great par.
Seventh hole, great birdie.
Great birdie on 8.
9, great drive just the wind pumped it that way.
Didn't make birdie on 10.
So just got to clean up a couple things, hit my driver better and give myself more chances.
Q. Does that make it more frustrating knowing you felt like you did everything that you were supposed to do, and it didn't actually work out at times?
BRYSON DeCHAMBEAU: That's why golf is the worst four-letter word in the world.
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