THE MODERATOR: We're here with Cameron Percy at the 2025 Senior PGA Championship. 1-under on the day, 6-under overall. How was it out there today?
CAMERON PERCY: It was really hard to start with, and then it kind of felt like the wind settled down a bit, and then I actually had some good holes downwind, and I didn't get up-and-down on 9. 10, I hit a terrible shot and didn't get up-and-down. Then I three-putted 11, which was a really tough pin. I missed out on birdieing 9 and 11 which would have given me a nice little buffer there. Then I had a good chance on 12 and it spun off. I could have put a bit of a gap on them, but I didn't. But that's golf.
Then it got really windy at the end there, so that's going to be fun this afternoon.
Q. We were talking with Søren, and you mentioned yesterday the motivation of playing with someone who's playing well and chasing him. It kind of worked for him, too. It was like a duel between the two of you?
CAMERON PERCY: Yeah, we both birdied 7 and 8 and he actually birdied 9 and 11. He actually laid up and wedged it close, which where I was, it was almost easier from the fairway 100 yards away because the pins were just really crazy. He got on a real roll there. I'm like, geez, he's playing good again.
He didn't hole any long putts today. He hit it really, really close today.
Q. Completely different conditions yesterday to today. Maybe the weekend is going to be different. How are you adapting to all these things?
CAMERON PERCY: Yeah, the temperature went up and down. The first hole was only 250 yards of carry or something, and it was really cold and windy, and I couldn't carry it. Normally I get a 3-wood over that. I'm like, oh, God. Then the next hole I hit a 6-iron normal distance. I'm like, that's weird. Then 9 next hole went 320 yards. So it was really tricky to judge.
You get down in the tree lines and you can't feel the wind, and then you walk 200 yards and it's blowing like crazy. There's a big flag over here, you're trying to find that all the time just to see how windy it is.
Q. You've heard of the expression before, good wind player. Do you consider yourself a good wind player, and what makes a good wind player?
CAMERON PERCY: Yeah, I'm a drawer, I sort of trap-draw it, so I can get the ball -- I don't hit any sort of -- into the wind I can really knock the ball down, I think.
A wind like this didn't really affect my ball too much today. Left-to-right winds, everyone hates left-to-right winds but I don't mind them because I hit a trap draw and I can hold them pretty easily.
I think the wind definitely helps me.
Q. Is that a good Aussie upbringing?
CAMERON PERCY: Yeah. Well, I lived in Melbourne and it was always windy so you had to sort of do that. I just naturally shot it down. So I go with it. I draw it quite a bit.
On the last hole today it was in off the left, and I just hit a nice drive and a lob wedge, so it was fine.
Q. But when it's cold, even though the wind might not be as heavy as when it's warm, does just being cold --
CAMERON PERCY: Yeah, like warming up today -- well, the fairway is very wet, and I was hitting woods at a bunker that I've been hitting over and they were coming up short, and I'm like, oh, geez, it is really heavy. Then we got on the 1st and I normally blow it out of the bunker no worries and it came up short in the bunker. Yeah, that was pretty tough.
Q. It's part of golf, early-late, late-early, but if you could design it, is it a great feeling to play well late Thursday, well Friday morning, and then you get a lot of rest now --
CAMERON PERCY: I do, and then today I was off latish, so I got my alarm set for 6:00, so that's not too early to get up. The guys off at 7:00 were probably up at 4:30-ish or something, so definitely much better.
I was pretty happy with the draw when I saw it.
Q. You can rest now --
CAMERON PERCY: Oh, yeah, I'm not going to be doing much. I'll go to the physio and he can put me together. I hit a shot on 16 and -- there's no first cut, so my ball was against this kind of stuff. I thought I could hit it, but obviously I couldn't because I nearly killed someone. It only went like 120 yards. I hit a 5-iron into 16, and I hit it on the 14th green, and I tweaked something, so I'll have to go to the physios and see what they can do for that.
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