WGC Dell Technologies Match Play

Wednesday, March 23, 2022

Austin, Texas, USA

Austin Country Club

Alex Noren

Quick Quotes


Q. What was it like watching Louis' putt there at the end?

ALEX NOREN: I was like, if he makes that -- I like Louis and he's a good friend, so I'm like, I'm going to give him a good high five. At the end of the day it's golf, and coming down the stretch you may get quite serious, but yeah, I mean, just a good battle, and I was lucky to come out on top.

Q. You've had a lot of success in match play; what is it that you like so much about this format?

ALEX NOREN: I don't know. I played this course in college, stroke play, and I didn't like it because I didn't play so good here. But then in match play I think it's a great course. Just overall we played a lot of matches growing up as juniors on the national team. It's a nice change and you can hit a wide shot and it doesn't really matter as much. Yeah, it's fun.

Q. Holding your breath there on the 18th. Louis had a chance to get you there with that birdie putt.

ALEX NOREN: Yeah, I was 3-up quite early and I played good, and then kind of stressing out a bit over a few shots in the end. I had a good chance on 17 to get the match finished, probably like an eight-footer or something. It's a bit windy and then you start doubting the reads, and you've just got to go up and do it.

I'm just really happy to get a win out of it.

Q. You also had a chance at 14, as well, kind of that downhill putt from about 15 feet away. You would have been 3-up there at that point.

ALEX NOREN: Yeah, what was I, 3-up after nine, and then I had a four-footer on 10, which I missed for birdie, and then I made two good ones coming down 11 and 12. Yeah, it was a weird match. Like he was kind of always on the back foot but had a chance at the end.

It was really nice to get out of it with a win.

Q. Is this the kind of match that reaffirms this format where just when you think you've got it, you don't, but luckily you did today?

ALEX NOREN: I know, I know. I don't know what it is about match. Yeah, exactly. Sometimes when you're 3-up it goes really your way and you just win it 5 & 4 or it could easily go like this and the tournament feels tough. If I would have tied that one -- you think, oh, I should have just taken that one.

Yeah, it's a fun format, really fun.

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