Q. There was a lot of support out there from Italians from the Italian Canadian community. How did that make you feel?
MATTEO MANASSERO: Nice. Italians are everywhere, it seems like. Whenever they see the flag up, they're always supportive. I could definitely hear them. They were loud. It was really nice to go around and have that support and feeling that. It was great.
Q. You mentioned yesterday a big part of the last couple years for you has not been fixating on the results but just kind of taking your game and the experience in totality. What do you take away from this week?
MATTEO MANASSERO: It was a nice week. My game is trending the right direction for sure, and I think to ultimately end up winning tournaments, you need to go through days like this in which you learn how to maybe improve something that could possibly be improved.
Today my game probably wasn't as good as the other days. I guess that's something that you can only feel and experience when you're under that kind of pressure on a Sunday to play for a PGA TOUR event. So I will take that in and know the stuff I have to work on and just keep doing what I'm doing.
If I got to a Sunday like this, it means that I'm doing something right. So I'll just keep at it, and hopefully I get another chance, and I'll be more prepared.
Q. How close do you feel to being in that form where you can get the job done on a Sunday here?
MATTEO MANASSERO: There is a lot of things that go in between me saying I'm close. Today I was close enough. I was up there. For most of the round, I was kind of not far from the leader, but then I didn't finish that well.
It's just a few shots here and there. A few feels that get in the way of maybe hitting the shot that you like in the right moment. It's little things when your game is going well, but those little things make the difference. I don't know, I can't tell you how far, though.
Q. Just going back to today, Sam Burns obviously turned in a really low round early. In what ways, if at all, did that kind of change the complexion of how you looked at the golf course today? Did that make you have to play more aggressively or did you try to stay within yourself?
MATTEO MANASSERO: No, I took it for granted that someone was going to go low. It always is the case. The level is really high. People are there to try and win tournaments, and they're really good.
So I was expecting to see someone getting to, I don't know, whatever number, but I knew that I had to make a good round like the other days. Couldn't do it, not good enough, but it didn't change my plan for sure, no.
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