RYAN ARMOUR: It's hard. I got tired.
Q. Did you get tired?
RYAN ARMOUR: Yeah, I got tired. I had to start eating stuff. It was hot. It was gross.
SPEAKER: It was worse this morning than it was yesterday.
RYAN ARMOUR: How is that possible?
SPEAKER: No air; no wind.
Q. Just talk about the round in general. You had it going with 3-under.
RYAN ARMOUR: Yeah, I had it there. My mentality is to keep pushing, and I made a couple of aggressive swings off the tee that led to bogeys. I kept trying -- I wanted to make more birdies.
Around here, you start being real aggressive, they come up and bogeys find you. So we kind of reared back, started playing par golf again, made a really good 15-footer for par on 8, which kind of kept that momentum.
But golf course is great. USGA has done a great job on setup. I wish Mother Nature would cooperate, tone it down a little, but it's all right.
SPEAKER: We had the same weather ten years ago.
RYAN ARMOUR: Did you really?
SPEAKER: Same exact weather. It was 104.
Q. This is your first Senior Open, right up the street from where you played collegiate golf. How does it feel playing in your first major championship in such a familiar area?
RYAN ARMOUR: For the first Senior Open, it's amazing to be here in Scioto. Just so many people. Even the people who have retired from the club are out here watching me. They have such a good community here, the membership's great. Plus I could see all my old teammates. They're working in the area. It's awesome.
Q. Going off of that, for the first two rounds you were paired with two former grads, Hicks from Michigan and someone from Wisconsin. How does it feel to see some familiar faces out there having played against them in college?
RYAN ARMOUR: I mean, that's going back a long time. I do run into Justin down in South Florida once in a while, so I see him. And he's been playing some really good golf lately.
David, I haven't seen much the last 25, 30 years. Such a great guy. It was so good to catch up and hear about his daughters. It was a pleasant walk, let's just say that.
Q. I guess we could forgive guys from Wisconsin and where?
RYAN ARMOUR: Michigan.
Q. I don't know about that one. You're through the weekend now. That's always the first goal, right?
RYAN ARMOUR: Yes, it is, absolutely. You set winning right up there. You can't win if you're not there on Saturday. You've got to get to Saturday.
Q. Just talk about the birdies today.
RYAN ARMOUR: 10, actually hit it about a yard in the rough on 10. Drew a great lie, 9-iron to about two feet; made that. So that got the day started.
12, I hit a good number to get to the front edge, just didn't have a real good lie in the fairway. So I laid it up, hit a wedge in there to like 12 feet and made it.
Q. You made two in a row.
RYAN ARMOUR: Then 3 and 4. 3, my caddie did not love me trying to fly it up top there on 3. I'm like, no, we've got a backstop up there. Sure enough, the backstop worked, but had I missed that backstop, I see why he didn't want me to fly it up top. So hit it in there to about three feet.
Then hit a really good 7-iron hole high to about 10 feet on 4 and made that.
Q. What was your yardage?
RYAN ARMOUR: On 4?
Q. Yes.
RYAN ARMOUR: We were playing for a 171 comedown. I can't remember what the number was, 187 maybe was the hole.
Q. It was a nice round of golf.
RYAN ARMOUR: It was good. It was solid. A couple of bad swings, I'm not going to lie. I made three poor swings off the tee, and other than that, it was okay.
Q. Even par here, take that.
RYAN ARMOUR: Thanks.
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