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Phichaksn Maichon

The craziness of it all, I guess (is what stood out about regionals). I was scrolling through the phone the whole back nine, we were down like 14 through nine. So it was just a miracle that we all came back from it. Good golf can take care of itself, but I’m still trying to wrap it in my head. It’s just a story that can never be made up. When the kid from Clemson made it (his 60-foot playoff putt), all I had to do was just laugh at it. And then I was just trying to par, to not lose by two because it’s not match play it’s stroke play. So if I don’t par that putt it would have been over. I was just trying to get it close and hope that we can play another hole, but it was mainly luck that it went in. I mean, it was a perfect speed, but there’s nothing I can say…if you put me there to putt 50 more times, I don’t know if I could make it one more time. But it was just trust in God and it went in.

Last year (at Grayhawk) we kind of got beat up a little bit. It was the first year there, it was my first year as a freshman, so I kind of got beat up by the course. I didn’t know how fast and firm it was. I wasn’t really used to that kind of green. It was definitely a harder for me to putt over there. But this year we’ve kind of got the mojo of the greens and how the course is being played, and so we worked on the stuff that we think should help us on the course–hitting a couple of two irons, a couple more firm putts and the speed control. Overall, you still want to play right in front of you, try to keep it in the fairway and get on the greens as much as you can. Know that par will not kill you at all out there. You’re probably making up shots by making pars.