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THE PLAYERS CHAMPIONSHIPMay 8, 2015Rory McIlroyPONTE VEDRA BEACH, FLORIDA Q. I thought you played very conservative, very smart. Kept your lines perfectly. But talk about taking on the 16th hole in that second shot. RORY McILROY: Yeah, on 16 I just -- I didn't want to cut the ball as much as I did. I just overcut it, got a little bit ahead of it. So obviously with that hole and with that pin position, you want to err on the left side. I just spun out of it too much and got the ball curving too much from left to right, and I made bogey there. But as you said, felt like I was parring the place to death out there for the most part and picking up my birdies when I could. I'm only four back going into the weekend, so a lot can happen, and I feel like I'm in a decent position after two days. Q. How would you describe the difference between the way you played the front and back? RORY McILROY: Score-wise they weren't that much different, but I need to just start to hit greens on this front nine. That's really the -- I scrambled a lot. I made a lot of good up-and-downs, good pars, and the back nine I felt like I gave myself plenty of chances, hit a lot of greens and didn't quite convert any. I guess the tale of two halves in some ways, but even par for me on this front nine is a decent effort. I was happy to birdie 9 and disappointed not to at least pick up a shot coming in there. But anything under par is a decent score, and right in there going into the weekend. Q. Talk about laying up there; were you bothered by (inaudible)? RORY McILROY: No, not really. No, I just hung it out there to the right with the tee shot. Second shot I was, I was aiming considerable distance left of the green. I was aiming it basically on the right edge of those trees and the bunker, and I just put a bit too much cut on it. I'd like to have that shot over again, but I limited the damage, only made a bogey. That's what you sort of have to do around this course, just keep the mistakes to a minimum and pick off your birdies where you can. Q. There was quite a lot of movement and stuff. Does that bother you? RORY McILROY: You know, it'll be nice tomorrow with twoballs being able to sort of find a little bit more rhythm out there. It did feel very slow, even after our start and having to -- we had a few times on the first few holes and caught up with the group ahead pretty quickly. Yeah, I mean, it's sort of normal these days, five five-and-a-half-hour rounds for the first two rounds of a PGA TOUR event, and that's just sort of the way it is. Q. (Inaudible.) RORY McILROY: Steady. It was okay. I mean, I was pretty bored out there. I'm not sure how you guys felt about watching it (laughing). Just try and hit fairways, hit greens, pick off my birdies when I could. Yeah. Q. You came on very strong on the weekend last year. Do you feel like after being pretty far down -- RORY McILROY: Yeah, I mean, I think I birdied the last three holes last year just to make the cut, so a little more comfortable feeling on Friday night. I'd take those two scores that I shot over the weekend last year again and see where I stand at the end of it. FastScripts Transcript by ASAP Sports |
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