ZURICH CLASSIC OF NEW ORLEANS

April 24, 2021

Doug Ghim

Justin Suh

TPC Louisiana

Quick Quotes

Q. You kind of stumbled on the way home on Friday night and still were able to play so well. What was your mentality?

JUSTIN SUH: For me personally, the first few holes I got off to a slow start, and after 1 -- I hit it out of bounds on 1, lost my ball and Doug made a birdie. But when we were walking over to 2 he looks at me and he's like, let's just have a birdie game. After that it kind of freed me up. I think freed both of us up to get a little more aggressive to get things moving on Saturday.

You know, we just strategized really well. We really ham-and-egged it, but we're just looking forward to continuing tomorrow.

Q. Doug, there's something about this format, you play a hole without your partner, and that puts extra pressure on him; is that right?

DOUG GHIM: Yeah, I mean, for sure. You just feel a little added weight because there's obviously -- usually it's just me and my caddie that have high hopes for our golf ball. To know that there's two extra people there counting on you, obviously it could be a season changer, especially for Justin who doesn't have membership out here. It would mean a lot to me to get a buddy out here and kind of birth his career out here.

Q. What are some holes we should be looking at coming in? All the par-3s are difficult it seems.

DOUG GHIM: Yeah, this whole golf course is pretty long in general, but the par-5s in this format are always going to be gettable, but I think the par-3s are really what are going to separate it because when you make a bogey in this format, it really, really hurts because you've usually got two really good ball strikers, two really good players. You would think that one of them would make par.

So I think 17 would definitely be -- could be something that keeps your round together or something that makes your round fall apart.

Q. Justin, this is your sixth, seventh start on the PGA TOUR; what's your mentality going into the final round?

JUSTIN SUH: Just to help him out as much as I can, not to put him in tough positions. This has been a lot of fun. I'm really glad that Doug chose me to come and be his partner for this week. It's been a lot of fun over the past few days, and we're just looking to play good golf tomorrow.

Q. Who won the birdie count today?

JUSTIN SUH: I did.

DOUG GHIM: It's the easiest 60 bucks I can pay him, a $20-a-birdie game.

Q. Was that your way of motivating him I'm guessing?

DOUG GHIM: Yeah, if you play well on your own ball -- it's so easy to get caught up in if he's in good position then I relax, but it's like if we're really trying to attack each other, the best way to be competitive and the best way to get us competitive is to play against each other, which we're used to doing at home. And so I thought if he was going to be competitive with me, I knew I was going to bring my game, so he'd better step in and win his. He ended up beating me, so that's always good.

Q. You can put yourself right back into it. What did you learn yesterday? It was kind of an up-and-down round on a difficult format. What did you learn that you can maybe take to Sunday?

JUSTIN SUH: I think the past two days we haven't played the back nine very well, and I think it started out not making a birdie on 11 where we've had ourselves a good chance on each day, and we birdied it today, and then we had a completely different back nine. It kind of gets us into a groove of getting the ball rolling on that back nine, seeing putts fall, but just like that back nine, the wind actually helped on a few of those holes, but just got to hit fairways and greens.

Q. What was your walk-up music today?

DOUG GHIM: "Father Stretch My Hands" Part 1 by Kanye West.

Q. Will you do the same one? Are you superstitious?

DOUG GHIM: Yeah, might as well. I'm from Chicago, and he didn't really same to care, so I was just going to keep it going.

JUSTIN SUH: It worked today.