THE G4D OPEN

May 17, 2025

Lachlan Wood

Press Conference

Q 1-under today, 7-over overall. You must have been pretty chuffed with your effort and desire today to come back.

LACHLAN WOOD: Yeah, I sort of put myself back a long way yesterday. I couldn't get anything going. I battled all day. I put myself back in the pack and I knew I had to do something special today.

I think I had a good plan all week. Threw a different putter in the bag. Came here early and did some work. The front 12 holes were probably flawless, and I think I could have made another four birdies on top of the four I made. But they weren't far off and the putts were a lot closer than they had been other days.

Three bad shot coming in the last stretch, so it cost me about three shots. That was the plan, to shoot 4- or 5-under and put the pressure back on the last group. Looking at the scores now, it didn't matter either way, so take second place.

Q What about, also, the fact that when you were playing those first 12 holes, did you feel super pumped up or you were quietly in the zone? What was your mindset?

LACHLAN WOOD: I know what I need to do, and when I get into that zone, I know how to maintain it. It's just a matter of it all stems back from the putting. If that ball is rolling on the line that I want to see it roll on, then I'm happy to hit shots into pins that you can't get to. My wedges are good. So I feel sort of invincible working back from the green.

But if my putter is not working, it doesn't matter how close I hit it to the hole.

Q Is that your second putter of the week that you changed last night?

LACHLAN WOOD: Could have been the third.

Q Just whatever works, then?

LACHLAN WOOD: A hundred percent. Like I feel -- some people have an old faithful they stick to, and I certainly don't. I've probably got a collection of about 30 or 40 at home, and the one I used the first day I'll literally grabbed at the door on the way to the airport.

Q It comes across as a tough performance from a tough competitor. I mean, is that part of your character? You seem a really gritty player and you're not going to give up and you give a hundred percent.

LACHLAN WOOD: Yeah, I'm beyond crushed to not win this. You know, second place is great and I'm sure everyone is going to be happy for me back home but deep down inside, I'm seething.

Q The ultimate antidote for that is to come back and do the business next year.

LACHLAN WOOD: So I'll go home. Recover. Throw my clubs in the car and I'll be living out of my car playing the Pro-Am circuit in Australia trying to make a dollar so that I can afford to come back next year and compete again.

Q But also, I think your fellow players certainly have a hell of a lot of respect for you, the way you do play. Like you say, your mind is in the right place, just getting that putter working for the whole week, really, isn't it?

LACHLAN WOOD: If I putt well, I'll win. It's a proven fact. If I putt well, I win. I know when I'm putting well, and if I can putt well, steer clear, it's mine.