RBC CANADIAN OPEN

June 7, 2025

Matteo Manassero

TPC Toronto at Osprey Valley (North Course)

Quick Quotes

Q. 64. What did you like about your round?

MATTEO MANASSERO: Basically everything. It was a really good round. I played well from tee to green, but I did that yesterday too. It's hard to say anything wasn't how I wanted it because I need to look at the bigger picture and I'm going to be standing in a really nice position.

I will focus onto that, and today was just really good.

Q. First time on this course. How does this course set up nicely with your game?

MATTEO MANASSERO: When I first saw it, I thought it was a long course, and then we played it with a different wind. So I thought I'm going to have to play really well to do well this week. But then I guess the greens not being that firm helps my ball flight. That suits kind of my game more than really, really firm greens.

Yeah, overall the main thing is I'm playing solid, and my tee-to-green game has been good, and that's the main thing at the end.

Q. Coming off the bogey on 17 and not an ideal tee shot on 18, what was the self-talk like coming up on the second shot just trying not to let things go sideways at day's end?

MATTEO MANASSERO: That's basically how it is. I missed the short one on 17, and I did miss a couple more short ones today. I try to think of them just like a shot really, like a driver, like a 6-iron, whatever. It's just a shot. So I don't want it to get in my head, and I don't want that to ruin anything or my attitude going towards the next shots.

Today obviously going well, it helped all of that thought process. It wasn't that hard for me to stay focused into what I was doing and not ruining, as you say, at the end.

I could have missed it on 18. That's how golf is. Sometimes it's hard. We try our best to stay in our best possible attitude, but it's not always the case.

Q. Just to continue on at 18, you hit that great shot into the green as well after laying up. Just take us through what you saw over that and what your intentions were.

MATTEO MANASSERO: Luckily I've had basically the same yardage the last two days. This would have been the third day in a row that I'm hitting a very similar shot. So I had the shot in mind really well.

It was a shot that doesn't spin very much, which helps because obviously the green receives uphill, and it was just executing the shot that I have been doing for the last two days on 18. So, yeah, that helped.

Q. Bounce back birdie, resiliency has been a theme throughout your career as it's been a bit of a roller coaster at times. How have the good times and bad times formed you not only as a golfer, but as a person, as you've had this pretty remarkable journey through pro golf?

MATTEO MANASSERO: It's definitely made me more mature and much better perspective towards golf, which at one point was everything. The results oriented, which I discover being not a very good thing for my game and for me.

So I switched away from that, and I try to get a good attitude, a good thought process, talk well to myself. Very basic things, but that's what I learned alongside a lot of other things that I long to get into the details.

But I've matured a lot, and I have a better perspective towards, for example, a day like tomorrow.

Q. Speaking of tomorrow, what do the next couple of hours look like for you just having a chance to win this thing tomorrow?

MATTEO MANASSERO: The next couple of hours?

Q. Throughout tonight going into your prep for tomorrow.

MATTEO MANASSERO: I'm going to do some putts now. Then I'm going to go rest and basically try to do exactly the same things I've been doing until today. They've been working. That's what I do all the time, and I wouldn't want to change anything.

It's going to be an early dinner. It's going to be maybe I'll watch basketball tonight, I guess, yeah. Go to sleep whenever I'll sleep, and then tomorrow same stuff.