U.S. OPEN CHAMPIONSHIP 2025

June 14, 2025

Thriston Lawrence

Oakmont Country Club

Quick Quotes

Q. Talk about your round today. It seemed like you were pretty much -- you were even, 1-under or 1-over and you finished 1-over and you're right in the thick of it.

THRISTON LAWRENCE: Yeah, I mean, it was really solid from the get-go. A nice couple of good par saves in the first three holes. It was nice to keep the momentum going.

Then made a nice few birdies, soft three-putt on 8. On 7 I was against the collar and hit a chip past the flag, and I shouldn't have done that. But all around it's been good, a lot of fairways, a lot of greens, and a lot of makeable putts. But again, around this golf course you're not losing shots when you're making par.

On the tough holes, I really try just giving myself the best par opportunity, and I managed to execute it nicely.

Q. Did the weather have anything to do -- it rained for a while. How do you think the course was set up today?

THRISTON LAWRENCE: I was saying just now, it's probably easier to stop the ball on the greens today, but it's tougher to get the ball close to the flags being so soft, especially being firm you have a lot of short irons and you know you can get it closer to the back flags, where today you had to pitch it there, and on this golf course, long is danger on every single hole. It was really tough to be too aggressive, but yeah, definitely soft I would say, maybe a touch easier because everything stays in the fairway if it pitches there and stays on the greens if it pitched there. But you're going to have a lot of long putts, and I felt like the greens were a bit slower, especially the uphill ones, being a little wet.

Long-range putts was tricky to judge, but overall, yeah, I played fairly good.

Q. Tomorrow final round, what's your plan? What do you want to do?

THRISTON LAWRENCE: I mean, it depends on the weather, but I'm an aggressive player. I've always been that way. It's going to be tough for me to be conservative, even if I had to have the lead or whatever. I like to be aggressive. Yeah, being aggressive, being confident, that's going to be the plan.