U.S. SENIOR OPEN CHAMPIONSHIP

June 27, 2025

David Toms

The Broadmoor (East Course)

Quick Quotes

Q. It's been an up-and-down couple of days. How good did it feel to get that birdie on the last hole?

DAVID TOMS: It was definitely an up-and-down day today. It was yesterday, too. I doubled the first hole yesterday; played from behind. But that's the type of course it is. If you're not on top of your game on all facets -- you see good scores, but those are guys that drive it in the fairway, hitting it on the green and making all their eight-foot putts. I'm not really doing a whole lot of any of that consistently.

Q. You've obviously seen this course plenty and the history back in 2018. Anything different that you've seen from how it's playing?

DAVID TOMS: It's not quite as firm. I'd say it's playing a little bit longer overall, but still, same tough greens. You have a little spin factor, where we didn't have too many balls spinning back. I remember that.

Now if you hit short shots you have a lot of spin on the ball and it's hard to get close to some of the holes. That's the biggest difference with the rain that we've had.

Q. As you're going through some of the later holes there, knowing what you did in 2018 and knowing you're right on that bubble with the cut, is that a factor in your mind at all, a pressure?

DAVID TOMS: Well, professional golf has always been about playing on the weekend, and you just never know what can happen. Obviously you don't get paid if you don't play on the weekend. It makes you feel awful. It makes you feel like a failure for the week basically.

To come back here as the defending champion on this golf course, certainly it would mean a lot to me to at least play on the weekend. Knowing that I didn't come in here with my "A" game, I haven't played well so far, but still to be able to play on the weekend would be a bonus for me.

Q. Talk to us about that last putt; what was the yardage? What was in your head?

DAVID TOMS: It was one of those yardages where I had an 8 or a 9. I didn't think I could get a 9 all the way up that hill, so I kind of had to hit a low kind of knock-down 8. That's why I jumped up the hill like that, and it came out perfect. I couldn't ask for a better shot to end the day.

Q. About how far do you think?

DAVID TOMS: I think it was about four and a half feet, and I hadn't made many of those the last two days, so it was kind of treacherous, and it was downhill, too. It didn't really matter if I ran it by because I knew I needed to make it, so that made it a little bit easier.

Q. Do you feel a sense of relief?

DAVID TOMS: Yeah, I think so, to be able to hit a good shot under pressure. I played 17 really well, hit the fairway, hit it right on the front of the green, almost made birdie there. Played 16 really well. I played pretty solid golf down the stretch knowing I had to make a couple birdies.