U.S. SENIOR OPEN CHAMPIONSHIP

June 29, 2025

Shane Bertsch

The Broadmoor (East Course)

Quick Quotes

Q. What was your round like today?

SHANE BERTSCH: It's always tough starting on that 10th hole. It's one of toughest holes. Of course I had a lie where I was standing on my head, looked like a good drive because it went too far.

Like I was saying earlier, with the different wind it makes the course play different so the ball is going into kind of places where we didn't expect it.

So I started with a quick bogey, then I hung in there for a while, hung in there, hung in there. A 2-over round is good. All in all, a 2-over round was good today. Today was a great 2-over. Yesterday was a poor 2-over.

Q. What was your goal like today? Did you hit that goal of what you wanted to do?

SHANE BERTSCH: I wanted to shoot under par today. Anything under par today. It would have been nice to get two rounds under par here. You get behind, and it's hard to kind of keep going. I did do some good things today. I could have easily tanked it and shot 5- or 6-over.

I wasn't hitting it that good. I was just missing the fairways today. I hit them all yesterday. It seemed kind of easy. That's why it's easy to be disappointed. I was like it's not that hard from the fairway.

When you're in the rough like today, I couldn't go to the green, couldn't get to the green from the rough. It's tough to get out of the rough.

Q. Overall, what did you take from the weekend?

SHANE BERTSCH: I've just got to keep working on my putting. My ball striking has been good. It's a different atmosphere with the U.S. Open. It's great to see people out and stuff. I play a tournament pretty much every single week. It wasn't extra nervy or anything. It just was a good week.

It's nice to make the cut because we don't have many cuts anymore. Anything can happen in these conditions. You can make a triple any time, and you're pretty much done. I don't think I made any doubles this week. That's kind of good to kind of avoid those.

All in all, it was a week that I know what I need to do going forward to get my year back on track. So this week just kind of confirmed that.