SANDERSON FARMS CHAMPIONSHIP

October 2, 2025

Danny Walker

Country Club of Jackson

Quick Quotes

Q. Must feel pretty good to get in with a 7-under 65. How special was that round for you today?

DANNY WALKER: Yeah, it was really good. It was really just the putter got heated up. That was probably my best putting round of the year I would imagine. I didn't verify that statistically, but it sure felt like it was. So yeah, that was really the difference. I just made a bunch of putts.

Q. Everyone is saying the greens are pretty good.

DANNY WALKER: Yeah, they're really good surfaces, so if you're putting good, you can make a lot.

Q. Talk about 14 and 15 in your round. On 14 it looked like the ball was headed in the trees but it bounced out and was pretty favorable?

DANNY WALKER: Yeah, it's felt like I've had a lot of breaks not go my way the last few months, so I think today there was one or two times - that was the main one - where I think I kind of got a little bit of that back. That was a really good break for sure.

Q. 15, the strategy there, you went with driver, hit it in -- I don't know what the lie was like with your second shot --

DANNY WALKER: The lie was fine, it was just an awful shot. I was fine hitting it over there. I looked at that area and figured right was okay. I just didn't execute the shot. Bounced back from that and finished up the round well.

Q. Can you explain, you started the year pretty well, good finish at THE PLAYERS and seemed to be on your way. You've come in here off eight missed cuts. What's the mindset for you going through that process and getting here and now shooting a good score?

DANNY WALKER: Yeah, it's really hard when you've missed a bunch of cuts to not go into a week and all you're thinking about is hoping you're make the cut, and that's kind of where it got to. When all you're thinking about is results, especially you're not coming to a tournament just to make the cut -- it really got in my head, and I felt like going into this week I finally got in a place where I just wasn't really worried about that.

I made sure I worked really, really hard the last couple weeks in my time off so I could come here and just kind of trust what I had done and not worry about what the results were going to be as much.

Q. How did you get to that place? Did you get to it on your own? Did you have some help? How did that process work?

DANNY WALKER: A lot of it was on my own. I did have a quick call with Rotella maybe two weeks ago. Nothing was earth shattering. It's just the stuff I already know, just kind of reiterating it.

But whenever I do get a chance to talk to him, it makes me just be a little more self-reflective afterwards.

I think the biggest part of it was just really kind of stepping up my preparation at home before I got here so I didn't feel like I had to do as much Monday to Wednesday. I felt like I was already kind of prepared once I got here. I just had to learn the course and that was it.

Q. What was the highlight for you today out there?

DANNY WALKER: I don't know. There was a lot of putts that I'd say were highlights. Maybe the last one just to cap off the round.