PGA CHAMPIONSHIP

May 16, 2026

Nick Taylor

Aronimink Golf Club

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THE MODERATOR: Nick Taylor is with us at the 108th PGA Championship. Nick, 65 today. What can you tell us about your third round?

NICK TAYLOR: Everything was very good today. I drove it great on that front nine to give myself a few wedges and be able to go for the 9th hole par-5 in 2.

The iron game was definitely kind of back to myself, in a sense, where it's the strength of my game, and today gave myself a lot of opportunities.

Just hit a lot of greens, gave myself relatively routine pars. It was a steady day. It was comfortable pairing with Corey. I felt we were both rolling it early. Unfortunately, he didn't kind of finish the round off, but it was just a comfortable day, and it was nice to have momentum.

Q. Yesterday Jaeger had no bogeys, no birdies. Then we had Rory with no bogeys and three birdies, and now we have Nick Taylor with no bogeys and five birdies. How difficult is it to do this today?

NICK TAYLOR: Yeah, I don't know. Like you said, no birdies yesterday, but it was kind of a grind of a day, and today just hit it really nice, had a lot of opportunities. I made two great saves on 10 and 12, where I had to kind of wedge it out of the rough and then get up-and-down from 70 to 90 yards, which really kept the round going.

Yeah, bogey-free round around here is no easy task, so I'm proud of that today.

Q. If you had to pick one or two of the birdies today, can you describe it and tell us why they were especially good?

NICK TAYLOR: On the back nine, I made two great birdies. 14 is a tough par-3. Hit a 7-iron in there to go probably 12 feet and made that. And then 16 -- actually, 15 and 16 I was in the rough. I hit 5-wood up and around the green, was long on 16, and I made a really good up-and-down there.

So there was three or four holes there where I could have maybe leveled out the round, but stayed patient and made some great up-and-downs and really turned it into a great round.

Q. Did you leave here last night saying, okay, you can go get it, the first nine? Was that kind of the attitude? It seems like everybody is saying you can score on the front. Is that the goal?

NICK TAYLOR: When it was going to be warmer, it was a slightly different direction with the wind, but I feel like watching this morning, I watched some of the golf, and there was a lot of birdies out there. So you kind of knew that some of the pin locations were a little more accessible.

Corey and I both made three or four birdies on that front nine, and I had that momentum going. And I feel like the back nine here, you kind of try to hold on to what your score was on that front nine. You're going to have a couple opportunities, but there's a lot of difficult holes. So to kind of make a bunch of pars there was key on that back nine.

Q. I'm curious, do you look at leaderboards out there, and if so, could you possibly figure out the leaderboard you are looking up at?

NICK TAYLOR: I think it's so bunched, it's kind of pointless. I'll definitely be aware late tomorrow, if I'm in that position. But with so many things going on, it's just a distraction if you start looking at it.

Luckily I'll have a chance tomorrow, whatever that will be, and we'll kind of take it from there.