U.S. SENIOR OPEN CHAMPIONSHIP

July 4, 2026

Billy Andrade

Scioto Country Club

Quick Quotes

Q. How does it feel to have a bogey-free round on this course?

BILLY ANDRADE: It feels great. This is not an easy track. If you're off a little bit, you can make bogeys and others, and today I had a nice -- good feel today with my game and drove it nicely and kept it in play and kept everything in front of me and made five birdies and didn't make a bogey. Pretty happy with that.

I finished poorly yesterday. I played the last eight holes, I think I was 5-over, so that really shot me out of it. To come out today and shoot 5-under is great. Pretty cool.

Q. How aggressive do you need to be tomorrow to apply pressure to give yourself a legit shot for Sunday?

BILLY ANDRADE: Well, these guys are so good, I've just got to go out and play the way I played today. If I can get something going, that would be great. We just have to wait and see. Depends on the weather. There's a lot of factors that go into it.

But there's nothing I can do. I just see where they're like 9-under, so I'm well back. But with a low round tomorrow, you never know.

Q. What do you do tonight to stay mentally locked in and be ready for tomorrow?

BILLY ANDRADE: Probably just FaceTime all my family that's in Rhode Island having fun on 4th of July and looking at the water. I don't know, I'm going out to dinner by myself, so maybe another dinner by myself. We'll see.