And then number 9, I hit a 3-wood off the tee, then a 7-iron from, I think, it was 170 yards. I had that there. It was a little bit down wind. Hit 7-iron to just the back edge of the green but the pin was all the way back. It was only about a 10- foot putt that I had, and made that. That was a nice way to kind of start my tournament, shooting 3-under on the front. It had been a little bit of a long stretch with me with missed cuts my last three events, and so to come out and to get a few under-par early is -- it was tough the last couple rounds I played where I would make a bogey before I would make a birdie and then it seemed like I was battling the entire way. So it was nice to get a couple under- par early.
I then birdied 13. Okay. That one I hit a 3-wood off the tee. It was another 7-iron. From 160 yards I had hit that to probably 15 feet behind the hole. That was, I was pretty happy with that shot. The wind was into us and there's a little creek short and right of the hole, and I was just pretty glad to hit a good smart shot there to the center of the green and left myself a 15-foot putt and made the putt.
Birdied 15. Well, 15 is the one I just told you about. 13, I can't remember for anything. I don't know what happened on 13. I made birdie though. It looks like. 15, just pretend that's what I said for 15. We will go on to 16. Hit an average drive out to the right side of the fairway and hit a great 3-wood. That went on the right side of the green. Pin was all the way left. And it was -- I was able to just 2-putt from there for birdie. And then bogey, oh, I had to end my bogey-free round with a bogey on 18 unfortunately. I drove it in the right rough. Had a terrible lie. Had to just hack out with a sand wedge. And then hit it to about 10 feet and lipped out. It was too bad. It would have been nice to have made that putt. I was, I think I was really putting well. And that's always fun. Regardless of how you hit it, when you putt well you end up playing pretty well. And it helped today. I felt like I was hitting it pretty well. So it was fun having a round like this today.
Q. When you hit 10 feet on 18 what club did you use?
MATT KUCHAR: Sand wedge. From 103 yards I had.
Q. Did your expectations of yourself change after you won at Honda? Did you expect more from yourself?
MATT KUCHAR: I think -- I don't think I expected more. I just got side tracked maybe. I think I had accomplished all the goals I had planned for this year. I had wanted to keep my card was the main goal. I thought it would be nice to win at some point in my career and go ahead and knock that out. I wasn't quite sure what I wanted from there. And I enjoyed life for a little while. Realized that I needed to get back to work. And I think that the game of golf you have, you go in cycles, everybody's going to have highs and lows and throughout history I think if you look, most guys that have something good happen, win tournaments or something, tend to struggle to follow it up. And I think I fell into that category. I kind of think it happened, because I felt like I had experienced that before in college. I had won the Amateur, done well in the Masters and the U.S. Open. And then my junior year I struggled a bit. I think I got caught up doing so many other things besides practicing that my game suffered and it was a similar little fall. I think this one I've, I realized it a little quicker than I did back in my junior year at Georgia Tech. But now I feel like I've gotten back on track, set another new goal for myself and ready to keep going.
Q. What's your new goal?
MATT KUCHAR: New goal, I would like to play in the Tour Championship. That's my new goal.
JOAN vT ALEXANDER: Any more questions.
MATT KUCHAR: All right. Thank you, guys.
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