Q. Traditionally, you start well, you played very well early in the season, is there any particular reason for that?
HARRISON FRAZAR: Well, I think I'm rested and I'm in a good mood to be honest with you. Toward the end of the year, I guess in the middle of the year I start to get frustrated and tired and don't want to really be out there, would rather be doing other things. Golf has never to me within been the No. 1 focus in my life. It's very important to me, don't get me wrong, but when it becomes a point where I don't want to be here and feel like I have to be, then I'm just not going to perform well.
But early in the year, I've taken off time and I'm in a good mood. I hit bad shots, period. I'm not the kind of golfer that can play and play a pretty round and hit the ball great all the time. But if I'm in a good mood, I can handle those things a lot better and be a little bit more optimistic, where if I feel like I have to be there, then one bad shot kind of steamrolls into a whole bunch of others.
Q. Has that feeling changed, especially with kids?
HARRISON FRAZAR: No, not really. I mean, I've always had other things I like to do. They are with me this week. It was brutal getting them over here on the plane, but once we're here, we've had a great time.
Sure, it's hard to leave when you've got two kids at home and they want you at home, yeah. But I've got to do it. It's part of your job. But there are other things that we enjoy doing, too. We like going to the lake during the summer. In the fall, I like going to college football games. There's a lot of things in there that pull at me rather than golf.
So if I'm honest with myself and true to myself and play when I want to play, I do pretty well.
Q. Early in the interview, it sounded like maybe your approach, at least this week or this year, may be a little different that you're not really thinking about the score, you're thinking about your game; is that true?
HARRISON FRAZAR: I would actually say it's probably opposite of that.
I've had so many good shots and so many bad shots and I've played some of my best tournaments hitting bad and some of my worst tournaments hitting good. It just doesn't matter, to be honest with you. I think I'm finally figuring it out. If you're not paying attention to how you're scoring, what good does it do to hit perfect tee shots? You've got to play the golf course and play smart, realize what you're doing well, what you're doing bad and just try to make the most of it as you go along.
So I'm actually focusing less on how I'm hitting it and my golf swing. That's one of the things that my support group, my teacher and my psychologist, everybody around me, what we've all decided this off-season is to spend more time on the scoring aspect of the game and the ball-striking. And who cares, if you hit seven fairways and still manage to shoot even par or 1-under, that's not too bad, because you're going to have your good days. But when you are focussed on your short game and all of the sudden you do start hitting it good, next thing you know, you're not even paying attention, but you shot a 7-under.
Q. Does that make you more of a leaderboard watcher as the tournament progresses?
HARRISON FRAZAR: I don't watch it much. I'll look at it occasionally during the round, more than anything, to try to motivate myself a little bit. If I'm not feeling like I'm getting anything in the hole or if I feel like the golf course is getting hard, I like to look up there and see that, you know, hey, so and so is playing well, this is doable out here, come on. I kind of use it as that frame of reference for myself.
At the same time if you're not playing well, you look at it and you see somebody 12-under and you're sitting at even par, you can beat yourself up over it if you don't look at it the right way. You can think: "I can't reach that." But it depends on how you look at it I guess. I trying to try to look at it in ways that are going to make me feel better.
JOHN BUSH: Thank you, Harrison.
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