TPC Southwind – Past Player Quotes

Jon Rahm: It’s Bermuda rough and sometimes hitting into the rough is not the best option, you can get flyers, you can just lose control of the ball, and end up in a pretty bad spot. It just shows like most of the TPC courses we play throughout the year that tee to green you need to play really good golf. Luckily, it’s one of my strengths. Hopefully, I can keep doing it, but if not off the tee, I think those second shots into the green are extremely important this week. All of the hazards we have in play, most of them are on the second shot. So it’s important that we keep it tight on those iron shots and be smart. You just need to step up there and hit good shots. The scores are out there and you need to shoot low to be able to win here. So you can’t really be scared of the water in that sense.

Justin Thomas: I find this place very similar to East Lake to where if you drive it well, if you hit the fairways, it’s not a very difficult golf course. You have a pretty good amount of short irons and some wedges to where you can control your distance into the greens. Because it’s so important to be putting from below the hole or on the correct side versus when you get in the rough, you’re going to get a lot of flyers or it’s going to be sitting so bad where you can’t get it to the green and you’re trying to get up and down. It’s a place I think off the tee is extremely important because from there you can manage the course pretty well. when you get out of position, you’re really just trying to minimize your damage and not make a big number.

Daniel Berger: You just have to hit it in the fairway, otherwise it’s difficult to get it close and as the week goes on, its going to get firmer and faster so it will be even tougher. The greens feel like I’m just at home and, you know, I love the Bermuda and I don’t even read grain here. I just look at it and see it and it’s just from years and years of putting on it. It’s just extremely long and extremely penalizing.