“As I’ve at all times mentioned, I’ve gained tournaments hitting out of bounds within the final spherical, l’ve gained tournaments with two double bogeys like at the moment,” he mentioned. “I feel I made six birdies at the moment, so that you’re hoping you are going to make sufficient birdies to beat any of these double bogeys.”
Having birdied the fifteenth to attract stage with Jaidee, he instantly double-bogeyed the subsequent after what he admitted was one in every of his largest faults.
“There was no bother, and it was the best tee shot on the planet,” he mentioned of the sixteenth, the place he hooked his tee shot into bother, chipped out, bunkered his third and took three extra to get down.
“Once I’m overconfident, I’m not nice. I’m significantly better after I’m in bother. That’s simply my character.
“I want it was completely different, and generally it’s good to win straightforward, however even after 16, I knew I used to be enjoying effectively, I knew I used to be hitting the ball effectively. I may end robust.”
He actually wasn’t hoping to get fortunate and pressure a playoff.
“Look, I knew I may end birdie-eagle if I needed to,” he mentioned of his mindset heading to the seventeenth.
Even after hitting a poor tee shot on the 18th, he willed himself to make a birdie 4 from inexperienced aspect sand to win.
“I used to be by no means not getting up and down from there,” he mentioned. “If you’re introduced with a chance, you have to take it.”
Nonetheless, he needed to put himself in bother earlier than producing the shot that mattered.
“I by no means make it straightforward, do not do it easy,” he mentioned. “I feel one in every of my greatest traits in golf is when my again’s to the wall, I am fairly good at taking issues on.
