Senior PGA Championship 2015
Saturday, May 23
Quick Quotes
Bernhard Langer
putt on one of the holes and then the six on 16, which
didn't help. But the finish made up for some of it.
Q. How good did that feel to birdie out on 18? I
saw the little hand gesture afterwards. You were
pretty pumped up for that one.
BERNHARD LANGER: Yeah, I made a stupid bogey, if
you can call it that, on 16. I was 80 yards away for my
third shot, it was an awkward stance on a mound and
all that and just hit it too hard, came out flying and over
the green. So I was a little -- and then I hit a great pitch
shot from over the green and hit a perfect putt that just
didn't break. I played it left edge, thinking it's going to
move and it didn't. So, I wasn't a happy camper
walking off that green, making six there. So, very
pleased with the way I finished. Finished birdie, birdie.
That is a really tough pin on 17 there, because if you
miss your target by two yards, you got nothing. And
that's a lot of the golf course is that way. So I was very
happy with the finish and finishing 2-under par for the
tournament and in the hunt for tomorrow, most likely.
Q. Going into tomorrow, just how important is it to
continue hitting those fairways and giving yourself
a chance?
BERNHARD LANGER: Oh, you can't play very good
from the rough or from these mounds and the bunkers.
So you got to hit the fairways. So that's going to be
one of the keys. Obviously, making putts is always
important, because it's easy to 3-putt on these greens,
there's so many moving putts, there's a lot of putts that
don't just break twice, they break three times. So it's
very difficult to read them and to have the proper speed
as well.
Q. You have to feel very good about your position.
BERNHARD LANGER: Yeah, I mean a 69 is a pretty
good score around here. The course is extremely
demanding. If you don't hit the fairway, you don't know
where you're going to end up. And I did that today. I hit
a lot of fairways, gave myself some opportunities.
There were still a couple of loose swings, but I had
made some great swings. I holed out my second shot
on 8, a 7-iron from 162 yards. I made an eagle there.
That's a wonderful thing. And then I had two of the
worst lipouts ever in my life. On number 3, I hit a putt
that went in on the left, went all the way around and
came out back out this way. So it went 460 degrees, or
450 degrees and not going in. Then I had another one
later on that was a pretty bad lipout as well. All in all it
evens out, I guess, somewhere.
Q. How much of a charge did you get out of the
eagle for the momentum that it gave you the rest of
the day?
BERNHARD LANGER: Oh, it was great. That's one of
the hardest holes out here, number 8. To make a 2
there, you pretty much gain two and a half shots on the
field, which was really a bonus. And I should have
birdied 9, I guess, but I didn't. But going 3-under on the
front nine, I thought I was in a good spot to continue
that kind of play on the back side and couldn't make
the putts, couldn't make the birdies. Then made a 3-
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