Media Center Interviews
April 3, 2025
First Round Interview with Jordan Spieth
Q. Jordan, 5 under par, if we can get some comments on your round, including a good stretch there to close it out?
JORDAN SPIETH: Yeah, I thought it was really solid. I put in a lot of work from Tampa and I thought that maybe my finish there didn't quite show how I was actually playing. But I improved a lot week to week in what I needed to in some of my scoring clubs and approach play, which is important going into next week obviously.
I'm just trying to get better and better with that. I need to tighten up the scoring clubs, like some of my wedges, just a little bit more, and there's a couple shot choices, but all in all I'm very pleased.
This is a hard golf course, and we've got good conditions so it was nice to take advantage of that. I think this will be maybe the easiest that we see it for the week.
Q. Jordan, you were grinding on the range Tuesday evening, Wednesday evening. Is it fair to say you found something even over those couple of days that you used today?
JORDAN SPIETH: Yeah, it was maybe more yesterday where it started to get close, and I was saying today before my warmup was good, it was even an improvement off yesterday. I kind of thought maybe I need three or four practice days still. So if I can go to the golf course and maintain what I have and then go improve on what I'm trying to do the next few days next week, then I think I'm going to be in a really good spot.
I drove the ball really, really well. Especially after the first hole could have rattled me a little bit, I hit a 3wood right of the cart path and then I made bogey and missed a fivefooter there. So between tee balls and putting, it was like, oh, man, tough start. Then I really turned it around from there. So yeah, it's been I've been grinding a lot and I got a big stretch coming up, so I was trying to get as ready as I could before it starts.
Q. I know it's a bummer when you're not playing well going to the golf course or when you're injured going to the golf course. How excited are you these days to go to the golf course and compete?
JORDAN SPIETH: Yeah, it's been a little bit of a mixed bag, but I've had way more excited days than I have in the last couple years, really since May of '23 when I first injured my wrist. So it's been way more of those in the last six events than it was before.
I mean, why wouldn't you love what we do? When we have a standard and you're not meeting it, it can be pretty frustrating. Normally you've got to find it in the dirt, sometimes you need some help to do that and I think I'm on the right track and feel good about it.
