Q.  Unfortunately, just fell short on the last hole.

NICK CULLEN:  Yeah, just a poor tee shot.  Knocked it in there in the water and couldn’t save par.  Apart from that, played really well, just tricky finish.

Q.  What made your game suit this course?  What part of your game was your strength?

NICK CULLEN:  I hit a lot of really good wedge shots.  I probably hit four or five wedge shots within four or five feet, so definitely helped scoring.  Pretty tricky to hole putts, the greens are sort of moving around the place.  Didn’t really hole much outside that, so I needed to hit it close to make some birdies.

Q.  What was the mentality coming out of Q‑School, mate, and obviously didn’t quite keep your card this year, but ‑‑

NICK CULLEN:  Wasn’t even close to keeping my card.  Look, didn’t play well this year.  Had a little girl, she’s five months old, so different sort of pressure, I guess, with that.  For me, it’s ‑‑ yeah, I’m not in a great position status‑wise, so I have to play well this week or I’m not sure where I’ll be next year.

Q.  Did you feel coming into this week that you made some ground at home and did some good things?

NICK CULLEN:  Yeah, yeah, I had a lesson with Brad Hughes just before I left the States.  Drove over to Greenville, South Carolina, to see him and just been working on his stuff the last couple weeks.  Really feels like it’s starting to come together.  I drive it really well sort of after I switched to his stuff, but didn’t hit my irons as well, so starting to hit some really good iron shots, too.

Q.  What did Brad try and address?  What was the starting point?

NICK CULLEN:  His stuff’s a little different.  You’ve probably ‑‑

Q.  Proving pretty popular.

NICK CULLEN:  It’s really good.  To me, it feels a bit more old school.  To me, it feels more what I used to do.  The stuff I was trying to do just wasn’t converting.  Been trying to get my backswing better and this and that and it just wasn’t working, so he’s a lot about impact and sort of pressure into the ground.  Yeah, it’s sort of working a bit better for me.

Q.  May I ask your daughter’s name and how much time you got to spend with her the last five months?

NICK CULLEN:  Her name is Adelaide.  The last couple months have been really good.  The first two or three I was away a lot so that was really hard, but the last couple months have been great.  Just seeing that smile, it’s just everything.

Q.  Are they here this week with you?

NICK CULLEN:  No.  Unfortunately, my mom convinced them to stay back in Adelaide and she’ll take them shopping and stuff rather than sort of hanging out in a hotel room waiting for me to finish.  Got a better offer.

Q.  What do you consider your hometown, Nick?

NICK CULLEN:  Look, technically Adelaide, but I try and spend my off time in Atlanta, try and be with Megan and Addie.  So that’s sort of ‑‑ that’s more where I spend my time.  Still going through the green card stuff, so still got to get that sorted.

Q.  Did you need to christen your daughter Adelaide to remind you of home?

NICK CULLEN:  No.  I always liked the name, and because she doesn’t live there, I think it’s sort of ‑‑ it was really nice.  I was really happy with it, Megan loves the name.  Sort of tricky in the U.S., no one knows what they’re saying and they sort of make up their own names when you say it, but whenever I’m back here everyone knows what I’m saying, so it’s nice.

Q.  (No microphone.)

NICK CULLEN:  Adelaide, Adelyn, just Addie anything.  They just make it up.

Q.  So you say next year’s a little bit of a mystery box where you play?

NICK CULLEN:  Yeah, I’ve got four Challenge Tour, but I did that for about a year and a half and it’s a pretty tough grind, especially traveling from out of the U.S. or Australia, it’s really tough.  I try and be back in my off weeks, I don’t like sitting around a week in the middle of Spain or something when I could be spending it with my family.  Way too many plane trips and just spending a lot of money doing it, so it’s not really feasible and enjoyable.  Yeah, we’re going to sort of have a think over Christmas and sort of work out what the plan is next year and go from there.

Q.  When you look at the Australian Tour, there’s no more Perth Super 6 and I think New Zealand PGA doesn’t exist anymore.

NICK CULLEN:  Yeah.

Q.  Have you really got to look at all the alternatives to come up with a schedule?

NICK CULLEN:  Well, I definitely plan on coming back and playing the events early in Oz.  I want to play Vic Open, New Zealand Open.  I saw Queensland’s just before that.  I’m sorry?  Yeah, Queensland PGA is before that and I think there was another one as well.  Yeah, definitely plan on coming back and playing some of those and then just have to sit down over Christmas and see where we’re at.

Q.  What was the better of your birdies today?  You hit some wedge shots nice and close.  Anything you’re really pleased with?

NICK CULLEN:  Yeah, look, I guess 15, 16, 17, three birdies in a row.  Hit it to maybe four feet on 15, holed a putt from just off the green on 16, which was probably the only one outside maybe six feet I holed today, and then knocked it to about six feet again on 17 and tapped that in.