TRANSCRIPT | Paul Casey, 2019 Emirates Australian Open, Round 3 - PGA of Australia

TRANSCRIPT | Paul Casey, 2019 Emirates Australian Open, Round 3


Paul Casey, 2019 Emirates Australian Open, Round 3

KATHIE SHEARER:  Great finish, birdie on the last all ready for tomorrow?

PAUL CASEY:  Yeah, it was a flat day, I just never really got going, not much to really say, I didn’t do a hell of a lot wrong but when I had opportunities, I didn’t capitalise and there was obviously a couple of errors in there.  But how do you get around this course without making errors? 

So, Matt played fantastic golf I thought, really good stuff and if he plays like that tomorrow then I think he’ll probably be a bit too tough, because I’m too far back probably, but we’ll see.  I played a wonderful round of golf on Friday; I need to try and replicate that tomorrow.

Q.  Rare for good players to have poor rounds back to back – not that today was a poor round, but you expect them to have a hot round somewhere.  You had one on Friday, is there another one out there tomorrow?  Is there a low number in this course still tomorrow?

PAUL CASEY:  Well, Pampling’s done a 61 round here, hasn’t he?

Q.  A 64 today.

PAUL CASEY:  There you go.  Without question, there is, but you have to be precise, maybe a little bit of good fortune here and there.  It’s amazing, it’s just the little things and I think one of the things I struggled with today was just getting the wind direction right.  It felt like I was in between clubs a lot of the time and some days you just get that and some days everything clicks.  So, I’m not worried.  As I say, I hit some really, really nice shots today.  I just need the fortune to turn around.  The game that infuriates us, sometimes it gives back on occasions as well. Maybe it can give back tomorrow.

Q.  Last one from me.  The numbers suggest that the front nine you hang onto your hat and the back nine you can make a score.  Does it feel like that to the players and are we in perhaps for some fireworks late in the day tomorrow?

PAUL CASEY:  You say that, I agree with you about the front being maybe tougher, but then I birdied my last four holes, which was 6, 7, 8 and 9 on Friday, to finish off my round.  There are some other opportunities on that front side.  If you get through that front side at 2 or 3 or 4-under, you could have an absolute flyer.  What was the rest of the question?

Q.  Is the potential for fireworks late in the day tomorrow?   For us as spectators, to see perhaps a bit of a shoot-out.

PAUL CASEY:  Yeah, hopefully those fireworks are all birdies and eagles.  I felt for Dimitrios today, he hit a guy in the shoulder or arm and then it went in the water and then stuck up a tree on 13 or 12 or whatever.  You can’t make that stuff up.

Q.  No other game could do it to you.

PAUL CASEY:  No, brutal.  He handled it beautifully though, great attitude.  Hopefully those fireworks are positive stuff tomorrow and not negative.  Hopefully there are.  Matty had some great playing during the middle part of his round and the crowd got going a bit, but it feels like it’s been a bit flat.  We need something.

Q.  Thanks for the entertainment so far.

PAUL CASEY:  Thanks mate.


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