Q. Matt, great playing, 25 under over four days. What positives can you take out of this week?
MATT KUCHAR: Yeah, listen, I played some good golf. I think I played 71 really good holes. It kind of turns out to be the difference, you need to play 72 good holes out here. I had one jump up and get me.
Q. Does it give you a lot of confidence moving forward that you said coming into the week you were confident about where your game is and you were able to capitalize on that?
MATT KUCHAR: Yeah, yeah, I felt good. I think as anybody knows, you never know when you wake up the next morning if golf will still be there for you.
I've felt good now for a while. I felt like this is kind of the best ownership I've had of my golf swing and kind of what I'm doing with the golf ball. Held steady all week. A good solid week of golf for me.
Q. How do you at analyze those last few holes that you played there?
MATT KUCHAR: I'm pretty bummed. You come out with a great chance to win a golf tournament and the goal is to win a golf tournament. But I hold my head held high. Erik played incredible golf.
I'll probably look back and maybe I should have been slightly more aggressive, but I think I was 2 up with three holes to go. Certainly they were gettable holes.
Might have played slightly too conservative, but listen, the birdie-birdie-eagle finish is impressive. What was that, 8 under par on the final nine holes is quite an awesome finale, so hard to keep up with.
I look back and go, sure, maybe should have been more aggressive here or there. It's tough to count on. At the end of the day you tip your hat and say that's some awesome playing.
Q. Are you surprised that he took the driving iron out on 18?
MATT KUCHAR: He's doing that a lot. I didn't see him hit a 3-wood at all. When he finally pulled the 3-wood on the last, I was kind of anxious to see how he was going to hit it because he seemed to almost avoid it where I thought he would have hit it a few times earlier in the round. He hit it perfectly.
So wasn't totally sure what to expect. I thought he might not like his 3-wood very well because there were three or four other tee shots that I thought for him were perfect 3-wood and he kept with the driving iron. I know that left bunker comes in play off the tee, you kind of want to make sure you avoid that because you take going for it in two out of play if you do drive it in that left bunker. But he was way back, but must have had the perfect club.
Q. Last thing, moving up to No. 52 in the FedExCup, looks like you're in good shape to get into AT&T Pebble Beach pro-am, the Genesis Invitational. Was that one of yours goals coming into this fall?
MATT KUCHAR: It certainly was. I think I was 65th starting the fall. I know there's that caveat, I was working hard late in the year to try to get into that top-50, try to make that BMW Championship and it didn't work out for me late in the year. So this was kind of my next best option.
I think everybody's still trying to figure out how this new year's going to work out. Top-50's a big deal, I was definitely bummed to miss that, but glad to be in a couple of these events to start the year. I think that's a big advantage. If you can play in any of these, you feel like there's so many extra points, so much extra money, you get kind of a nice little head start there.
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