Vince Whaley jokes about life on the edge of the FedExCup bubble. The American opens up about consistency, pressure, and his love for “old-school” courses like the Country Club of Jackson.
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Mhm. Vince, a pair of 67s to start. How would you compare those two rounds? Yeah, very different rounds. One was very solid. The other one was uh mostly just a good putter. So, yeah, try to combine them in the weekend, but a little different. You’ve had some uh pretty solid performances here, Mr. Carton, all the times you played what, seven or eight times. Uh what is it about this place that you like? Uh I I I honestly love this place. It’s kind of that old school tight golf course with not not a ton of trouble, but kind of you just plot it around and keep it in front of you and you can play well. I some of the best greens we play all year and it’s uh it’s honestly just a great event. I think you’re just outside that 100 mark coming in here on the FedEx standings. How would you kind of assess your season so far? A couple of top 10, but overall, how would you It’s been a lot of solid golf, but it’s just nothing special pretty much the whole year. I, you know, I’ve made a bunch of cuts and felt like I played good for the last six months, but it’s getting harder and harder out here and you got to have those big finishes and I just really haven’t had that yet. So, what do you feel like you need to do to turn that around a little bit, you know? I don’t know, honestly. That’s what I’ve been trying to figure out. I think uh just keep plugging along and hopefully at some point it just kind of happens. But I’m I’m trying to go figure it out, too. Has the feel of this time of year kind of changed at all with the, you know, line going from 125 to 100? Yeah, for sure. But I mean, I I’m used to this. I’m I like to live right on the number every year, so I get very comfortable here. So, yeah. Do you like knowing exactly where you are going into a round? Uh, I mean, not I mean, yes and no. I mean, it doesn’t it’s just so much going on. It doesn’t really matter if you’re knowing exactly where you’re at, but I mean, you obviously have to have some idea. What was the highlight for you today? Some putt. Some putt on the front nine. Like five par putts. Probably one of those. Yeah. Thank you. Thanks. Thank you.
