Chris Kirk Winner s Press Conference Sunday Day 4 2024 The Sentry © PGA Tour

Chris Kirk Winner s Press Conference Sunday Day 4 2024 The Sentry © PGA Tour

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[Applause] All right we’d like to welcome the century 2024 Champion Chris Kirk to the interview room Chris this is your sixth PGA Tour Victory first of the new season um what was it like out there uh it was an unbelievable day um just am uh I’m really thankful that I was able to play

As well as I did and you know I was certainly nervous coming into coming into today and and I was able to kind of stay calm and and just played really really solid golf all day awesome with that we’ll open it up to questions just raise your hand and we’ll

Get a mic we’ll start with Sean Martin when you got the courage award you talked about the joy of competing and trying to keep that and then when you talked to Andrew after today you talked about the the joy of competing did you always have that joy throughout your

Career or is that something that’s new to this new phase that you’re in I had it for a long time and then lost it you know I I lost the joy of most things in life for a while there um but yeah certainly certainly back I just love

Um I think I just love how hard this is like it’s so hard to to be great at this and I love the process that it takes I love the work that it takes to to try to be the best version of of myself you know so um I definitely have fallen back

In in love with that that process and you know um sometimes you get rewarded for it like today and and some sometimes you don’t and that’s just part of the part of the deal um so I think to to be successful and to really enjoy your life

As a PJ Tour player you’ve got to love the love the work and when you’re in the midst of the back nine like you were today with people making runs at you and all these birdies is it joyful or stressful that you’re feeling it’s both you know I probably don’t look very

Happy but um that’s kind of by Design I I sort of feel like um you know even even on the last last hole when all I needed to make part uh was part of win I just was like you know wasn’t willing to break character

If you will you know I mean I’m I want to play where I don’t show or any emotion um I’m certainly feeling it obviously um but I’ve just kind of found over the years that’s how I play my best if I just you know I’m truly just trying

To go step by step shot by shot you know just little by little and um you know cuz they’re in by mind the the results are not you know you add it up at the end but yeah it’s something you have no control over you only have control over

Like right now and so I I try to spend as much time as I can during the day of just you know kind of zeroed in on on what’s next we’ll go to Doug Ferguson next I want to get to 17 but I’m I’m curious as as steady as you as you keep

Yourself is there one time that you really lost it you know up or down like overjoy or Terrell Hatton and do you have any memories of this oh in years I thought you’re talking about today um president cup maybe or I’m trying to think of some moments yeah I mean the

Making that putt on 18 of the President’s Cup um for birdie that was that was certainly the most emotion I’ve ever ever felt and the most emotion I’ve ever showed by a long shot um that was huge um making the the putt to win I had you know eight-footer or something like

That to win at Colonial um that’s like you know tap into to win is what you want for sure but um just be to avoid the incredible stress but uh yeah making a putt like that that’s the only time I’ve made like made a significant putt

To to win a Tour event and that was an an amazing amazing feeling and and uh so those are two that that I can definitely point at um as far as the negative side uh I’m just more I’m more of just I’m more of a moper self-pity wo is me when I get

Really pissed off so it’s not that exciting 18’s always going to be a birdie chance for you 17 was playing the toughest on the back nine of the holes I’m just curious what your thought process was going into the hole and and if you could just go through the um

Please tell me that was a five iron it was thank God okay go ahead yes so um you know I I saw the leaderboard at at some point on the back N I can’t remember exactly when and um had in my mind most of the day I was kind of

Chasing 29 like let’s finish at 29 and that’s probably a pretty good spot as it was kind of progressing through the back nine I was like okay 29 29 might be a playoff so you know we’re going to try to get 30 and you know really was was

Disappointed that um you know I didn’t hit a great putt my Eagle putt on 15 after hitting two two great shots and then uh 16 I thought I hit my wedge a lot closer and I did hit a good putt on 16 just misread it a little bit so you

Know that was two what I felt like big missed opportunities but then still had okay you know we’ve got two holes here we can make a three and a four or or a four and a three you know whatever it whatever may be was kind of what I was thinking and

Um but yeah that shot on 17 was was crazy one of the one of the ones best shots in my career for sure definitely one I’ll never forget um because of the situation you know being on the 17th or 71st hole but then also you know we

Played the t-shot into the wind and we got down there to the ball and it had switched and was blowing straight down so I had 192 adjusted and I was ready if if it if I had been first to hit before OE I would have pulled out seven and hit

A nice full seven downwind and um but the wind kind of that was not what the wind had been doing for hours and it kept sort of switching back and forth we felt it off the right for a little while we felt it off the left and then it eventually

Settled back into into out of the North like it like it had been um and so thankfully oet took a minute trying to figure understandably so trying to figure out this wind that was going all over the place and so by the time it was

My turn to hit um you know I felt pretty confident the wind had settled back into to what it was and and uh just kind of choked up on a five iron and hit um hit a great shot so I’m I’m very proud very very proud of that shot that um you know

I was able to make the right call and you know that’s talk about a tough shot to commit to you know when you’re when you’re about to pull seven you end up hitting five that doesn’t happen ever you know that that never happened so to

Be able to commit to it like I did and and make that good of a swing was was an incredible feeling we’ll go to Joe Beal next Chris you mentioned the you find joy in how hard this is do you find the joy in just the process and and the work

Leading up to the tournament or the or the actual tournaments and themselves yeah both I mean I I love I love getting out there and and competing but um yeah I’m not I’m not sure which one I I love more you know it’s tough to say um but yeah it’s

Uh it’s one of those things you know if it if it was easy it wouldn’t really be nearly as fun you know so it’s um it’s just really cool the whole the whole process that all of us go through to you know to try to be as efficient

And be as good as we possibly can with our you know midal coaches trainers swing instructors our caddies you know all of us are you know are so invested in in in what we’re doing and and it feels it feels amazing you know I’ve got

The the kind of my group of people uh with Michael my caddy Jeremy Elliott my agent Scott Hamilton my swing coach Zach Sorenson is my mental coach and Jake crane is my trainer I have have this group of people that are you know I don’t I know beyond the

Shadow of a doubt it’s like they don’t care because I pay them they they truly really care about me and truly care about me being successful and so I feel that every day you know and so it’s it’s amazing having that that group of people

Behind me and um you know it just makes me more motivated to to want to go work work for it and then there was a video of you playing left-handed in the offseason uh what prompted you to try the game left-handed and what have you discovered or did you discover anything

Plain left-handed that you’ve been able to kind of carry over to your profession uh nothing no um I used to play before I had kids I would play for a every December me and and some of my friends would play every day for a week left-handed and we were all terrible and

It was just a lot of talking crap to each other and and uh just having fun goofing off and that’s mostly what it is now like it’s it’s just fun you know like it’s it takes for me to be like feel really great about a shot that I

Hit right-handed it’s got to be something phenomenal something like on 17 today uh but you know left-handed like if I hit the Fairway or if I hit a seven iron on the green like hell yeah that’s awesome you know like you make two Pars in a row I mean that’s

Unbelievable you know so it’s just it brings back a little bit of the kind of childlike nature of of the game and my my expectations are so low that it’s way easier to uh to be happy about what I’m what I’m doing than it is right-handed

To be honest time for a couple more we’ll go to Doug and then or Sean say my golf be hard yeah it’s really hard left-handed really hard go ahead Sean you talked about turning over every Rock to try to get better in the offseason What specifically were some things that you guys worked

On um I would say yeah from you know once the the playoffs were done you I played two tournaments in the fall but um I spent more time in the gym probably from you know September October November and December than maybe I had in the last and i’ I’ve always worked out some

But you know that was definitely the hardest I’ve gone um as far as working on my my fitness level in in years and years maybe ever um so that was a that was a big thing and I think for me the you know if I the harder I work at

That and the stronger I feel and the fitter I feel then um you know that sort of carries over to a lot of things uh but then uh Zach Zach senson who’s the Atlanta Braves mental coach um is how I got connected with him um he and I started working together you

Know in around January or February of of last year so it’s been about a year now U but this fall with me not playing as much we were able to really kind of dig in and and you know look into a lot of different things and and sort of start

To work out you know how my brain ticks and what we can do to improve and um he’s been a a huge help what’s Micha name cromy yeah Michael’s involved in every every process he works out with me most of the most days he doesn’t go every day

Quite like I do but um he works out with me a ton and uh you know whenever I not whenever I talk to Zach but he’s he’s very connected um with what Zach and I are working on and and uh yeah so he’s he does a great job we’ll go to Rob Kus

With the Maui News Chris you you played here four times from 2012 to 2016 and then not for eight years and you come back and win man how did that happen I think I just love playing golf in Hawaii um I’ve had a lot of really

Great weeks at the Sony Open I haven’t haven’t uh quite managed to win that one um and this golf course is one that I love it’s so fun to play it’s just so unique so different from everywhere else that we play I mean some of the crazy

Lies that you’re hitting off of and you know you hit one drive that goes 240 and the next one might go 450 you know it’s just um really kind of brings out the creativity in in what we’re doing um and it’s just a lot of fun but uh certainly

You know I mean I’ve like I said I’ve worked hard hard on my on my game and a lot of things but this was very very unexpected to come off that break where you know I spent a lot of time in the gym and I spent a lot of time working on

A mental game but I didn’t actually play a whole lot of golf and didn’t didn’t practice that much so to to come over here and and to play as well as I did is uh you know I’m very thankful and and uh a little bit surprised final two we’ll

Go with Dave in the back with the Honolulu star advertizer and finish with Doug historically you’ve played quite well at the Sony Open in Hawaii at y uh as recently as last year and so how does what you’ve accomplished this week help you in your mindset for next

Week uh my mind needs a little break at the moment I would say um so yeah I’ll take uh I’ll take tomorrow off and and um you know maybe even Tuesday off as well just to try to kind of decompress a little bit and um but Sony’s a you know

Wy is a golf course that I’ve played so many times and I’m so comfortable on and and just really enjoy enjoy playing the golf course I’ve had some some good success over the years um so um yeah I’ll just try to get some rest and and take it easy and thankfully

It’s a a little easier walk than than caloo around there so um yeah that’s the another incredible thing about our our sport you know when I when I tea off on Thursday what I did this week doesn’t matter anymore you know it’s all square

And the gun goes off and we try to do it all over again last one here with dou chomy gets to wear the FedEx Cup leading caddy bid for next week I think so how do they have that now I think so that’s got to count for something okay couple

Things um you you take a lead into the final round and shoot 65 to to win by one um I got to think you’re you’re expecting that that’s not un it’s fairly unusual you know when you have the the lead to have to go out and throw down a

65 did you yeah um when I saw how calm it was uh you know getting out to the golf course getting out and starting my warmup and everything um yeah you know you just know you know there’s that kind of group of players not that far

Behind you and you’re just kind of like all right somebody’s probably going to shoot 10 under you know somebody always does out here pretty much on a on a calm day anyways and um you know I’m just thankful that Ste shot 10 and not 11 under today so yeah it’s uh it’s definitely

A it’s it’s never easy playing Sunday with the lead but it’s kind of easier a little bit mentally when you know like all right yeah yeah I’m in the lead but I probably won’t be by the time I tea off and then you know if I make three

Pars in a row I’m definitely not going to be anymore and so you just you got to keep the pedal to the metal last one Doug yeah secondly um I can’t think of a better way to put this but when you you know when you were contending at Rocket

Mortgage in 20 and one on corn fairy certainly won Honda last year it’s always you know the the guy who had to step away to to overcome alcohol and depression Etc how much longer or will that be with you when you when you do something great the first reference is

The guy who did this as opposed to who you are as a player and are you okay with that I hope it stays with me forever it’s a you know it’s a huge part of my of my life uh still now and and um you know definitely the the best thing that I’ve

Ever done in in my life is to get sober so I I understand what you’re saying that you know I but I don’t feel like it’s taking away from anything that I’m accomplishing um it’s you know it’s 100% the reason why I’m able to do what I do

You know it’s I’ve said that a lot but um there would be my PGA Tour career would have been over a while ago um had I not gotten sober and uh so yeah I’m I’m fine with that that staying with with me for till the day I die could you

Have could you have done what you did without uh going public um I’ve never really thought about that if I could have um it certainly has been helpful and been beneficial to me to be open and and be public about it um you know I live a

Decent amount of my life sort of in in the public view somewhat anyways and uh so you know the the biggest thing for me was you know waking up every morning and looking at myself in the mirror and knowing that I’ve got nothing to hide

And I can be proud of who I am and so I didn’t feel like that was really going to be quite as possible if I if I was not um open about it kind of an accountability thing somewhat I guess so yeah but it’s just it was more of just

The the freedom of of not lying to myself and lying to other people and you know that’s that’s what it was more yeah there is some sense of accountability there for sure um but uh yeah like I said it’s definitely more about just you know I felt felt free for the first time

In a long time appreciate the time Chris congrats thank you