Billy Horschel spoke to the media after the Corales Puntacana Resort & Club Championship, where he won by 2 strokes and earned a spot in the final 3 PGA Tour Signature Events.
it’s all over the place right now uh
tell you the truth
uh you know think back to where I was
almost a year ago uh and to where I am
now I’ve seen the signs obviously the
game’s been a really good spot all year
um the stats have shown it I finally
gotten some results over last month and
one of the reasons I came down here was
because I didn’t want another week off I
felt like I was playing well um
unfortunately I miss cut of Valero which
didn’t allow me to get earn my way to
RBC or possibly the Masters um so I felt
my game was really good and I wanted to
go play I wanted to go play I felt like
a win was coming and I didn’t want to
sit at home and and watch someone else
possibly win a tournament that I could
have been at and and done something
about so uh listen I mean I haven’t been
at an opposite field event for a long
time um and you know sometimes you got
to take your medicine because of where
you’ve been in the game and and I was
happy that I came down here I played
really well and I I came out with a
victory and it’s been a great week this
uh punon Resort’s been unbelievable the
golf course has been unbelievable the
staff everyone involved has been awesome
I’ve enjoyed my time here and um it’s
just nice to to finish that off with
with a victory I was I was at peace this
morning listen I was nervous there was
no doubt I was nervous um if I’m not
nervous with a chance to possibly win a
tournament then then I’m not alive I
mean I don’t know why I’m playing
because that means it doesn’t mean
anything um but I felt good with where
my my game was I felt good with the
three days of work I’ve put in I felt
good with what I’ve done over the last
couple months and I felt like
everything’s moving in the right
direction um did you
know if a win didn’t happen today was
that going to be in the world no it was
I was everything’s moving in the right
direction and and a win doesn’t mean
I’ve got to where I want to be yet and
back to where I want to be in this game
of golf but it’s once again it’s moving
in the right direction so I felt like
today I’m just going to go out there and
play my game and see what happens and I
played really well I made some really
good long putts um I hit some really
quality golf shots when I needed to and
it’s just one of those things where it’s
all just came together on on a day like
this when I needed to to chase down
someone like Wesley who’s been playing
great all week yeah I think you know for
the last decade I’ve been in pretty much
every major been in every WGC and you
know now with the new changes in it
scheduled not to be in the Signature
Events it sort of hits home you know it
sucks let’s just be honest it sucks but
I didn’t have a pity party for myself it
was one of those things that hey I put
myself in this situation I’ve got to get
myself out of it and we’ve been slowly
climbing ourselves out of that hole that
we put ourselves into last year and this
just helps us get closer to that top of
that hole and um hopefully you know I do
get into uh Wells Fargo which would be a
great event um you know hopefully my
world ranking gets close to to
qualifying for the US Open and the
British Open uh you know two events I’m
still not qualified for um but like I
said listen I’m it’s still a process I’m
not anywhere close to where I want to be
or back to where I want to be but this
win is a just a a a satisfaction a just
a you know I’m drawing a blank on the
word I’m looking for
um for all the hard work we’ve all put
in it just it it’s it’s just nice to see
the results finally come to to fruition
yeah I’m excited I’m always excited to
go there it’s a second home pretty much
to me um so many friends that I’ve known
for over the years uh obviously zurich’s
a sponsor of mine I’m an ambassador of
theirs they put on such a great event uh
the four kids Foundation does an
unbelievable job of taking care of all
the players yeah it’s like I said it’s a
second home I’m excited always get to
get there to get some good food Tyson’s
my partner this year I’m excited to play
with a good friend of mine a college
teammate um obviously I’m playing well
he’s playing well too so hopefully um
you know we can put ourselves in a
position on Sunday to to have a chance
to to chase down another Victory uh and
it would be nice you know for him to you
know if we are put ourselves in that
position for him to get his first
Victory so yeah I’m looking forward to a
great week at Zurich and and the New
Orleans and and having some good food
listen I mean at that point I I didn’t
know where the golf ball was going I was
spending hours and hours grinding at the
game and I wasn’t getting what I wanted
out of it um I wasn’t seeing the results
any kind of results results that I
wanted so and then you go to a course
like that where I was a defending champ
and you shoot 84 I mean it’s it’s um it
it hits hard because I want to do well
there I want to play well I want to
defend my title you know not saying I
want to defend by trying to win
obviously I’m trying to win but I wanted
to do you know what you know a
respectable showing for the p uh
Champion so uh yeah it was uh it was a
tough time but at the same time I knew I
knew we were moving in the right
directions even though I felt like every
two three steps we got you know we would
go or every step we went forward and we
went back two or three steps so um I
think it’s just the tireless effort that
and work that I’ve put in my team’s put
in trying to search for the answers and
the solutions and we got some of that
answers and solutions early in June and
and since then we’ve been moving in the
right direction um probably not as fast
as I always want I want to move I want
everything to be done quicker but you
know sometimes it’s a slower process and
you just got to to stay patient and
understand you will get result if you
continue to believe and put into the
work in the time I mean listen I had a
three three we Str stretch of where I
finished second first first and I
thought I was something special at that
time but what Kelly what Nelly and and
Scotty are doing is is unreal I can’t
imagine that and over a period of time
not just five weeks in a row they’ve
done it over you know six seven eight
weeks uh I mean it’s it’s unreal golf um
and to think about who they’re playing
against and today’s generation of more
talented players um and doing what
they’re still doing uh man I I say we’re
not going to see anything like that
again but uh I’m sure we will but it’s
just it’s you just have to stand up and
applaud them because it’s pretty special
and and you you know as a golf fan I’m
just lucky to be able to see that
because at the at the end of the day I’m
a golf fan at heart
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