2025 Travelers Championship Austin Eckroat Thursday Flash Interview
go ahead austin Green playing today what was For sure what was clicking for you out there yeah really just felt comfortable with everything um I have had a left miss all season and I think over the last two weeks I’ve been at home I kind of solved that and um you know I just I wasn’t fearing the left ball today which is huge and then you whenever you’re feeling comfortable with other things other things start to fall in line you know and um it felt great over the putter and just a really really solid day and I felt confident which it’s it was nice to feel that this season it hasn’t it’s been a while when would you say the last time was that you felt this confident right it’s funny a lot of Wednesdays I’ve felt really good going into the tournament um and then Thursday comes around and it you know it hasn’t been there uh I don’t know if it’s just the the stress of playing in a you know a PJ tour event but um this one you know it was nice to to feel good on Wednesday and then actually take it into Thursday so what did you do um kind of in the last couple weeks did you work with someone or by yourself how did you kind of get it figured out yeah I think I was getting really close with myself and then um you know got some good advice from from friends and family you know and people watch me play golf a lot of people around me and um you know made a grip adjustment and um yeah it was just it was an easy fix which is always annoying you know you want it to be it in your mind it seems like it’s something crazy but it it really isn’t it’s just something minor and um which is nice obviously but it’s frustrating because it was just one piece away the whole time what did you kind of change in the grip what was the adjustment i just went a little weaker with my right hand and it was um you know I was able to release the club properly at that point i wouldn’t say it was weak it had just gotten really strong and um you know I just hadn’t paid attention to that was focusing on the other aspects of the golf swing and then um so just a little bit weaker more on top of the club so yeah fans hear players a lot of times talk about like I’m really close or like you know I I feel like something is coming how fine a line is it between you know a player like you going out and shooting 69 or 70 which is a really good score and people would sort of watch and then sort of breaking through today i mean a career low score how how close are those two things to being together yeah it’s it’s funny it’s at my college coach and when I was at Oklahoma State used to always say when you’re off you’re never that far from playing good golf and whenever you’re on you’re not that far from from playing bad golf you’re playing on a fine line and and confidence plays a huge part in it um you know it’s just a it’s a funny game and like you said I mean I felt close all year and that’s why I kept playing like I just you know I felt like a week was coming and it was just all going to click i just needed like one good round and I was going to be good and uh just it hadn’t happened yet but you know it was great to to show myself I can still do it today yeah did you have an appreciation do you think when you first came out on tour and we’re out here on a regular basis that like how much of the game was going to be a mental approach like what you’re talking about and how much was going to be a physical difference shots between you know you and other players out here that that balance did were you aware of that i I kind of was i mean I had two really good I wouldn’t say I mean they were role models I guess but my teammates came out here immediately and and had success Victor and Matt Wolf and they were um it kind of gave me the confidence going into time that I knew I could compete with them so I knew I could compete out here but it’s a it’s a different ball game out here you’re um you know week in week out having a grind and um but yeah the mental aspect of it with playing in front of people with cameras and all that stuff yeah it was a um I would say I was I was aware of it just cuz I had two buddies that had just done it um but yeah it’s still a shock when you get out here now it’s gonna supposed to get really hot over the course of the next couple days it was warming up as over the course of your run what if anything will you do that might be different to recover or to anticipate like you know do you drink more do you do cold plunge like what what do you do coming off of a really good run to put your body in a position to keep doing that for the next three days yeah i mean I know the game you know I felt like I was in a really good spot today so I’ll go out and do a quick quick practice and just kind of I do it every round a cool down is what I call it just go hit a few shots hit a few putts just you know take my mind off of what happened that day and then uh after that yeah just hydrating um haven’t gotten into the cold plunges yet but maybe maybe another time but yeah not this week cool thanks is there any nostalgia coming back here i know this is where you made your first um pro start I think four years ago what kind of memories come back yeah this was uh this is a one of my favorite events of the year outside of that but then adding on top of it that you know this was they gave me a sponsor exemption gave me a an opportunity to play with the you know the best players in the world back in 2021 and um just really thankful for you know travelers and everybody involved in in this event to you know give me that opportunity and I played well that week and I just have great memories coming back here and it’s it’s definitely one of my favorite stops of the year do you have a favorite memory from that week that kind of stands out you know it’s funny they all run together now the weeks that we play but um I remember doing a little um a media thing for Travelers and uh every now and then it’ll pop up on my social media like come back around and you know it’s funny i don’t have any logos on my shirts it’s just I’m you know wearing uh just standard clothing and um it was it was funny just looking back on what’s happened since then it’s it’s pretty cool what did you see on 18 on that second shot it looked like you were behind the scoreboard you have a good Yeah so I I had the full view of the flag and um it wasn’t necessarily in my way the scoreboard wasn’t but and it was at an angle to where it was you know really thin but I was on that sidehill eye it was kind of thick i was afraid that if I the heel caught I could hit it and that was really all my question was but to get relief I had to be more in my way but you know luckily it came out great and was able to make birdie yeah good around that way yeah exactly yeah well thank you thank you Austin thank you
