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McIlroy: "I hit some quality shots"

Friday, October 30 2015 by SNTV
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    SOUNDBITE (English) Jaco van Zyl (shot an eleven under par 61):

    "Yeah, I mean it's prepared really nicely and honestly, I thought four under par round here was a good score. I got it going early in the round and, you know, just kept it going. It was really good fun."

    SOUNDBITE (English) Jaco van Zyl (shot an eleven under par 61):

    "Yeah, I mean, it's definitely up there. I've had lower scores, but obviously not on a calibre golf course like this, so I would say this is definitely up there."

    SOUNDBITE (English) Rory McIlroy (shot a five under par 67):

    "Yeah, I am. I felt like a lot of the thing I've been seeing in practice, I started to see on the course today. I hit some quality shots. I still hit some shots that were a little loose, but I saw some putts go in the hole, no bogeys on the card is always good, so I think five under today, it's a good way to start the tournament."

    SOUNDBITE (English) Rory McIlroy (shot a five under par 67):

    "Yeah, it is. It is nice to see. I feel like it's been more of a... maybe a mental barrier than anything else. I feel like I'm practiced. It has been there. It's been good. I got into a couple of little swing flaws, but feel I've worked them out a little bit. I'm still... you can see out there, I'm rehearsing a couple of moves and... I've got a couple of little swing thoughts, which is a good thing this week, because it takes my mind off the result and if I can just keep focused on these couple of swing thoughts that I have, it's a good place to be mentally and I can just go and try and execute the shots the way I want to."

    SOUNDBITE (English) Rory McIlroy (shot a five under par 67):

    "I think so, yeah. I think we played the golf course a little more conservatively than the other guys did. But, I was just trying to place it into the right parts of the fairway and it's all about hitting fairways here, because if you hit... you can get the ball in your hand and then we're playing 'lift, clean and place' on the fairway, so hit it on the fairway, you can control your second shots and try to get it in close, so I feel for the most part we had a good game plan out there today."

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