What they said: Brian Davis

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JOEL SCHUCHMANN: Brian Davis, thanks for joining us here after your second round at the Crowne Plaza Invitational at Colonial.

Opened up with rounds of 64, 65. Off to a great start, a lot of players still on the golf course, but you certainly have to like your position after the first few days.

BRIAN DAVIS: Any time you can give me 11 under in the afternoon, I found good with that. This course is one of those courses if you can hit a lot of fairways, you can shoot the pins and you can make some birdies, especially with the greens a bit soft at the moment.

But no doubt the tournament will firm them up over the weekend and make it a lot tougher. But there are scores to be had out there today, and I'm sure there will be a few low ones.

JOEL SCHUCHMANN: No bogeys today on the card, any stressful holes at all?

BRIAN DAVIS: Yes, I had a couple of stressful holes on the back 9 but got it up and down for par and kept my momentum going. It's always nice have a bogey free round. It's one of them things, you got to take the rough with the smooth round here. You get slightly out position off the tee and you are struggling for par. So I'm delighted to finish at 5 under.

Q. We have ask you about the abscess, what did you have done?

BRIAN DAVIS: I was lying yesterday, my wife beat me up the night before. It's just one of them things, I went has night and had it taken care of. Obviously I've got a lots of swelling still so it will take a few days to go down, but I'll be fine.

Q. Are you taking any medication or anything?

BRIAN DAVIS: Yes, but no steroids, no.

Q. You were talking about a couple of holes, talk about 6, the one you got up and down on 6, I think you hit it in the rough on the right side and then you hit a little shot to the left side, just talk about that one.

BRIAN DAVIS: Yes, you know, I hit a bad tee shot, left it right in the rough. With this rough you can't maneuver the ball. You can't turn it right to left, left to right, and I tried hit a punch, low cut under the tree. You just get a flier, and it goes dead straight. And I hit myself in probably the only position on the hole that I didn't want to be. It was one of those, I took a Hail Mary pass with a lob wedge, and it came off and went down to three feet. That's just one of them things.

I just felt, even if it came up short in the bunker, I would have a pretty simple bunker shot. I just thought it was worth the risk and it came off.

Q. Are you taking pain meds?

BRIAN DAVIS: I'm taking everything.

Q. You are just floating out there?

BRIAN DAVIS: I might just keep taking them all year if this carries on.

Q. It didn't affect the concentration of the flow out there, you didn't feel any pain?

BRIAN DAVIS: Not right now. Just sleeping is the hardest thing.

Q. You had some putts, had momentum going today, just talk about the feeling of going that low and kind and did you feel that you could take it as low as you wanted to today?

BRIAN DAVIS: Yes, I could have been 7 under after nine holes. I really hit it close. I had a lot of chances, made a couple.

But, you know, this old golf course, if you can hit it in the right spots, you leave yourself a great putt at.

Probably the key for me was up and down on No. 2. I just birdied 1 and messed up on 2, made par. Parred the next. Birdied the par 3 and just kept my momentum going really.

Obviously, that's what it's all about around here, going forward. I'm sure the golf course is going to be play a lot tougher than it has the first few rounds. There is no storms forecast, so it should firm up.

Q. Given the distraction of what happened and everything, are you at all surprised to be playing this well to have the pain?

BRIAN DAVIS: I've got 3 young kids, so this is just normal stress. One of them is usually in the doctor's office, or whatever is happening at home. It's part and parcel of life for me at the moment.

JOEL SCHUCHMANN: You had five birdies, if we could go through them quickly, and we'll take one final question.

BRIAN DAVIS: I started on 10.

11, hit 8 iron to about 15 feet and made it.

14, hit driver, 7 iron to about 8 feet and made it.

On 16, I hit 6 iron, made a bomb from about 35 feet.

On one, hit it in the bunker off the tee, hit an 8 iron on the third shot to about 12 foot behind the hole and holed it.

The par 3, I hit cut 3 wood in there to about 12 feet, made it.

Q. When is the last time you hit 3 wood at a par 3 on the PGA TOUR?

BRIAN DAVIS: I carry a 2 iron. I don't carry a rescue. I just couldn't carry up on the front. If it hits the front, it's going to kill it. So the only option to get it back there was to hit a high cut 3 wood. But again, like I said, once the course gets firm I won't be able to hit that shot because it bounced through the green. So that's what I'm saying, if they firm it up a bit it's going to play tough.

Q. Do you remember your yardage there?

BRIAN DAVIS: It was 240 something. Obviously, soft greens. When it landed, it only went about three feet. It was one of those things where I had to take about 10 to 15 yards off the 3 wood. Obviously the soft greens enables you to do that.

JOEL SCHUCHMANN: Brian, thank you.

Good luck this weekend.

BRIAN DAVIS: Thank you.