What they said: D.J. Trahan

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Q. Can you just talk about the mentality of this tournament right now? If you are not making birdies, you are falling back.

D.J. TRAHAN: Of course, the golf course is very vulnerable and the greens are perfect. It's playing soft so you can attack and the greens are in awesome shape. They are rolling great. Some guys are making a lot of putts tomorrow. I'm at 17. And if I had to pick a number right now I'd say 23, 24 under is going to win.

I feel like I got to go out and shoot another six or seven tomorrow. Unless, of course, the conditions change, meaning we get a lot of wind or something.

But if we get the same conditions, it's going to have to be another 6 or 7 under to have a chance, I think. Guys are playing good. It's sandwiched in there. 18, 17, 16, 15. The course is very vulnerable right now. And you got to make a lot of birdies.

Q. How do you assess your play so far?

D.J. TRAHAN: I played so well today. I missed a 6 footer on 14. Then it went three feet by. I had two good putts and missed them and I double bogeyed there and that was the only bogey I made all day. It was a double bogey, 3 putt for 6. I played great today. Obviously extremely disappointed with that because I played such good golf today. You know I made a couple of birdies coming in after that to get it back. I'm feeling good about tomorrow. Hope I can keep doing what I'm doing. I hit the ball well. I would actually like to putt a little better. I left a few out there. I'm sure everybody would say that if you asked them.

Q. All right. Thank you. Good luck.

D.J. TRAHAN: Thanks.