Media Center Interviews
April 5, 2026
Final Round Interview with Matt Wallace
Q. What are the emotions like stepping off the course with the lead today?
MATT WALLACE: Good. Yeah, very good. I don't know if someone would like to do a rain dance for me and get the wind blowing hopefully or something. I'm very happy with how I played. We'll have to wait and see now.
Q. Yeah. Is it a little bit different when you know that the conditions aren't great and the scores might not be that low to be in this position now?
MATT WALLACE: Yeah. I mean, it was hard, but it just seems to have died down a little bit now and no rain. So going to have to get some sort of luck down the road to potentially get this one.
It would mean a lot to me. Yeah, fingers crossed.
Q. Can you tell us more about that, what that would mean to get a win here, what that would do for your career going forward?
MATT WALLACE: Well, it would mean having a look to get into Augusta next week obviously. Just it would mean a lot in terms of where I've been in the last year or so to get to this point where I played so good over these last couple days and the last couple weeks as well. It would mean a lot to me to know that I can get the job done in whatever conditions. So mentally I was very good this week and yeah, take it from there.
Q. Yeah. You mentioned sort of your season so far. In the scope of your year, what was so different that you had such good results in this tournament? Something stick out to you?
MATT WALLACE: I've played better than the results have shown and I think ‑‑ I'm sure there's a lot of pros that would say that this year, and it happens like that. The patience thing is the worst word in golf, but you need a lot of it. I had patience this week and it paid dividends.
Q. Even just these last two rounds compared to how you started the week, you posted really good scores, is there something that change going into the weekend?
MATT WALLACE: No, no. I played great on the first day. We hit the ball too far on the first day, we kept going long. Then we changed a few things. I was really positive, I was hitting it so good. Then we kind of just stayed on it and we just stayed patient and kept going. We hit great shots and played great this weekend.
Q. Can you take me through that shot on 15? It looked like you might have hit it too heavy and then it ended up going in the hole.
MATT WALLACE: It was a bit fluffy lie, so it was sitting down. I knew I had to hit it relatively firm and it just shot out on me pretty fast, but it was on a great line. It was a relatively easy chip flat left‑to‑right, slightly uphill and yeah, it just landed perfect and then rolled like a putt and hit the flag. I think it would have gone in without the flag as well, but it would have gone about six foot past probably.
Q. Do you need a break or two like that?
MATT WALLACE: 100 percent, 100 percent. You go out there, a few holes before, on 13 I didn't hit a great shot, but I left myself a horrendous leave. Some roundabouts in golf and luckily it went my way there.
