
Cameron Jourdan
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College/amateur golf and more @golfweek • Former club champion • 13.1x8, 26.2x1 • #ThunderUp • John 13:7
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Rory McIlroy on Thursday's course setup: "The greens are pretty slow and quite receptive. I think they need to be at this point. It's a challenging golf course already, and you put 30-mile-an-hour winds on top of it, it tests the best players in the world pretty well. "I think they were prudent with the course setup, and they made sure to -- I think especially with starting with 156 the first two days, you just want to get everyone around without too much issue. They've set the course up for that, at least today."
Cameron Jourdan224,983 views • 1 day ago

Thought today was another really good Scottie Scheffler presser but particularly this answer when talking about dealing with the pressure of the career Grand Slam. "It's kind of a funny thing. It's like, yeah, if I win this tournament, that would be amazing, but I think then I show up the next week, and it's like, okay, now Scottie's won the grand slam, he's won all these golf tournaments. Now where do we go from here? So no matter what, I think as a player and as a professional athlete, you're never going to live up to the expectations of people. I think sometimes that's a little bit of the fallacy in our sport is like, if I win the U.S. Open, then I'm going to be satisfied. I've won all the tournaments, and my career is essentially over, and I've accomplished everything I could want to accomplish. But I think the goal posts are always just moved further and further. "For me, would it be a dream to win the U.S. Open? Of course. But at the end of the day, like I -- the grand slam has never been a motivating factor for me. I always just wanted to be the best version of myself, and that got me this far."
Cameron Jourdan237,066 views • 3 days ago

Jackson Koivun could've turned pro a year ago. He said it was a game-time decision before deciding to stay an amateur for one more year. It was a historic one, but this week at the U.S. Open is his final amateur start. Why did he ultimately choose to wait? "I think my golf game was there. I just think I wasn't ready to leave college, and mentally just wasn't ready for the potential hardships and the travel and everything like that. "But taking another year to really wrap my mind around that was good for me, and now I'm definitely ready."
Cameron Jourdan192,183 views • 4 days ago

Cameron Young was asked what it was like to get a thumbs up from President Donald Trump after his victory Sunday at the Cadillac Championship: "It’s very unique. He's nothing if not a very, very interesting man. He's very powerful, and it's an honor to get to play in front of him. Hugely grateful to him and his family and his organization that has these beautiful properties and allows us to come and play great golf tournaments on them. "This is a special place and great championship golf course, I'm thankful to have it back in the schedule."
Cameron Jourdan2,084,952 views • 1 month ago

Justin Thomas credits his wife for helping him get mentally prepared for his 65 on Sunday at the PGA. "I vented and kind of got everything off my chest to my wife Jill last night. Credit to her, she gave great advice. She was like, well, use that tomorrow. She's seen me play pissed off. I've done it in Ryder Cups a lot, and it's like sometimes it brings a little different energy and different side out of it. "So I've got to give her a lot of credit for that because I tried to use that out of my finish and round today to play today and shoot as low as I could."
Cameron Jourdan1,282,024 views • 1 month ago

J.T. Poston admitted he didn't feel great about his golf through the first 13 holesof today's final round at the Memorial. He had a four-shot lead. With five to go, he was one behind. How did he motivate himself? "I'm not a quitter, so I hung in there and I just told myself -- I mean, I hit a great putt on 13, right where I wanted and just didn't fall. But I told myself on 14 tee -- I was one back with five to go, still felt like I had a chance. I needed to play the last five holes really well. "And I told myself I knew I was going to be shaking Mr. Nicklaus's hand walking off 18 no matter what, and I want to be proud of the effort when I did. So just to do it the way that I did, birdieing three of the last five, is a dream come true and something I'll certainly carry with me the rest of my career."
Cameron Jourdan327,220 views • 11 days ago

Scottie Scheffler called Friday's pin locations at the PGA Championship "kind of absurd." "This is the hardest set of pin locations that I've seen since I've been on Tour, and that includes U.S. Opens, that includes Oakmont. I did ask, I asked Fooch, who caddies for Justin Rose. He's been around a long time -- and I asked Teddy too -- have you seen anything like this before? They said maybe Shinnecock is the only place they have seen that has pins that could compare to this."
Cameron Jourdan1,161,645 views • 1 month ago

Justin Thomas has a new putter in the bag this week. Where did he get the idea? Cameron Young. "I literally texted Cameron's guys and said, Just give me Cam's putter. I've been watching him make putts for a pretty good amount of time now, and I've always thought it looks really good, so I was like, I want Cam Young's putter. Coincidentally, I get paired with him this week and we had the exact same shoes on yesterday, and it's like, I promise I'm not trying to copy everything you do. But I'm maybe trying to copy everything you do, I don't know."
Cameron Jourdan1,301,358 views • 1 month ago

Gary Player was asked what advice he would give to Tiger Woods: "Do I blame him for taking medicine? Hell, no. He has sleep deprivation. Do I blame him for taking something to help him sleep? No. But I don't think he should drive a car. When you're taking that medicine, it's dangerous when you're driving a car, same as it's dangerous when you look at your cell phone in the car. There's 6,000 accidents a day in motor cars. "So I think all he's got to do is just not drive a car and get a chauffeur. My reflexes, I think, are as good as when I was 20, but I don't drive anymore. I get a chauffeur. I think that's the answer to it."
Cameron Jourdan2,169,284 views • 2 months ago

Matt Fitzpatrick was asked about his reaction to the crowds down the stretch at the RBC Heritage: "It didn't get out of line in terms of no one was shouting on backswings or anything like that, which was great. I'm all for it. I love the people -- they're supporting Scottie; that's great. You want golf to have an atmosphere in my opinion. I grew up watching football. I'm paid so much money to be out there in front of those crowds, having them chanting at you every week, it's great feeling. "However, there's no better feeling than coming out on top against that. There isn't a better feeling."
Cameron Jourdan1,798,241 views • 2 months ago

Here's the entirety of Garrick Higgo discussing why he didn't agree with the two-shot penalty he received at the PGA Championship. "Again, I wasn't that late. When I got there -- I was supposed to tee off last in any case, and Shaun (Micheel) -- he hadn't announced Shaun yet. Obviously he was dealing with finding me, so he probably would have announced Shaun on time. I asked them if I bothered them for being late, and I said, I apologize for that. But they said it was fine."
Cameron Jourdan805,472 views • 1 month ago

Brooks Koepka has sat and waited to get into the last two signature events as an alternate only to head home Thursday after not getting into the events. It's not the first time in his career it happened, but he also is understanding of the position he is in. Koepka is playing in Myrtle Beach this week. "The way I look at it is I'm itching to get in, but I'm accepting of where I'm at, and I understand that there's prices to pay for coming back, and I'm willing to accept those and whatever I have to do. "I knew this year was going to be challenging to even get in them. I kind of thought maybe by around U.S. Open, but to know that I'm kind of knocking on the door already is a good thing. Just the answer to everything is play better, and you're in."
Cameron Jourdan963,971 views • 1 month ago

Rory McIlroy spoke with media on Wednesday for the first time since winning the Masters. He told a funny story about Poppy at Augusta National. "I think for Poppy it sort of seems normal for her now to just go into Butler Cabin at the end of the day and have a grilled cheese and talk with the chairman." "We were flying back on the Monday afterwards and she always has a tennis lesson on Monday afternoon, and I thought OK, maybe today we can bin the tennis lesson. And she's like, 'No, I want to play tennis.' And I'm like, 'Sure, let's go, let's do it.' So as soon as we get home she's the one that rules the roost."
Cameron Jourdan950,101 views • 1 month ago

Chris Gotterup was asked whether the setup at Aronimink was "unfair." Gave a great answer. "So is it unfair, probably not. But is it going to make the round slow, yeah. "I don't think it's unfair by any stretch of the imagination, but you're not going to get any 4-1/2 hour rounds out here if that's what they, if that's what's going to happen. So, unfair, no, but, you know, tough to make birdies."
Cameron Jourdan648,078 views • 1 month ago

Justin Thomas was asked about his group getting put on the clock: "We just didn't really agree with it. ... The hard part to me with the whole pace of play thing is that you, there's so much that goes into golf and there's so much that goes into hole to hole in terms of, are you hitting it close, are you able to tap it in, or you have to mark it, stuff like that, to where, are you holding the group up or are you not, to where it's very hard to make that call. And we just didn't agree with it, to be honest. "But we got taken off, and a hole later we were caught up. So it kind of goes to our point of why we didn't think we should of, but it is what it is. It's a part of it."
Cameron Jourdan619,177 views • 1 month ago

Scottie Scheffler has had to learn to bargain with son Bennett recently. "Last night we were leaving a Nike party and he somehow ended up with two sugar cookies and he hadn't eaten his dinner yet. I was like, 'all right, buddy, if you eat these sausages, I will give you this cookie.' He's like, 'cookie.'
Cameron Jourdan1,406,702 views • 2 months ago

Jon Rahm was asked if he can get out of his LIV contract early or if he has to wait until it expires. "I have no idea. I couldn't tell you. I have very few talents in my life, and reading a contract or business are not two of them. "As of right now, I have several years on my contract left, and I'm pretty sure they did a pretty good job when they drafted that. "I don't see many ways out, and as of right now, I'm not really thinking about it since we still have a season to play and majors to compete for. So it's not something I want to think about just yet."
Cameron Jourdan784,004 views • 1 month ago

Jordan Spieth was asked about the ongoing situation with LIV and how the PGA Tour should treat players who want to return. "I'm not sure. I'm not sure if it should be the same for everyone. I know olive branches were given out, you know, a couple months ago. Brooks took 'em up on it. So I'm not sure what would now change. Obviously with, if it -- and I don't even know, that doesn't necessarily mean that LIV's not going to still move on, too. "I think there's just too many unknowns for me to have a good gauge on what would happen there. But I think, if there's a system for Brooks and a system for Patrick Reed, does that stay the same for guys in the same category as those two coming back or does it change now. Does it change for guys who sued and dropped their membership. "There's just a lot of different things that happened over the last four years for that. I'm kind of glad I'm not in that room, and I trust the guys that are in that room to make the right decision."
Cameron Jourdan871,232 views • 1 month ago

Tom Watson was asked what change he would make to Augusta National. "I'd fill in the creek in front of No. 12." Laughter ensued. Then Gary Player added: "That's an 8-iron, and it's crippled more people than polio. "You can't knock it in from the water unless you've got a helluva underwater stroke."
Cameron Jourdan1,270,903 views • 2 months ago

I asked Scottie Scheffler if he can play with the same aggressiveness Sunday that he did in the third round. "It depends on what the leadership here wants to do. "If they want to see some lower scores, they can make them softer if they want. I mean, they're already pretty firm, so they can just go full Bay Hill and just let them die. It's Augusta. They'll figure it out after that."
Cameron Jourdan1,216,014 views • 2 months ago