Hunter Mahan

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Question:

What are your goals for the rest of 2010?

Answer:

Obviously, my top goal is to make the Ryder Cup team. I think that's everybody's goal. I also like my chances to do well at the majors because I think my game is suited well to courses where you have to keep the ball in play.

Question:

What do you do off of the course during tournament weeks?

Answer:

It depends on the city, but as a big basketball fan I like to take in a game anytime I can. At the Northern Trust Open in L.A. I caught a Lakers game. During baseball season I always try to catch a game in cities with teams. The worst thing you can do is sit around and think about your round. You have to give your mind a rest.

Question:

What weeknesses do you see in your game that you are working on?

Answer:

It's definitely been my short game: chipping and putting. I'm a streaky putter. I've really been working hard on that part of my game for last year or so. Now I actually feel pretty comfortable on the golf course. What's been difficult is taking some of the changes I've made in practice to tournament golf. I think not having a bogey over the last 36 holes at Phoenix is a sign that my short game is coming around.

Question:

Do you like playing in events with smaller fields? Do you have to make any adjustments for that?

Answer:

Well, no adjustments, you're just a lot more excited. 70 players, no cut, play is usually a lot faster. Tee times are a lot nicer. You don't have early tee times or late tee times, they're kind of right in the middle. It's great. I think we're all excited about it, really.

Question:

There's kind of a debate among fans about whether they'd like a course to be hard enough to limit birdies or so hard that par is a good score. What do the players think? What's the consensus out there?

Answer:

Yeah, I think the fans like to see us struggle sometimes, like to see us kind of scratch our heads and kind of looking confused out there. I enjoy that challenge. I just think it's a lot more fun when you play a really tough golf course. It's a lot more mental than it is physical sometimes because you have to mentally stay in the rounds a lot longer, and you know par is a good score.

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Introduction

Fan of the year

Ryder Cup Journal: The Trip Out—Or Third Time’s the Charm

Ryder Cup Journal: The Course..and where are my red ruby slippers?

Ryder Cup Journal: Hurry up Tomorrow!

Ryder Cup Final Thoughts

Kiwi Challenge Reflection

Happy New Years

A Win at the WMG Open

A few thoughs on one of the best guys on tour

Updates

Mon, Jul 19th 2010, 14:59

What I Play: Hunter Mahan

Thu, Jun 24th 2010, 10:04

Travelers Championship Chat

MARK STEVENS: I’D like to welcome Hunter Mahan to the interview room. Hunter won here for his first TOUR event in 2007. Actually his last four finishes here are T2 the year before he won, then he won; T2 the year after and last year was T4, so he’s got a great history of finishes here at Travelers Championship. Right now Hunter is 19th in the FedExCup points. A win here would bump him up well into the Top 5 for the season’s FedExCup points. Hunter, if you’d talk a little bit about your season so far and your thoughts coming into the tournament that obviously you enjoy the course.

HUNTER MAHAN: Yeah. I’ve had a great run here, love the…

Wed, Jun 23rd 2010, 16:06

At Home with Hunter

Tue, Jun 22nd 2010, 09:45

Hunter's Sports Nation Chat

Hunter was this morning’s livechat guest on ESPN’s SportsNation. If you missed it live, check out the transcript below:

tim (chicago)
was pebble an unfair tricky or was it fair?

Hunter Mahan

It was very fair. I think we had perfect weather, which allowed the course to get hard and fast. Even is the perfect score for the U.S. Open

Kevin (Ohio)
Hunter, how excited are you to go back to the place where you had your first tour win this weekend?

Hunter Mahan

Extremely excited. It’s a course I’ve had a lot of success at. It’s a fun course for all of the pros. We all enjoy coming back to Connecticut. So much can happen the last four holes. Fun course to play.

Dave (Chicago)
You…

Mon, Jun 14th 2010, 09:16

Before the fame - Hunter Mahan

Hunter Mahan proved himself as an elite golfer long before his first PGA Tour victory.

Born in Orange, Calif., Mahan excelled in soccer and karate before being introduced to golf by his father, Monte Mahan. Hunter considers his dad to be the most influential person in his life growing up.

Unlike most golfers, golf came easy for Mahan. “I was blessed with a naturally smooth golf swing,” said Mahan.

Growing up in suburban McKinney, Texas, Mahan enjoyed a long list of junior accomplishments as a part of the American Junior Golf Association (AJGA). A self-described “not flashy, but consistent” golf game earned Mahan three Rolex Junior All-American awards and the 1999 Rolex Junior Player of the Year.

During his junior golf career, Mahan was…

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