Q. Rounds of 66, 64. How are you feeling heading into the weekend?

PETER MALNATI: I feel good. You know, it's fun to shoot good scores. Like I work really hard on my game and I haven't had tons to show for that lately. I've been ‑‑ even the tournaments where I have scraped out some decent results, it's always like scraping and clawing to make the cut, and then scraping and clawing to like climb and get those few little points there, the difference between 35th and 25th.

So to be kind of not in that position coming down the stretch on a Friday where it's, oh, I'm actually like, I don't even have to think about the cutline, I can think about playing golf. That was fun. Yeah, that was good.

Q. Going off that, what's it like when you're working on those things and see it translate in round competition?

PETER MALNATI: It feels really good. Like it's really fun to know like the work ‑‑ like the golfer that I feel like I am when I prepare can do it inside the ropes. To see it like Thursday and Friday, we'll find out more the next two days of course, but the evidence is there, I can do it. Like obviously I've won twice on Tour so I know that.

But the Tour is rapidly evolving, getting more competitive. So to play here where there's so many guys like me trying to scrape and claw and find their place for next year on Tour and to be so competitive for two rounds, it feels really good.

Q. Did you feel it coming?

PETER MALNATI: I really like the way I've been working for a long time, but I was pretty disappointed last week at Vidanta. I thought I was ready to play well there and I just didn't. Really, my game didn't feel quite right, my driver swing was off and I was disappointed because going into it I felt ready.

So I felt ready again this week and you almost in a way like after doing it for so long, you're like, gosh, am I just setting myself up for disappointment by saying I feel ready?

I'm trying really, really hard to lean into this idea of like, you know, the outcome is a product of what I do on each shot. So just like lean into like giving my best to each shot. But your question was, do I see it coming? The answer is like I feel really good about my work, but once you get inside the ropes, you've got to do it there and I don't know that I saw this coming.