Q. How do you feel after a day like today? Got away a little bit early on but pulled it back on 10 and turned it around.

LUCAS GLOVER: Yeah, a couple bad decisions off the tees and then a couple bad swings, and you get a couple bogeys and a double.

But reeled it back in on the back, three birdies and six pars, and got a little momentum going into our little rest here, so I'm pretty pleased.

Q. Was that approach shot on 10 the one that got you back going around?

LUCAS GLOVER: Maybe the tee shot on 9. I hit that exactly what I see and how I was looking and I hit the next one good, came up a little short on 9. Misread the putt, but those two swings felt like it did the last few days and that got things going.

Q. Think you'll play more today?

LUCAS GLOVER: We are scheduled to. We need to get in as many holes as we can with the weather as it's been. We don't know what it will be like tomorrow so hopefully get in as many as we can.

Q. Is it easier to go into the last round of a U.S. Open right after a round?

LUCAS GLOVER: I don't know. Never done it. I would think. You know, because you don't have to sleep on it, you don't have to go home and think about it.

Golf course is too hard, too many good players, just see if I can make a bunch of pars and try to follow Ricky around, he's playing great.

Q. Guys don't even know what day or what round it is; finding yourself a couple strokes back going into the final round of a U.S. Open must feel like a great accomplishment.

LUCAS GLOVER: I had a pretty good opportunity the other day and let it go and I just said, I've just got to be patient and I played a good hole on 9 and then my caddie and I said, walking to 10, all right, let's just put a good nine together and we did.

I drove it great again all day. Just got loose with some iron shots and a poor decision off the 6th tee, but I was patient, and I told you all the first time I was up here, that was the name of the game this week for me, and today was good, for me in that regard.

Q. Is this about as tough mentally as you've had to be?

LUCAS GLOVER: Sure. Any major sets up that way. It tests every part of your game, and physically, it's just the fact ‑‑ it's just walking and playing golf. Mentally, it's long day, short day, don't know what's going to happen with the weather and now I'm in the hunt. Yeah, it's tough.

Never been there before so we'll see what happens.

Q. Clearly the vocal support is in Ricky's corner and then you pull within one shot of the lead and get a little smattering of applause. Surprised by that?

LUCAS GLOVER: He's got cooler pants than me. (Laughter).

I don't think there's very many people that think I can or will do it anyway, so that's fine.

Q. Well what do you think?

LUCAS GLOVER: Well, that's my opinion and I'll keep it.

Q. Why do you think they don't think you can do it?

LUCAS GLOVER: First time I made the cut at an Open. Won one tournament. You know, don't have ‑‑ but Ricky and I, we are playing better than everybody right now, but again, we've got the fourth round together.

Q. Is there any advantage to you playing together in that group, as opposed to playing with Phil or somebody who is a bigger name?

LUCAS GLOVER: I don't know. I can't speak to that. I haven't had that experience.

Q. Just in terms of how is playing with him?

LUCAS GLOVER: Ricky's been great. We've been friends a long time and we've known each other forever. It's great. We had a good time today, talked a lot, and yeah, it was fun.

We talked about that yesterday, we were passing each other in the stairs. He said, last time we played together here ‑‑ I think so. We had not crossed paths much since, but that was pretty cool.

Q. You had not played together since?

LUCAS GLOVER: No, not since then. That was the last time we played together and before that was maybe college.

Q. So what were you talking about all day?

LUCAS GLOVER: Just this, that and the other, golf, how his ball went so far on one hole and spun back on the other. You know, just chitchat.

Q. Will you look at the leaderboard?

LUCAS GLOVER: Sure. Sure, I have to. I like to know where I stand. Football coaches don't coach fourth quarter not knowing what the score is. People are different in that regard. Some people don't want to know but I do, because if I have to hit driver on 18, I know what I have to do, or something crazy.

Q. Your grandfather played in the NFL?

LUCAS GLOVER: Just my grandfather.

Q. Did his dad play, too?

LUCAS GLOVER: Yeah, I heard that yesterday.

Q. What are you reading tonight?

LUCAS GLOVER: I don't know. I've got to pick a new one out. I've done four this week. I've got to pick up a new one.

Q. Can you name what they were?

LUCAS GLOVER: Oh, man. Cussler, two Stuart Woods, and "The Lost City of Z." I recommend that one. I don't know, I carry five or six every week.

Q. Do you feel like this is a two‑man race because of the way you two are playing?

LUCAS GLOVER: No. There's too many great players, and the golf course is too good. You know, somebody is going to make a run. Greens are still soft and they are rolling perfect. So I fully expect a handful of guys to make a run. You have Phil sitting there and everybody that's playing is a great player so, no, you can't think that at all.

Q. You seem looser than some of the other guys that have been up here.

LUCAS GLOVER: It's an act. I left a lot of it on 18. I said I would do my best to get some rest here and not really grind it out inside. I'm pretty hungry, too. Forgot to eat. That's bad.

Q. Do you feel like you had to attack?

LUCAS GLOVER: I felt like I had to attack on the back to get back in it, when I had an opportunity with a good angle or a short iron or something, I went at it. 10 was a bonus, 5‑iron close and 11 was a pitching wedge and 16 was a 9‑iron.

So when I got a short iron in my hand, I had to go at it and when I didn't or have a good yardage, just played to one side or the other. I had to be a little more aggressive on the back than I wanted to be and that was because of my results on the front.

Q. What do you think the impression is of you on TOUR; you have a southern drawl but not a whole lot of southern in you, so to speak.

LUCAS GLOVER: Really? I don't know. Dang. I feel like I try to be nice to everybody and hopefully they are nice back. I guess they like me, don't care. I get along with most people.

Q. Would they like you better if you won?

LUCAS GLOVER: Oh, I don't know. The most person everybody's jealous of is the guy that won last week.

Q. Does it bother you to practice and warm up again to play one hole?

LUCAS GLOVER: No. Might be one less we have to play Tuesday. (Laughter).

I mean seriously, we don't know what the weather is going to do. So as many as we can get in today would be good.

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