Day Two of LIV Golf in Nashville kicked off in a big way with a Press Conference featuring Louis Oosthuizen and his Stingers GC sitting down to talk about his injury, the team atmosphere and much more. Check out all that was said below including Branden Grace answering our question about bouncing back in Nashville.

Q. Dean and Louis, you guys are both sitting inside the top 10 right how in points at third and fifth respectively. Tell us about what’s clicked with your game this year and how and why you guys are playing so well.

DEAN BURMESTER: Yeah, for me it’s obviously kind of having that home feel, I think, in the team environment, and certainly the vibe that we have kind of helps us feed off each other. Last year I had a pretty good season. Branden had a really strong season. It was nice to kind of feed off him.

Louis, I finally remember in Tucson last year us waiting on the green with Louis, and I really wanted that. I wanted that obviously for myself but also for the team and for us to get wins. Yeah, that kind of drives you to keep practicing and keep grinding it out and getting better.

Yeah, I can contribute just being happy as a whole to kind of my golf.

Q. Do you feel that LIV and the team aspect has really improved your game?

DEAN BURMESTER: Definitely because I get to feed off not only these great players, but I get to feed off a lot of other great players. You learn from them day in, day out. Bryson obviously is doing amazing things, but I’ve had the honor of spending time with him on the driving range and picking his brain, his crazy brain, which is really cool, and you get to understand a lot of that stuff. Those things kind of make it a little easier and maybe make you feel a little less mad and make you feel like you’re just normal and one of the guys out here.

LOUIS OOSTHUIZEN: I think towards the end of last year, I started playing a little better. I’ve been trying — went back to old sort of things that I knew worked in the past for me, and then had a really good last two events of the season by winning the two events in Europe, on the European Tour. Then sort of just carried over into this season.

I think being part of a team, it drives you a little bit more. You don’t get — you do get down on yourself, but you’ve got three strong guys to really pick you up and motivate you to keep on going, and if you have a bad round it’s not the end of the world, but you’re always working harder and harder to try and contribute to the team.

Being part of something like that, I think your focus is a little bit not just me, me, me like it used to be all the time. It’s all about the team setup and environment. I know I love it, and I think the boys love it, as well.

Q. Louis, you withdrew last week in Houston with a back injury. Can you give us a status update on that?

LOUIS OOSTHUIZEN: Yeah, it came out of the blue really. I woke up and just paining off and came back up and I was like, oh, that’s not good. I got to the golf course, and I couldn’t even get in my setup position properly. I knew it was going to be a case of trying to play and I would have probably made one shot or two shots and then walked off.

Knowing Wade is right there and he can tee off and help the team, it was an easy decision for me at the end. But yeah, I’ve had it a long time ago, five, six, seven years ago where something like that happened. It was a strange one, but I’m all good. I’m ready to go this week.

Richard Valero: Branden, Houston obviously wasn’t too kind to you. How quickly do you shift your focus to the next tournament instead of staying stuck in the one that might not have gone your way?

BRANDEN GRACE: I’ve probably had seven of those this year, so for me it’s — the good thing is it’s only halfway through the season. There’s a lot of golf left. I’ve had two unbelievable seasons the last two. I don’t feel I’m too far away from kind of what I had the last two years.

It helps being part of a team like this and having these guys. We’ve been — I’ve had some late brain sessions with them on the range trying to help me out and giving me some advice and that sort of stuff, and at the end of the day it’s just one little feeling that you need to get back, and that’s the feeling that gets you from finishing in 45th position to winning again.

As golfers, we all have our ups and downs. That’s just golf. It’s the toughest thing in life, the crazy sport that we do.

But we still love it. We still get up every day. We still practice. The motivation is still there. I need to play well to be out here again next year. That’s the main focus, and just trying to win golf events.

Check out the video version of Branden answering here: