Yesterday, after Matt Every shot 64 to take the lead at the Sony Open in Hawaii, he was interviewed by Kelly Tilghman of The Golf Channel. It was “awkward/weird”. See for yourself:

What’s strange about the exchange isn’t the insensitivity of Tilghman’s questioning, it’s how she ploddingly refers to Every’s troubles (from a year and a half ago) along the way. Tilghman seeds the interview with pedestrian references to pot-culture: she says he’s “in the zone”, that he “seems like a pretty mellow guy”, and asks if he’s “taking adavantage of some of the amenities” available in Hawaii.

Tilghman’s next move is a clumsy rhetorical pivot that doesn’t make a shred of sense, even in TV-land; she refers to the mountain behind them and how it reminds her of Every’s favorite TV show, which has the same title of how Every might have felt after having been arrested for marijuana possession in 2010, and the subsequent 3-month suspension from the PGA Tour.

Preceding this trainwreck, Every gave a traditional post-round interview in the media center. The PGA Tour just posted a transcript of this, without eleven questions and answers that refer in which Every discusses his arrest back in 2010. Fortunately, ASAP Sports posted an earlier transcript, in full, with the questions intact.

Here are the missing 11 questions and answers:

Q. Just go play?
MATT EVERY: Yeah. Just try and stay out of trouble this year.

Q. You brought up the incident at Deere. Not as much talk about what happened but how it has affected you over the remainder of that year, and obviously you only had did you have like Disney was all you had to try and keep your card?
MATT EVERY: Yeah.

Q. And then how you focused on that or what you did to kind of get that behind you.
MATT EVERY: Those three months that I was off, I did practice a lot for Disney, but I mean, how much can you really expect having a threemonth layoff trying to I think I had to finish probably top 5 or top 10 to have any kind of status for the next year. As far as putting it behind me, though, I have other stuff that is important to me. I didn’t really I was pissed for sure, like for probably a good month, but then after that, it was kind of like I didn’t write off Disney and say, I already know I’m not going to get my status. But I kind of in the back of my mind was like, okay, we’re going to have to go to Qschool this year and try and get it, but I didn’t. So then I was on the Nationwide, and once I got my card through the Nationwide last year, I kind of feel like it’s completely behind me now. I felt like my penalty for getting in trouble was not only the three months but being on the Nationwide Tour last year.

Q. Why were you upset?
MATT EVERY: A lot of reasons, man. I was upset at myself. I was upset at there’s some stuff I can’t talk about, but I was pissed at the way it was handled. I don’t know. I’m not a I don’t do drugs. It was a crappy deal, man. Wrong place, wrong time, perfect storm, and you know, I got three months out of it. It’s over with. I’m not mad at the TOUR. They did what they had to do. I totally understand it. But it’s over with.

Q. Did you have to make a lifestyle change at all because of that?
MATT EVERY: No, man, I’m married, I’ve got a kid on the way. I’m not like this party animal.

Q. I’m not suggesting that, but maybe the guys you might have hung with or something like that?
MATT EVERY: No, I still hang out with the same people. I have great friends, man. If one of my friends likes to smoke marijuana every now and then, I’m not going to say, well, you can’t be my friend anymore. Honestly, man, I know more people who smoke marijuana than who don’t smoke marijuana. I know that’s probably not the politically correct thing to say, but it’s the truth. It’s not a big deal to me. Like I don’t frown upon people doing that stuff. I don’t do it, but I don’t frown upon it.

Q. You lost for me a second when you said you were upset about the way it was handled. It got me thinking that you didn’t like the way the TOUR handled it, but then you said you’re not upset with the TOUR at all. What part of the handling things did I miss there?
MATT EVERY: Well, the I don’t think the police handled it very well. But whatever. And the TOUR, too, man, if they would have thrown a month at me instead of three, that would have been nice.

Q. Did you think the punishment fit the crime?
MATT EVERY: Probably, but there’s nothing I can do about it now. We’re all under the TOUR. I’m not bigger than the TOUR, never will be. It’s their call, and I did it, and it’s over with.

Q. Is it a stretch to say that once you got back to once you paid your penalty of Nationwide essentially, which I think is correct, that you look at this as a second start at all, this season?
MATT EVERY: Yeah, I honestly kind of feel like a rookie out here this year, because I was doing just fine until I got to Hilton Head. I broke my finger, six weeks there, then I get back and I was out for like two weeks, then get in trouble, there’s three months. My rookie year was cut I still almost kept my status and played half the tournaments that everybody else played. I feel like it was a pretty good year for me. I just didn’t get to play much.

Q. Is there any question in your mind if you hadn’t been off for those three months that you would have kept your card?
MATT EVERY: Oh, man, I would have been well, if I didn’t break my finger I think I would have kept my card, even if I got those three months, because I was playing really well. But I can’t I mean, that’s not fair for me to say. Everyone can say, oh, if I would have done this.

Q. But you felt like you were playing well enough could have kept it?
MATT EVERY: Yeah. I mean, yeah. There was plenty of tournaments left. And the tournaments I missed were New Orleans, huge purse; Charlotte; TPC; Byron Nelson; Colonial. I was in all of those. And then I got four starts last year. No offense to these tournaments, they’re great, and I’m going to play them this year, but I get Puerto Rico, Mexico. That’s not really that fair, but whatever.