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Third Round Leader Interview Transcripts
9/5/05 1:02 PM

Interview transcripts from the third round leaders at TPC Boston follow.  For Live Scoring, click here to see up-to-date scoring and statistics from PGATOUR.com

 

An Interview With BILLY ANDRADE

TODD BUDNICK:  We welcome Billy Andrade, one of five winners of the CRESTOR Charity Challenge today.  $50,000 will be donated on behalf of CRESTOR and the Deutsche Bank Championship to the Tiger Woods Foundation, and $50,000 will go to the healthcare charity of your choice.  Congratulations on that.  Two birdies today, one to start and one to finish and pretty steady golf in between.
BILLY ANDRADE:  Pretty steady, yeah.  I'm feeding off of Jim McCabe over there and it's been good so far.
 You know, I hit a lot of really good putts today.  I think I putted today as good as I've ever putted, and kept lipping them out here and there, with some birdies on front nine.  I made some nice up and downs early in the back nine, and then had some chances coming in and didn't get it, finally got the last one to go down.


I was pretty proud of making the birdie on last because I knew 10 under was a lot better than 9 with everybody bunched up.  I liked way I played.  I was very confident out there today and I'm looking forward to tomorrow.  I can't wait.

 TODD BUDNICK:  Talk about that, you haven't been a winner since Vegas in 2000. 
BILLY ANDRADE:  I'm getting these feelings; I'm feeling great about the way I'm handling myself.  It's like I haven't played bad in a while.  I feel like I'm rolling in the right direction, so I am ecstatic.  I can't wait.  I'm ready to go right now.  I love this position.  I'm not going to back down.  I'm going to go for it tomorrow and I'm going to play exactly the same way I played today and the first two days, and we'll see what happens.  If it's my time to win, then I'll win and if not, whoever wins you tip your cap and go to Canada.

TODD BUDNICK:  Keep your eye out on fellow Rhode Islander, Brad Faxon.
 BILLY ANDRADE:  I think I might have to being into Barrington tomorrow morning and put a banana in his tail pipe.  I saw he had a great round today which is not surprising.  I think he's going to be    obviously he's rolling, he's confident, he's playing well.  Usually you win, and the next week with all of the hoopla he's gone through, it's tough the first day.  But once you get through to like tomorrow, I think he'll probably feel as good as he's felt all week.  I just picture he's going to probably be in the mix along with everybody else.
 Like I said years ago, when Greg Norman was the No. 1 player in the world, I don't think he was worried about if my name was on that leaderboard on Sunday.  So I can't really be worried about Brad or anybody else.  I have to take care of me and go out there and keep doing what I'm doing.

 Q.  What did you hit on 18, you had 237?
 BILLY ANDRADE:  I put a 5 wood in the bag this week that I got that is specifically for that 18th hole really, because you don't want to go in there with a 2  or a 3 iron.  If that's the case you might as well just lay it up.  It's a sidehill lie and it's a tree on the left that you've got to watch out for, if you pull it a little bit.  I was trying to cut it because if I hit it a normal shot, I would have flown the green, so it was a cut shot and I hit a pretty good shot, I just over cut it.  I didn't think it came up short.  I could hit that club 240 in the air easy.  That was the situation there.  You've got to go there; you can't be laying up.  You can stuff it in there with that club I felt like, maybe to try and make eagle.  If I get in that position again tomorrow, I'll probably do the same thing.

 Q.  You talk about earlier, you mentioned in your opening remarks, it's fun to watch when you're in contention because while you always play hard, you look like you clearly love being about that position.  Can you talk about your feelings of being in contention?
 BILLY ANDRADE:  I think I'm not sloppy.  It's very clear what I'm doing.  I'm very calm.  I don't make little stupid mistakes like flub a chip and hit make bogey.  I think when you're in this position, I think all players play like this.  You know, you're sharp, and I just love it.  I just love being in this situation.  I love this feeling.  I love teeing it up.  This is what it's all about when you can go through periods of really bad play, but the bottom line is, when you get into these situations, you've got to go for it.  That's what I'm going to do tomorrow.  I just love it.  I can't wait to wake up and go back out there again.

It's neat to do it at home.  All of my wins have not been around where I grew up and/or where I live in Atlanta, and it's really cool to be able to play well in front of your home crowd.  I really didn't have a whole lot of success up at Pleasant Valley and Wooster.  I did okay maybe a couple of times, but nothing like this with a chance to win.  Nothing would be more gratifying to back up Faxon's win last week with doing it here this week.

 Q.  Following up on what you said, being in the lead here, are you anymore nervous?
 BILLY ANDRADE:  Not really.  I think when we get inside the ropes, I truly believe it doesn't matter if it's New England or Maui.  You're still going out there executing shots and wanting to play well.  The only difference is the accent when they start screaming and hollering at you a little different here, which I'm a little familiar with.  Today I was Barrington.  I was from Fall River, I was from all over southeastern Massachusetts, and no one once said Bristol.  Maybe they will get that right tomorrow.  It's really great to have people cheering you on because it's usually the other way around.  If you're playing with Tiger or playing with Freddie Couples, or Phil Mickelson at the third round at Doral this year was just    it was just unbelievable.  There was not one "Bill."  There was a million "Phils" being yelled.  It's kind of neat that they are yelling your name.  But you're still focused in on what you're trying to do and it would be great to win here.  But when you're in the ropes you're still kind of focused in on what you're trying to accomplish.

 Q.  You had a couple pretty good birdie chances on the front side, but were 10,11, 12 key holes to your round, saving par?
 BILLY ANDRADE:  Yeah, absolutely.  That's the key to anyone's round.  When you don't hit greens, you have to get up and down.  Probably the worst shot I hit all week was the one on 11 today.  I was kind of in between, it was a hard hole.  It's a hard shot, you can't keep it on the green.  Tim Petrovic today hit a beautiful shot and hit it right on the front edge and he was over.  So it's a tough one to hit.  I didn't let that one go, but I got up and down nicely.

 The next hole I drove it in the right bunker and I had a terrible lie.  So I was pretty happy to hit it where I hit it in two and I had a beautiful chip up there to three feet which is big.  But when you're making those nice up and downs to keep your round together is what you need to do, especially in the third round when you're close to the lead.

 Q.  From Friday last week to the first round this week, can you crystallize the one thing that turned it around?
 BILLY ANDRADE:  I would say that really talking to Brad after he won, talking about the mental side of putting.  Where he was was very similar to where I am, where I was which is getting all wrapped up in mechanics and thinking too much and not letting it go.  Dr. Coop came in early this week and that's a lot of stuff we worked on.  I don't care what I do, I don't care if I miss every putt until I die, as long as I let the putt go, and that's just really neat to be able to do that.  And I've done that, really with my driver and my iron play, for about two years now since I started working with Dick.

 But my putting, still I haven't got over that hump yet.  For some reason, talking to Brad on Sunday it kind of, you know, a spark went off like going, yeah, that's exactly what I'm doing.  I talked to Dick about it and he was like, okay, we have to come up with a way to have you let this putter go.  I'm a pretty good study of you, all right, you tell me what I need to do.

 Golf is different than any other sport.  You have coaches in other sports that motivate you.  The only motivating coach I have is my college coach and he would get on me and I would go out, and I liked that.  But in golf, we don't have that.  Like my brother in law signed with the Houston Rockets and in his press conference he said "Jeff van Gundy, put a spark me and he got me going."  He said, "I traded for you, I want you to play, and he got him going."  See, we don't have that in golf.  We don't have somebody to tell us.  We have swing coaches and sports psychologists to get you in the right frame of mind, but nobody to give you a little spark when you need it, like, "let's go," somebody that really, like a great coach.

 So I think that kind of went off with me, like, okay, I know the direction I need to go, I can go with it.  That's what I've been doing is just letting it go.  And if I fail, I fail.  At least I do it letting it go versus worrying about, "oh, don't hit it there, oh, my God, I don't want to go over there."  And then you go there most of the time.  And that's awful.  It doesn't matter if you're a pro or a 20 handicap.  It's the same thing.  If you don't let the shot go, then you're not going to hit good shots.  That's kind of it in a nutshell.

 TODD BUDNICK:  Let's go over your birdies.
 BILLY ANDRADE:  Sand wedge first hole in the left rough to about 15 feet and made a beautiful putt.
 And the last hole, I thought I made my bunker shot, I don't know how close it came, but I had about four and a half,  5 footer there.  I was really happy to get that to go down and a lot of good ones in again.
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An Interview With: OLIN BROWNE

TODD BUDNICK:  We welcome the last of the CRESTOR Charity Challenge winners this week, five of them, five way tie, first time in history here.  Olin you'll be able to donate $50,000 to the healthcare charity of your choice, and you'll have a chance heading into tomorrow for another victory, your third on TOUR.  Talk a little about that heading into tomorrow.
 OLIN BROWNE:  I think I won't think about that much until I'm coming down the stretch tomorrow.  But very pleased to be in this position.

Obviously it was a difficult day out there.  I felt that the course played exceedingly difficult in the afternoon.  The pins were in good places and the greens really got firm, and if you didn't drive it in the fairway, you're going to have a lot of trouble keeping it on the green, let alone getting it where you need to make a putt.  I managed to sneak a couple in and get in under par.  It wasn't a great ball striking day, wasn't a great day at all, but it was a good enough day to keep me in it.

 TODD BUDNICK:  When you see scores like this morning and seems like maybe the course is going to get down more than it has the last few days, do you think about it?
 OLIN BROWNE:  No, because you know the difference between the morning and the afternoon.  In the morning the greens are holding a lot of moisture.  There's still some dew on the grass and the guys are obviously free wheeling it; 1 under, 2 under, 3 under, they have absolutely nowhere to go but forward.

 But as the day progresses, we had an extra late start today anyway, and this cool air and low humidity and breeze, is it just sucked the moisture right out of the greens, and there were some very, very difficult pins, especially coming down the stretch, 15, 16, 17, and 18.  So I'm not at all displeased to get in under par.  Hope I can be just a little bit sharper for tomorrow.

 Q.  18, was that a tough yardage?
 OLIN BROWNE:  That was a very tough yardage.  I laid up too close to the green.  I was trying to get down to where I had lob wedge distance and it just took a really hard hop in the fairway, and just pitched a 7 iron on my lay up, on my second shot.  I had 177 to my number and I hit 7 iron and hit it 12 inches too far, just took a bonus bounce, I guess, and so instead of having 85 to the pin, I had 74 or something, on a downhill lie to a tight flag, so nowhere for me to bump it in there.  It was a difficult shot.  I made a pretty good pass but because the flight of the ball was coming in lower than it would normally, didn't quite carry the distance I wanted it to, but I did manage to get it up and down.

 Q.  A tight leaderboard, my acute observation of the day.
 OLIN BROWNE:  I didn't look at it all day long.  I saw there were five of us tied and a bunch of guys at nine.  No different than it is every week, is it?

 Q.  We haven't had five in the top in 26 years?
 OLIN BROWNE:  Come on.  On TOUR?

 Q.  '83.
 OLIN BROWNE:  I was barely born in '83, come on.
 Well, you know, like I said, there were a couple of guys that came out of the      well, I think Kent Jones, I'm playing with him tomorrow.  He shot 62 today, right?

 Q.  63.
 OLIN BROWNE:  That's awesome.  And John Rollins.  It can be done.  The course is there for the taking this morning.  The truth is you could score this afternoon, but you had to be sharp.  I think a couple of guys coming in shot 2  or 3 under, and that was pretty much low in the last hour or so, wasn't it.  It was tough.  It was tough out there.  The wind was blowing.  It was hard to pull the right club and when you did pull the right club, you had to hit the right shots.

 Q.  Could this have gotten away from you after 5?
 OLIN BROWNE:  I suppose it could have.  I made some nice putts.  I made a wicked putt on 9 for par and I made a couple    I guess I made about a 7 footer on 7 -- and then I played more solidly on the back.  I think I missed one green on the back.  I settled down a little bit, just stopped trying to hit perfect shots and I hit solid shots and I managed to shoot under par the last nine.

 Q.  Yesterday    inaudible?
 OLIN BROWNE:  Yesterday I was smoking.  It's hard to change your mentality, too.  I'm too stubborn to adjust on the fly.  It took me a couple of bogeys to settle down and say quit trying to be perfect.  Hopefully I can get off to a good start tomorrow and get a good rhythm and get some solid shots and get under par early and go low.

 Q.  Inaudible?
 OLIN BROWNE:  You know, you feel it out there.  We'll be in the last few groups and the crowd will be letting us know what's going on.  The crowd is always quick to let you know when you have misread a putt.  We'll know where we are.

 Q.  The crowd was pretty sparse in the front nine on the last group; is that the nature of the layout of the back nine?
 OLIN BROWNE:  I think part of the deal is the front nine.  Once you're on the front nine, you're stranded.  You go out, you're in the middle of nowhere.

And the other factor was Tiger was playing earlier and they were all following him.  I think things got a little bit thicker towards the middle of the back nine I noticed the last few holes.  It's late, Labor Day weekend, I thought the crowds were pretty good considering I think half the people were down on the Cape.

 TODD BUDNICK:  Birdies and Bogeys?
 OLIN BROWNE:  No. 2, I hit a good drive off the tee.  I was surprised I had a number I could get home on that hole, and I was vacillating between clubs, got it over the green nice.
 4, I made a dumb bogey.  I tried to squeeze a sand wedge in there and plugged it in the bunker.  Really had no chance of getting up and down.
 5, I hit a really good shot that took a bad hop and I ended up in the bunker dent gate up and down either.
 After that, things settled down.

 Q.  Inaudible?
 OLIN BROWNE:  Second shot on the left.  I tried to hit a 5 iron in there.  I hit a bad tee shot, kind of blocked it to the right.  I was trying to punch a 5 iron, kind of have it skid up to the upper deck, and it landed perfectly.  And then the second hop it caught the corner of the ridge and kicked that left and went in the bunker.  Would have been a good shot if it would have been just a foot to the right but I made bogey.

 Then I made a great par on 9.  Again, I kind of overcooked a draw into that pin and had a really brutal lie and kind of    it was really a funky lie.  I just kind of bellied the wedge shot, maybe about a 40 footer and I somehow made it.  That really was a significant hole of my day today.  I could have gone 2 over for the day.  But then I made a really good birdie on 12, made a good 9 iron in there about eight feet and made it. 14 was a classic example of showing a little patience after getting nipped early.  I was in between clubs and I have been trying to squeeze the lesser club in there all day long, and on that hole I just took one extra (7 iron) and hit a little cut to that back right pin and left myself with a 20 footer and happened to make it which was nice and I made pars on the way in.

 Q.  Inaudible?
 OLIN BROWNE:  I had a 2 footer for par.  I tried to squeeze a wedge in there and left it short.  I made a bad lay up and I had the wrong number coming in there, really a bad number.  It was brutal out there, the sun dropped below the trees and you couldn't see anything, especially for us older guys.  It was just hard, you know.  I was kind of surprised frankly that we teed off as late as we did today, and I'll be looking forward to playing an hour and a half earlier tomorrow.

 Q.  The two times you won, you came from just a little bit behind; right?
 OLIN BROWNE:  Yes.

 Q.  Other guys have never won before, we have Pettersson, Bohn just won, but curious, when you get to the payday, the winning day    and there's two of you tied for the lead and you're ahead of anybody and it's on you, it doesn't maybe alleviate things but there's 30 of you tied for the lead or whatever it is, but the dynamic, is it different?  
 OLIN BROWNE:  I understand what you're getting at.  We just have to wait until the last few holes to see the way things shake out.  With as many guys as there are tied for the lead or one back or two back, there's going to be a lot of jockeying for position.  The important thing is to catch a rhythm, catch a groove, hit as many quality shots as possible throughout the day which takes the stress off your game, and if you have a chance on the last couple of holes you have to take your crack.
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An Interview With: JASON BOHN

TODD BUDNICK:  We welcome Jason Bohn, who is tied for the lead in the clubhouse through three rounds of the Deutsche Bank Championship after a 4 under 67 today, 2 under on the front nine and then kind of a roller coaster type back nine there for you today.
 JASON BOHN:  Yeah, absolutely.  I think I only made one par on the back nine.  But that's kind of this golf course, you hit good shots, you get rewarded.  You hit bad ones and you get penalized.  I hit a few bad ones in a row, and you know, I kind of got my head down and then actually I ate a peanut butter and jelly sandwich, and I don't know what that did for me but turned me around to birdie my last four.   I don't know, I'll have peanut butter and jelly in my bag tomorrow, I'll guarantee you that.

 TODD BUDNICK:  Two guys, Kent Jones and John Rollins early on posted good scores, so you think they are out there but the afternoon comes around and nobody makes a move.  Can you talk about the conditions?
 JASON BOHN:  I think the afternoon the winds swirl a little bit differently than they do in the morning maybe.  Definitely the greens get about a step harder, a good pace harder.  It's a little bit more difficult to kind of get to those tucked pins, so, you know, the greens are getting a little bit more firmer, a little bit more spiked up than in the morning but you've got to take your hat off to anybody that shoots 8 under par on this golf course.

 TODD BUDNICK:  You picked up your first win earlier this year at the B.C. Open, you're in contention for your second one, talk about the possibilities and what you're looking for heading into tomorrow.
 JASON BOHN:  I've been a player all my life that plays with my heart.  I just go out there and grind as hard as I can.  Today it worked out for me last few days.  All three days I played like I did today.  Played really solid at times and then I've kind of thrown in a couple holes of disaster and then managed to bounce back from it.  So for tomorrow, I'm just going to go out there and try to do the same thing I've done the last three days, you know, pick my points on when to be aggressive, and hopefully hole a bunch of putts and come out on top.

 Q.  Peanut butter jelly sandwich, was it crunch peanut butter and    inaudible?
 JASON BOHN:  Yes, I make two peanut butter and jelly sandwiches every day and I put them in my bag.  I ate the peanut butter and jelly sandwich walking down the 14th hole when I managed to make a good, solid par.  It is crunchy peanut butter, and it's    sorry?  Grape jelly on whole wheat bread.

 Q.  Were you eating peanut butter and jelly sandwich?
 JASON BOHN:  No, I wasn't eating a peanut butter and jelly sandwich at that time but I should have been but I was eating a peanut butter and jelly sandwich when I won the B.C. Open, more importantly.

 Q.  Inaudible?
 JASON BOHN:  Well, actually I have been eating a lot of these energy bars at the turn and I kind of felt like I got a big kind of sugar rush.  So I got a lot of energy for four or five holes and I felt like I crashed a little bit harder.  So I felt like I'm looking for something and I load the peanut bitter with a touch of jelly to make it go down.  I feel like it lasts longer in my stomach and gives me a little bit more energy.

 Q.  What was your mindset after the third straight birdie, to turn it around like that    inaudible?
 JASON BOHN:  You know, actually, I give a lot of credit to my round yesterday.  I couldn't get anything going yesterday.  I hit some bad shots and then coming in, I told my caddie standing on 16 tee yesterday that I was going to finish three, three, three, and I did.
So I knew that those holes coming in, you can make birdies on them if you hit good shots, and I was confident in the way that I finished yesterday so I was looking for a good, strong finish today.  But to birdie my last four, I don't know, I hope I can do that tomorrow, because I think I'll be right there if I can.

 Q.  What happened on 18?
 JASON BOHN:  On 18 I had 201 to the hole, and I tried to hit a high, cut 4 iron in there to land it as soft as I could.  I hit a great shot.  Couldn't find my pitch mark so I don't know if it landed on the green.  Might have landed on the fringe.  I might have had 12, 13 feet coming down the hill, and misread the putt.  But I hit it right where I was looking, but I thought the putt would go left and it kind of hangs and goes maybe even a touch to the right.

 Q.  Could you talk about how you feel now with a chance to win and contrast that with the way you felt at the B.C. Open?
 JASON BOHN:  I'm really calm now.  The B.C. Open I was a little more anxious I think on Saturday but felt fairly calm.  The B.C. Open was really my first contention    first time I was ever in contention to win a PGA TOUR event.   Right now I'm going to go do some work tonight and have a great dinner with my wife and my little boy and just kind of take it easy.
 Tomorrow is the day to think about tomorrow, not today.

 Q.  Was the other win come from behind?
 JASON BOHN:  I wasn't going into the day with the lead.  I was actually one shot off the lead going into Sunday.

 Q.  Inaudible?
 JASON BOHN:  Yeah, sure, but to me, the tournaments that are opposite a major or opposite World Golf Championships are great opportunities for me being just a two year guy.  I look at those tournaments as kind of like majors for us.  Those are opportunities that if we can't get in the larger field events, we still have a place to play, and a win is a win on the PGA TOUR.
 Most definitely, to win in a field like Deutsche Bank would be an unbelievable honor, but to win any time is an unbelievable honor on the PGA TOUR.

 TODD BUDNICK:  Let's go through your card, Jason.  You started with birdies on 4 and 5.
 JASON BOHN:  Wow, that seems like a long time ago.  Actually I struggled with those two holes the previous day, so I was trying to get them back a little bit.  No. 4, I hit a perfect tee shot.  I had I think 113 to the hole and hit a sand wedge in there probably, I'm going to say maybe 15 feet pin high left of the hole.  Hit a great putt, so right in the front edge.
 No. 5, hit a great tee shot down the right hand side of the fairway and I think I had maybe 161 to the hole.  I hit a 7 iron right up against the wind, and never left the flagstick.  Kind of landed maybe one pace, about three feet just beyond the flag and I had a 12 footer right down the hill.  Will Mackenzie, who I played with today, actually putted his ball from the front of the green just past my mark.  So I got a perfect read on that putt.  I actually had misread that putt until I watched his putt.  His putt broke left at the hole and I was thinking it was going all the way.  Without that read I probably won't have made that putt either.

 Q.  Was he eating a peanut butter and jelly sandwich?
 JASON BOHN:  I need to give him a peanut butter and jelly sandwich.
 No. 10, I hit a 2 iron off the tee just to try to play for good position there, and I think I hit 7 iron in from 155.  I was trying to hit a cut up against the wind.  I probably had 25 feet    20, 22 feet and there again, Will Mackenzie hit it over the green, chipped it past where my mark was only by about two feet and gave me another perfect read.  I mean, I've got to pat him on the back.  He gave me a couple of great reads today.

 TODD BUDNICK:  And bogey, bogey, bogey.
 JASON BOHN:  Yeah, actually on No. 11, I hit a great tee shot.  I was trying to hit a 4 iron in there and I hit it right where I was looking and it just landed just over the bunker but then bounced back down in the bunker.  I hit a good, spinning bunker shot maybe three feet just above the hole.  I read my putt to go inside the left edge, I hit it right where I was trying to, and the ball broke left on me and spun out.  That wasn't such a bad bogey.

But then No. 12, I hit driver and drove it right in the fairway bunker on the right side.  Kind of hit a thin 9 iron over the green, pitched it to probably six or seven feet and didn't hit a very good putt there.

13, hit a good tee shot, I hit 6 iron in from like 188.  Probably hit a good second shot but the wind kind of grabbed it and moved it a little bit to the left.  Bounced just off the green and I think I caught a terrible lie there, one of my kind of poor breaks, actually.  I really had to hit a hard chip shot going down the hill just to get through the lie.  Ran it probably 12 feet past.  I actually misread that putt.  So my green read doesn't sound too good today, so I need Will Mackenzie to putt in front of me on every hole.

 15, hit a great tee shot right down the middle.  I was in between eight and 9 iron, and I decided to hit just a little soft 8.  I flew it in there and had maybe six feet coming down the hole.  Hit a great putt.  Good read.

 Then 16, the par 3, I hit a 5 iron.  Kind of hit it a little bit heavy but I knew it was enough to carry the water.  It landed just over the green and chased it back about six feet just beyond the hole, another good read and made that.

 17, I hit a 3 wood off the tee.  I had 123 in.  I hit a sand wedge out to the right of the hole trying to catch the slope and spun it down in there about    I was about two inches from LPGA's ball.  He hit hit putt and had rolled off to the right and I made my putt.

 19, great tee ball, carried the bunkers and the spotter said it hit like a cannon and took off racing down there, and I had 201 in.

 Q.  How far on 17?
 JASON BOHN:  Couldn't have been four and a half feet.

 TODD BUDNICK:  Thanks, Jason.  Good luck tomorrow.
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An Interview With:  CARL PETTERSSON

 TODD BUDNICK:  We welcome Carl Pettersson at 10 under, 203 and part of the clubhouse lead after three rounds of the Deutsche Bank Championship.  Carl, two bogeys early and looks like five birdies out there.  Kind of a nice day for you.
 CARL PETTERSSON:  Yeah, good. I thought the golf course played pretty tough today and the greens firmed up, but I played good.  I played real nice, drove it good and putted well.

 TODD BUDNICK:  What was working well for you today?
 CARL PETTERSSON:  I scrambled well.  When I missed the greens I got it up and down.  I made some nice par putts today.  That's the key, any time you can make a few putts for par, it kind of keeps the momentum going and carries you through the day.

 TODD BUDNICK:  Going back to the toughness of the course, early on, there were the two 63s and looked like it was going to be a different story from the first two rounds, and yet the course came back and bit again.
 CARL PETTERSSON:  Yeah, I think the greens are fairly soft in the morning and you can shoot a low one, but later in the day they get crisp.  Tough to get close on a few pins, but you can still shoot a good score, you just have to play really well.

 Q.  Did you play here last year?
 CARL PETTERSSON:  I didn't play it last year.  I played in '03, I think I finished tied for 11th.  Seems to fit me good.

 Q.  Why didn't you play last year?
 CARL PETTERSSON:  We were expecting our first child.

 Q.  (Inaudible.)
 CARL PETTERSSON:  No, it's just the wind.  Any time you have get a little breeze it's tough to get close to the pins.  I think that's what made it difficult.

 Q.  (Inaudible.)
 CARL PETTERSSON:  Yeah, yeah, exactly.  A little nervous today because I haven't played very good this year, but as the round went on I got more comfortable and I felt fine, I felt great out there.  I hope I can keep that up tomorrow. 
 Any time you're in the hunt like this, it's good to be nervous.  To me, it makes me focus better and sometimes on Thursdays and Fridays, it's tough to concentrate.

 Q.  What is the key to the low score?
 CARL PETTERSSON:  You have to get the putter going.  I think if you get the putter going, you can shoot as low as you want.  Obviously you have to play well, but to shoot well you have to putt well, you have to make everything to shoot a round of 62.

 TODD BUDNICK:  Let's go through your holes starting with the bogey on No. 5.
 CARL PETTERSSON:  5, I pulled my tee shot into the left fairway trap and hit it over and hit the top lip, came up about 30 yards short of the pin, pitched it up and 2 putted for bogey.
 6, I hit a 3 wood in the fairway and then a 9 iron about 15 feet.
 8, I hit a 5 iron pin high right about 40 feet.
 9, I hit a good tee shot, pulled an 8 iron left of the green and hit a decent chip.  Hit a bad putt and missed the putt.
 12, I hit a driver and a 7 iron to about 12 feet and made it.
 15, I hit driver, 9 iron to about 14 feet and made it.
 18, I hit a driver in the fairway, 3 iron just short of the green.  I was actually in the hazard and pitched it up to about ten feet.
 TODD BUDNICK:  Thank you, Carl.  Good luck tomorrow.
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Quotes from:  KENT JONES

Q.  Let's go over your birdies and bogies.
 KENT JONES:  First hole, wedged it to six feet I think and made that.
 4, hit a wedge to six inches, so tapped in.
 5, hit a 6 iron probably ten feet behind the hole, made that.
 7, wedged it to I guess about ten feet, made that put.
 11, hit a terrible tee shot, chunked my shot, had 40 yards, pitched it up and made probably a 12  or 15 foot putt downhill for par.
 Then on 13, hit it to an inch, tapped in.
 14, 15, I hit a wedge to probably five feet and made that.
 16, I made kind of a probably, 30 footer and broke eight feet.  Looked like it was picking up speed and then it went in, so that was kind of lucky.
 Made a really good two put on 17 for par.
 And then wedged it to five feet on 18.

 Q.  So your wedge was hot today?
 KENT JONES:  Yeah, I was just lucky to be here after Friday.  Scrambled to par the last and I was lucky to be here, struggling the first two days and putted great and then all of the sudden today hit it a lot better.

 Q.  Some things you worked on on the range?
 KENT JONES:  Not really.  Something just clicked in my rhythm, I think a little something with my takeaway.  And probably my rhythm; it was really good today.  Wish I knew why.

 Q.   Did you work on something on the course or before that?
 KENT JONES:  I think a little bit beforehand but nothing, it just clicked on the course really.  Crazy, just all of a sudden everything was good rhythm.  We had a good group, good pace today, everything was great.

 Q.  Did the course play similar to the first two days?
 KENT JONES:  I think same kind of wind direction.  I would think so.  It�s still firming up a little bit.  The fairways are starting to firm up, so the ball is starting to run out.  I would guess it will be similar tomorrow.
 

Quotes from: JOHN ROLLINS

JOHN ROLLINS:  I played good, got out of the gate quick, kind of stumbled a little bit on the front.  But I actually joked with my caddie at the turn and told him that he was going to see the best 29 on the back nine, and I ended up shooting 28.
 I played great on the back, hit the ball great, made some putts, and here we go.

 Q.  Talk about the bunker shot you holed.
 JOHN ROLLINS:  I had a great lie, a little bit on the up slope, and just one of those that all you've got to do is get it out on line, onto the green was sloping down to the hole.  So just get it out and it will trickle down to the hole.  They are makeable when they are on the upslope, and just one of those it happened to go in.

 Q.  28, that's a new course record.
 JOHN ROLLINS:  Yeah, that's what I heard.  We have a long ways to go yet.  We have one more round to go so I've got to get ready for tomorrow and hopefully continue the good luck I've had on the back nine today and carry that into tomorrow.

 Q.  When you shoot a 63, a lot of things work well, but if you had to pick one thing?
 JOHN ROLLINS:  Well, I putted better than I did the first couple of days.  I've been hitting the ball pretty good and today I just managed to keep my ball on the right side.  The holes always seem to have a lot of uphill, not a lot of movement in some putts, and I managed to hole more than I have the first two days.  Then you chip in out of a bunker, to get two shots, so if I had to pinpoint one thing, it's really been the putter today more than anything else.
 

Quotes from: TIGER WOODS

Re: Talk about your round.

TIGER WOODS: Yeah, it was pretty much the same as yesterday, a little frustrating. I had two holes where any positive momentum I was trying to build deterred all that. I was trying to fight back the rest of the day.

Was there something that you can pin-point as the problem?

TIGER WOODS: Yeah, I am just not swinging well. I am not swinging well at the right time. For some reason, in these upshots, I am hitting it left, right and short. I just don�t have it this week. I am trying to hang in the best I can. At least I am making a couple putts to hang in there.

Q: Talked about how well you were playing. Is it double-ee frustrating?

TIGER WOODS: I was, yeah. I was playing well. I played well the first day. And for some reason� welcome to golf. You come out the next day and you just don�t have it and the last two days, I have not had it.

TIGER WOODS:  Depends on what the leaders do. If they go ahead and run away with this thing today and shoot 4 or 5 under par, then I pretty much have no chance. But if they stay where they are or if 10 is leading at the end of the day, maybe I can play a round like Johnny did today and get it going.

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