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2005 DEUTSCHE BANK CHAMPIONSHIP at the Tournament Player Club of Boston, Norton, Mass. FINAL STANDINGS 1. CHAMPION -- Olin Browne: 68-65-70-67--270 (-14) $990,000 2. Jason Bohn: 68-68-67-68--271 (-13) $594,000 3. Vaughn Taylor: 72-67-67-68--274 (-10) $374,000 4. Charles Howell III: 72-67-69-67--275 (-9) $216,562.50 Jeff Brehault: 67-66-72-70--275 (-9) $216.562.50 Joey Sindelar: 67-68-69-71--275 (-9) $216,562.50 Carl Pettersson: 68-67-68-72--275 (-9) $216,562.50 8. Brandt Jobe: 71-67-69-69--276 (-8) $165,000 Fred Couples: 70-67-70-69--276 (-8) $165,000 10. Mark Wilson: 67-70-71-69--277 (-7) $126,500 Marco Dawson: 69-66-71-71--277 (-7) $126,500 Brett Wetterlich: 68-68-69-72--277 (-7) $126,500 Kent Jones: 70-71-63-73--277 (-7) $126,500 An Interview With: OLIN BROWNE JOAN vT ALEXANDER: Congratulations, Olin, on winning the 2005 Deutsche Bank Championship. Why don't you just give us your feelings about being back in that winning circle again. OLIN BROWNE: Well, I'm not sure I can really put it into words. It's been quite a while, six years or so, and the first was sweet because obviously it was a playoff, I pitched in, but it all happened so fast. This one, I played well all week, I was near the leaderboard all week, I was in contention certainly going into the weekend, and it's a little bit different feeling to start out with a lead and play with it all day long and then finish it off. I couldn't be happier about the way I played.
JOAN vT ALEXANDER: Can you talk about that lead, you played that front nine beautifully after not struggling with the front nine but we talked about it in the scoring tent. OLIN BROWNE: The front nine is hard, the front nine is a lot of long holes and it's really challenging, and I seem to be making my hay on the back nine this week. But, you know, you've got to start on 1 on the last round and I managed to get off to a good start. I had good opportunities most of the nine and managed to get under par early, caught a groove for the day, caught a rhythm, managed to hang onto it and finish it off. Q. As much as anything on the back nine, was 11 the key? OLIN BROWNE: I was in between clubs there, and took the greater of the two and made sure I got past most of the trouble in front. But it's such a difficult hole, but I think the key to my week was that I played it 2 under this week and I kept hitting good shots on that hole. When I didn't, I managed to make a good recovery so, that was critical. Q. What club were you OLIN BROWNE: I hit 3 wood the second day, 7 wood the third day and 3 irons the last two days. Q. You were between 3 and 4 today? OLIN BROWNE: I was between 3 and 4 today. Q. You seem surprised that it carried that far. OLIN BROWNE: Well, it carried past the hole. I was trying to hit a cut and you know, you can't feel the wind there because it's straight down and the trees are protecting from behind. So I knew the wind was there, but I didn't expect it to fly 212, whatever it was, it carried 215 or so. Q. How bad was the lie? OLIN BROWNE: It was pretty bad. It was in the shade. It was where there was obviously a lot of sprinklers. The rough wasn't bad this week, except in selected locations, and that was one of them. Q. Are you going to try and play golf with your 94 year old grandmother every week for good luck from now on? OLIN BROWNE: I've always played golf with her. I just happened to miss the cut last week and went down and we drove around. I played nine holes and she putted most of the time and we had a great time. It's just really a visit. It's her birthday on the 7th, so I wish her a happy birthday. Q. Will she be 94? OLIN BROWNE: She'll be 94 on the 7th. Q. Of all of the things this comes with this win, be it the two year exemptions, the no more letters, calls, I can go on and on, what is most meaningful about this, what you did today? OLIN BROWNE: A year and a half ago, I called Jim Hardy. I had had it. I was just really irritated with my game and I was willing to give up thinking I knew how to play and let somebody else help me play better. You know, changes take a long time in this game. You guys have heard Tiger talk about it a lot, right? This validates a year and a half of busting my tail. Q. It's a risky move to change a swing when you're 44 years old and going nowhere. OLIN BROWNE: I avoided it for years just for that reason. I see a lot of guys come and go because they spend a lot of time checking their backswing on videotape, right. I had always resisted that temptation, and finally I just sucked so bad I couldn't do it anymore. You know, I was playing so poorly that I just couldn't take it anymore. He helped pull me back. I played better than I did before, too. Q. That's kind of the bottom line answer there. OLIN BROWNE: That's absolutely it. Q. Proving you can still be out here? OLIN BROWNE: I'm not proving it to anybody. I didn't want to play if I'm going to play poorly. I wanted to play well on top. Q. Where does Randy fit in? OLIN BROWNE: He's a buddy of mine I've known for 20 years. Q. So Jim is your swing coach? OLIN BROWNE: No, Randy is, as well. Randy is my sounding board, and he's seen the stages of my golf game, I've known him for a long, long time. He's seen the stages of my golf game and how I play, and his support is invaluable. He caddied for me at Qualifying School last year, for example. He's just a good man. Since we live nearby in Florida, and Jim lives in Houston, Jim and Randy are in communication, Olin and Jim, Randy and Olin, Jim and Randy; between the three of us. He's really been an integral part of this thing, too. Q. We talked early in the week about the Open and the tough day on Sunday, where did that fit in mentally for you, being there in '04 at the final group? OLIN BROWNE: At the Booz Allen. Q. But really few and far between otherwise sorry. OLIN BROWNE: It's cool. You can throw darts at me, I'm good. (Laughter). Q. Did Pinehurst go through your mind at all? OLIN BROWNE: Not even once today. I tell you what Pinehurst did. Pinehurst, I played great at Pinehurst. You know, I managed myself great at Pinehurst. Pinehurst is a pure Open. It was a pure U.S. Open. I know, I've been saying this over and over again, you guys have heard me say it, we were talking about it on the back of the range today, I played better Sunday than I did Friday or Saturday at Pinehurst. That place kicked my butt Sunday as it did a number of other people. I didn't play I didn't play like my score indicated. Q. You weren't sloppy? OLIN BROWNE: No, man, I was solid. It was just one of those deals. Man, it happens, and it's hard to explain it, but, hey, that's all part of the process, too. I mean, it's part of paying your dues, part of sucking it up, and this game teaches you a lot about being resilient and about handling adversity is the wrong word because we're playing golf. People in New Orleans are dealing with adversity. But golf teaches you how to embrace the concept that you're not going to get it right every time. And you have to you have to deal with that. For athletes, (chuckling), for athletes it's a hard thing to do because we're expected to be our best at all times. And what makes it really hard, is it's not a reaction sport. This is a premeditation sport. You're walking down the fairway, considering what your options are on the next shot that you're going to hit, how you're going to handle it, where you're going to go with it what you're going to do, bah dah, bah dah, bah dah, get your head handed to you a lot out here. You know, the people that do well out here, the people that do well out here are able to absorb that, deal with it, put it in a little compartment, send it somewhere where they don't need to be in and move on to the next step. Q. Did you in any way allow for the possibility that Jason Bohn would tie? OLIN BROWNE: Absolutely. I was considering it entirely. I didn't unpack my bags while I was in the trailer. My glove was in my pocket, my wallet was in the golf bag, I was ready to go back to the 18th tee. That was the nature of this game. Q. How much of your development as a young professional happened in the New England area? OLIN BROWNE: Oh, I played. After I got out of college, I played for a summer on the New England circuit playing as an amateur, and I came back the next summer and played as a professional, so I played the New England Open, the Vermont Open, Mass. Open, Rhode Island Open. Q. Did you practice at The Country Club? OLIN BROWNE: Yes, I did. My father's sister in law and husband were members there. Q. Is that Tom Frost? OLIN BROWNE: It is. Q. What was your best finish in any of those Opens; do you remember? OLIN BROWNE: I think I finished third in the Mass. Open to Kevin Johnson the year he won it. I finished Top 10 a lot in that tournament I did well in the New England Open. I was low amateur one year. Everybody turn around. See this guy that walked in? That's Buck Moore. That's my caddie. His son, Ricky Moore from UCONN. That man, awesome, right there. Q. How long did it take for you to get good? OLIN BROWNE: I'm still getting good. Q. My editor beat you in college and he's about a 7 now. OLIN BROWNE: We laugh about that a little bit. Jeff and I laugh about that a lot, as a matter of fact. Q. How long did it take you to get to scratch? OLIN BROWNE: I don't know. It's just all part of the journey. I dig the game and I love to play. I think somebody asked my wife one day, "When are you going to make him quit?" She says, "He loves doing this, I'm never going to make him quit." Thank you, Pammy. Somebody said, "When are you going to quit?" I said, "When I feel like I can't get better anymore, I'll quit." There's plenty of room for improvement, believe me. Q. What's the procedure of getting a sponsor's exemption? OLIN BROWNE: Yeah, you write a letter and beg your way along. Please invite me, I've won twice on TOUR, I've missed my card by a shot last year, I'm miserable and lonely and I don't have anywhere to play, please, please include me in your tournament, I'll do anything you want. I'll play in the Pro Am, I'll shake a bunch of hands, I'll wear one of your jackets, whatever, please. Q. How many of those did you write? OLIN BROWNE: Oh, 15 probably. Q. And how many did you get? OLIN BROWNE: I got five last year. Q. 15 the last two years? OLIN BROWNE: 15 each year. I had a good number, though. I got into 23 events 24 events last year on my number and I've gotten into 15 or 16 this year on my number. Actually Deutsche Bank, they gave me a spot this week, but I got in; so it all worked out for them and for me, which is great. Q. Do you remember Faxon giving you a putting tip just before you shot the 59? OLIN BROWNE: That guy is unbelievable with that magic wand, isn't he? Fax, he's a very generous man. Last year at Byron Nelson, in fact, I saw him on the putting green, and struggling and I asked him for some help and we started working on some stuff, and I had a pretty good run in the summertime. Then he helped me again, I forget where it was, earlier this year somewhere, I can't remember where it was, but maybe Houston or somewhere like that, I can't remember. He's such an astute man. He's bright and he's intuitive and he plays that way, as well (Buck's cell phone rings). That went off on the golf course today, by the way. (Laughter). Q. Which hole? OLIN BROWNE: No. 4. Q. Speaking of helping other, Jason Bohn was in here crediting you with helping him. Tell us what you did with him. OLIN BROWNE: I don't have any idea. You know, Jason, he's a relatively new player on TOUR. I think it's his second or third year, and he's already won and he's obviously a very talented player. I don't know, I think it's our responsibility and our obligation as player that if somebody comes up and asks for an opinion or some guidance about something, there's that mentality in golf. People have taken me under their wings, Tony Pena, Tom Walsh, Gil Cavanaugh, Jack Grout, Gardner Dickinson, the list goes on and on and on, and we're talking about people that take time to share their experiences. You know, a guy like Gil Cavanaugh, for example, he grew up in San Antonio but he was in the Met section forever and he worked for Vic Ghezzi. Does that name ring a bell with anybody? Won a major championship. These are priceless and you cannot quantify the value of experiences that people have had that they can share with younger players. That's the beauty of this game. So if somebody cares enough to ask me what I think about something, I will fully and gladly help out with that. I think, you know, everybody, virtually everybody takes on that responsibility. That's the beauty of what we do. Q. Were you ever nervous today? OLIN BROWNE: I was a lot calmer than I thought I would be. I was a lot calmer than I was yesterday. I was tight yesterday. But I cranked the tunes in the car on the way up here today, and I mean I'm surprised the windows still work. (Laughter). Q. What was it? OLIN BROWNE: Bruce Hornsby, a CD a buddy of mine made for me. And I kept listening to the same two songs. I kept flipping back and forth and just had a great bass beat and rhythm to it and put the mojo in me today. Q. Were you staying in Ducksberry? (Brad Faxon enters media center.) BRAD FAXON: Bruce Hornsby? OLIN BROWNE: You know what, this guy, he can't stand to not be part of the limelight. BRAD FAXON: Who is Bruce Hornsby? (Laughter). Let's go. Q. Who's that? (Laughter.) OLIN BROWNE: My putting guru right there. (Laughter). Get out of here. This is my show, beat it. (Laughter). Q. Olin, Randy was saying back to your mini tour days in Florida, you never had any backdown; you've never been a spectator, you've always relished going up against the competition, where do you think you pull that from? OLIN BROWNE: I don't know, my folks I guess my folks. You know, I think I'm probably competitive. I love to play. I mean, it's hard for me to express how great I think this game is, because it really it forces you in directions, and you know, you kind of have to learn to manage yourself, you've got to learn who you are and you have to learn to take it. It's really hard. You know, I'm reminded of a quote that Tom Hanks did in that movie, "A League of Their Own", somebody was complaining about it being too hard or whatever and he said, "Hard is what makes it good." And that is so cool. So I was stressed all week, I was grinding my guts out, you know, these greens are Stimping at about 87 on the Stimpmeter this week; they are slick and firm. If you don't hit a putt crisply and solidly, it's not going where you're aiming it. So it's very exacting. It's very demanding. I think that I probably gravitate towards that. Q. Money List question. I know it might be early, but coming into this event you're 119th on the Money List, can you talk about now that's not even on how do you feel about that? OLIN BROWNE: It's pretty cool. It's cool for me. I don't know if anybody else thinks it's cool, I think it's pretty cool. (Laughter). I'm digging it right now. You know, we're winding down on the year and that's obviously something that's a consideration. I wanted to play well today. I really didn't care what the outcome was. I just wanted to give it my best effort, and I think I did. Q. At 46, did you think you had anymore wins left in you? OLIN BROWNE: You can say all you want that you do, but it's irrelevant until it happens. So I thought I could play well, you know, whether, hey, somebody else could have shot 66 today, you know what I'm saying. Things fell my way, too. I hit the pin on one shot. Things happen when you play well. I made some I birdied No. 11 twice. You can barely hit the greens twice; I birdied it twice. Q. Is there any rhyme or reason why you played well? There's five guys there, two go up and three go down, other than the obvious, who hit better shots? OLIN BROWNE: I think, you know, everybody starts out their day, they want to play their best. But you have to step up and do it, and sometimes you can and sometimes you can't. It's just the nature of the game. I'm firmly convinced, I think Tiger has made a deal with the devil, because he plays great every day, right. Now, the rest of us have to take what we can get. I'm just happy that today I played as solidly as I did and for that matter, all week. Q. Was there ever any particular shot early in the round where you said: I'm on today, I feel good? OLIN BROWNE: I hit a good shot on 1. I hit a good iron shot following that up and I made sure I didn't drive it in the bunkers on 2 and I hit a good wedge into the green and made the putt. You know, if you can get under par early, it sets the tone for the day, so that's significant. Q. Have you thought what it's going to be like to be the defending champion next year? OLIN BROWNE: No. Q. When will it hit you? OLIN BROWNE: Next Media Day probably. Q. Going back to that shot on 13 when you hit the flagstick, does that sum up how well you hit the ball? OLIN BROWNE: I did have to say to myself, maybe it's going to be a good day today. Q. I didn't wants to linger on the letters, but if you had been in this same position again next year, how many do you think would you have gotten? OLIN BROWNE: I don't know. Q. Seven last year, four this year? OLIN BROWNE: Five this year. We talked about this yesterday, you know, at some point, it's nice to be invited. It's nice to be remembered for your commitment to the TOUR or having played for 15 years or whatever or knowing people. But at some point, you have to validate those invitations. People have to feel like they haven't wasted it on you. So the truth is, you know, I would always consider writing the letters, but your expectations go down a little bit, because at some point, you have to back it up, you've got to play. You have to play well, you can't expect people to let you linger.
JOAN vT ALEXANDER: Let's go through your birdies and the one bogey, starting on No. 2. OLIN BROWNE: I hit a sand wedge in there about five or six feet. It was a pretty easy read, had to make myself stick to my guns and make the putt. 4, after Buck's phone got turned off, I managed to step up there, I hit a good drive in there, hit a sand wedge, I had a good number and hit it 12 feet below the hole that. Put was really good, went right in the heart which was nice. It's always good to feel like you're picking good lines. 7, the par 5, I hit a pretty good shot. It was a tough pin today with the winds where it was. The ball tried to come back on us. I had about a 20 footer give or take. A little left to right break in it and it went in. 10, I hit a good 7 iron in there right behind the hole about eight feet and made it. 15, I missed a 6 footer. 17, a 7 iron from 163 and it was a little cutter. It was a difficult lie. That was a little bit of a hook lie and happened to come off perfectly. The best lie that I hit today. Buck gave me a little, "Let's make this one," and then I did. It was nice to have a two shot lead playing last hole. Q. Who was calling you, Buck? BUCK MOORE: I don't know. Really OLIN BROWNE: You should have seen him, he looked like somebody looking for his wallet. (Laughter). Trying to put out a fire. Q. How long have you been with Olin, how many years now? BUCK MOORE: (Smiling.) OLIN BROWNE: A couple years. He hasn't fired me yet, I'm doing all right. Q. How nice is it going to be to be able to play wherever you want to go the next two years? OLIN BROWNE: Really, really nice. Q. No more letters. OLIN BROWNE: No more letters. Q. Who appreciates that more, you or your wife? OLIN BROWNE: I've got to call here her. I know she's jumping up and down right now. She's such a great woman. She's the reason I'm here right now, you know, all of her. Q. What did your dad do? OLIN BROWNE: He worked for the Inter American Development Bank. Kind of like the World Bank, only Latin America. Q. And what was his thoughts when you told him you were going to OLIN BROWNE: He thought I was insane. Certifiably. It took me three bottles of won one night to talk him into it. He drank most of it. (Laughter). Q. After you told him? OLIN BROWNE: Yeah, maybe after I told him. Q. Will the card showing up for a couple mover years, the swing changes all taking hold with Jim Hardy, can you say this is the most excited you've been about your game ever? OLIN BROWNE: Yeah, this is really gratifying. It's really gratifying to play with the lead. This is a great field here, it's a really hard golf course. I mean, it does not suit my game. My petition shooter out there is not going very far. I a long course, close to 7,500 yards. If you looked at it on paper, you would not pick me out of a hat. Q. Beyond your grandmother, are there other relatives still in this area? OLIN BROWNE: Oh, yeah. Q. Could you tell us? OLIN BROWNE: They all live in Providence, a few in the Boston area. Q. Were many of them here today? OLIN BROWNE: Not a one, I don't think. That's okay. You know, everybody is back in school, people are back at work, headed back here, whatever. That's fine. I had lots of friends out here and lots of support. JOAN vT ALEXANDER: Thank you, Olin, and congratulations. OLIN BROWNE: Thank you, guys.
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An Interview With: JASON BOHN JOAN vT ALEXANDER: Thank you, Jason, for joining us for a few minutes here at the media center at the Deutsche Bank Championship. You had a great week, four rounds in the 60s, you've got to be real proud of how you played and happy about how the season has gone, especially this summer. JASON BOHN: Absolutely. Today was a big stepping stone for me. You know, being in the final group, first time ever on the PGA TOUR and I just wanted to go out there and hit solid, quality golf shots, and I really did that all day. I hit some great shots. I missed a couple of putts early, but I'm walking out of here patting myself on the back. Even though I didn't come out on top, I still sucked it up and I played with a lot of heart. So, I'm proud of myself. Q. Can you go over 9 and 10 they seemed to be the crucial holes. JASON BOHN: Yeah, 9, I hit probably the worst tee shot of the week. I probably lost it maybe 35 yards right of where I was looking, and I just came out of my golf swing and just hit a terrible shot. But I hit it in the hazard, I took a drop and I laid it up. I was trying to chase it up on the front, left corner of the green and came up short of the bunker. Hit a great pitch. There are good 5s and that was a great 5, actually. No. 10, I really played the hole very intelligently all week. I hit 2 iron every day off the tee, and you know today, I hit a 7 iron; I had like 168 to the hole. My caddie and I believed that the wind was coming off the right with a little bit of hurt and when I hit a 7 iron, I flushed it, hit it absolutely right where I was looking, and it flew probably 75 in the air, which I was a little jacked, a little pumped up after my bogey I don't want to say that word, a little upset after my bogey, I'll put it that way. But it bounced off the green, right where everybody walks off, the green is kind of growing funny against me, and I hit a poor chip. Q. So if 9 was a good 5, 10 was not a good 5? JASON BOHN: Exactly right. You don't want to take 5 from the middle of the fairway, especially on 10 with a 7 iron in your hand, but I hit a high quality second shot. I just hit it too good. Q. Can you talk about 18 and going for eagle and what your mindset was? JASON BOHN: Well, to be honest, I really didn't know, all I was watching was where Olin was, I wanted to see the leaderboard and what was leading and how far away I was from the lead. I never looked behind me to see if I had a two shot advantage over the third place, and I had to ask Billy Ray Brown, the commentator, what my position was and he told me I was two shots clear of Vaughn Taylor, and at that point I had no decision, just try to make eagle and make Olin play some more holes. I look back, I've got to laugh at it, because if I only had a one shot advantage over third place, I would definitely have laid the golf ball up and tried to hole it from 100 yards. But had I laid it up and in this situation, I would never have heard the end of it from friends and family at home; they would have ragged on me forever. I didn't care if I hit it in the water. I was trying to hit a hook off a downhill lie, difficult shot coming out of the rough, but I hit a pretty decent shot. I couldn't turn it over against that wind. Q. Was that the worst drive you've hit all week on that hole? JASON BOHN: No. Actually day one was the worst drive. I didn't even look for it day one, I hit it so far right, but I made bogey on the first day. I had to re tee. But yes, the wind was different, a little bit different today on 18, and it was more into us than it was kind of off the left, and so my caddie and I didn't think that I would be able to carry those bunkers all the way across. I was trying to hit it just left of the bunkers and maybe cut it a little bit and try to tumble it down that hill. I hit it solid and just never cut it, just rolled right through the fairway up on the hill. Q. When you get in a situation like you were on 18, where you need something miraculous to happen, do you ever draw on that million dollar hole in one? Do you ever do that, and did you by any chance do it today? JASON BOHN: I told Billy, my caddie, I said I need to hit a great I need to execute a great shot, but I also need a tremendous amount of luck. So, I mean, I don't know that you could draw from that because it's really potluck that the ball goes into in the hole. But I've had some great things happen to me in my life, and there was no doubt in my mind that I really thought could I make three on last hole from any lie. I just thought, I could chip this in from over there. I didn't have a great stance, standing in the bunker my ball was outside, but I honestly believed I could make it. Some good things have happened to me before, so I would not have been surprised if it went in. Q. Are you still collecting on that? JASON BOHN: I am. I'm collecting until 2012. Q. It looked like the putt on 15, did you think that was was that the one it looked like it was in all the way? JASON BOHN: Yeah, I was really close to pulling the Phil Mickelson jump on that one right there. I was ready to jump, I thought it was in all the way and at the last second, it just broke off to the right. And it had some pretty good pace to it. So I turned around and told my caddie, I said, "You would have saw me jump six feet right in the air if I hit that one." I hit a lot of good putts coming down the stretch, so I can't be disappointed. Q. The tee shot on 16 looked like it was going to be really good, it just kept rolling? JASON BOHN: Yeah, I think the greens just got a little bit baked at the end. You know, the whole day, I told myself to play smart, picked my pins to fire at until I got in a situation where I knew I was going to have to make some birdies coming in. You know, I had a good number to 16. I hit a great shot. It just took off and rolled to the back of the green. Q. The first time you've had the perspective of being in the final group and you have five guys going in, tied for the lead, a bunch of guys with a shot at it, those five, two up, three go down, is there any rhyme or reason for that beyond the obvious of some guys make shots and some don't on the final day? JASON BOHN: It's a funny game, this golf is. You know, I don't know. It's hard to tell what anybody is going to do. I think in all honesty, for me personally, I think it's easier to come from a couple of groups back than being in the final group, because I think even though we're all at kind of the same score, I still think that if you can get in and post a number, those guys have to look at it. And on this golf course, if you hit some poor shots, you're going to make some numbers. You know, I think that's exactly what Olin's thought was today. I'm sure he was trying to get in, post a good number and make the couple of groups behind him catch him. Q. It was only two days ago that you eagled on 18. Did you think about that at all when you lined up for that? JASON BOHN: Yeah, absolutely on the tee, I told Billy, an eagle, we get to play some more holes. I wanted to play more golf. The day I made eagle on that hole, the wind was completely different and I actually hit driver, 7 iron into the green. So I mean, the wind really dictates that hole. Q. What was your club selection this time? JASON BOHN: 2 iron. Q. What did you have today? I hope you didn't answer this already, I'm sorry, I came in late, what was it that you hit on the green? JASON BOHN: It's a 2 iron, like a rescue, hybrid type club. JOAN vT ALEXANDER: Let's go through your round, starting with your birdie on No. 2. JASON BOHN: My birdie on No. 2, that pin was tucked far right and I was just trying to hit it in the middle of the green, I kind of pulled it a little bit left. I probably had 80, maybe 90 feet I was putting just off the green for eagle and I hit a great lag putt to a couple of feet. JOAN vT ALEXANDER: No. 5, the par 4. JASON BOHN: No. 5, once again, I drove it perfect on that hole. I think I drove it great there all four days. I hit a little I was trying to hold a 6 iron against the wind in there, keep it below the hole and I think I made about maybe a 20 footer up and over a ridge, so one of the better putts I made all week. JOAN vT ALEXANDER: 7, the par 5. JASON BOHN: No. 7, just laid up to a great number. I hit a lob wedge in there from I think it was about 80 yards. Had probably six feet and made it. JOAN vT ALEXANDER: The bogey on 9. JASON BOHN: Was just a terrible tee shot out to the right in the hazard, took a drop, laid it up kind of short, left of the green it was a great bogey. Got it up and down for bogey. On 10, I hit a 2 iron off the tee, I hit 7 iron just too good, hit it through the wind and it skipped over the edge and hit a poor chip. Missed the putt. 14, I ate my peanut butter and jelly sandwich again on the 14th hole today, not to be a little superstitious, but hit a perfect tee shot and had a great yardage, hit an 8 iron that landed right where my caddie and I wanted it to land just below the ridge. It rolled up, I probably had six feet, so kudos to the peanut butter and jelly sandwich. 18, 2 iron I hit into 18. Q. What kind of jelly? JASON BOHN: Grape jelly. Yeah, extra crunchy peanut butter. Q. We covered this yesterday. JASON BOHN: (Laughter). Q. Did you have two today or just one? JASON BOHN: I had two. Q. What was the lie like on 18? I guess the reason I ask is that if you only needed a birdie instead of an eagle would you might have laid up? JASON BOHN: You know, it was a decent lie. If I just need a birdie, I probably would have laid it up because I've hit my wedges very well this week, and I think I could have gave myself a pretty good opportunity to make birdie. It was an iffy call. Like I said if I only had a one shot clear of third place, I probably wouldn't have hit it. I probably would have laid up and tried to hole it from 100 yards. Q. A tough shot then? JASON BOHN: Yeah, because the ball was so far below my feet and the wind is off the left, and I have to hit a big hook around the trees, so it was a difficult shot. Q. How impressed are you that a 46 year old, relatively short hitter wins this tournament, or any tournament, for that matter? JASON BOHN: It doesn't amaze me at all out here. I don't care how old you are; every guy that's out here can play. It's unbelievable. I don't think age anymore is such an issue. You know, I hope that I'm 46 years old out here playing, because I think the more experience you have, I think you can take it a long way. Olin has kind of helped me along over the last two years, he's kind of told me some secrets, what he believes in is writing thank you notes to tournament sponsors and he's told me ways that he thinks that players should handle themselves out here. I admire Olin a lot. I wanted to kick his butt today, but that didn't happen. I really admire him so, very happy for him and his family. Q. It seemed like everybody admires him; they call him the nicest guy and all that. How did you get to know him? JASON BOHN: I was kind of iffy on Olin at first. I didn't know how his personality would be but once you start to talk to the guy, I mean, he's very down to earth. He's very easy to talk to. I think it's kind of neat when a guy with that much experience will come out and talk to a rookie and kind of tell them, here is some of the things that might help you this year and for future years. So anybody that takes the time to do that, I take my hat off to them. I admire that very much. JOAN vT ALEXANDER: Thank you. FastScripts by ASAP Sports ... An Interview With: TIGER WOODS, finished T40 for $20,350
Q. Overall? TIGER WOODS: I'm done. (Laughing). I'm done. No, it was a frustrating last three days. I didn't have it, I didn't play particularly well, and consequently I was nowhere in contention.
Q. Was that first hole indicative of TIGER WOODS: It was a very easy shot and I hit it fat. I compounded my problem from there. So I just hit a bad shot at an absolute wrong time and I kept hitting bad shots after that. Q. Quickest double you've ever made? TIGER WOODS: No. I've made faster. Q. How disappointing is this, knowing this goes to your foundation, not to win? TIGER WOODS: Well, I haven't won it before. I've come close, but then again this is a great event. We have some great, great guys up atop of that board. People from Rhode Island here want Billy to do well. It will be exciting to see what happens, because there are a bunch of guys who have a chance. Anything can happen. Anybody who is 6 or 7 under par can win this tournament, so we'll see what happens. Q. A lot of the guys at top are not long hitters. TIGER WOODS: Fairways are running this week and there's really no rough out there, so any ball that lies in the fairway, it's getting down there and the greens are firming up so you have to be in the fairway. Even though there's no rough you can't play from the rough and expect to get the ball close. You have to hit the ball in the fairway and guys who are able to get the ball running can get the ball down there. You've got reasonable irons into the greens. If you've got anywhere between 7 iron on down, you can get pretty aggressive. I hit plenty of fairways. I just didn't hit any balls close from there and when I did hit it close, I didn't make a putt. So I just didn't really get anything to go in. Q. What happened at the first tee, you were cutting it pretty close? TIGER WOODS: My cart driver was taking some time. Every speed bump, he slowed down to an absolute stop and looked around, made sure everything was okay and then he�d kind of go over. We're telling him, hurry up, don't worry about it and he slows down every time. Q. What are you going to do between now and the Presidents Cup? TIGER WOODS: I'm going on vacation. I'm going on my boat, so I'm getting out of here. I've had a long summer, haven't taken any time off, so I'm really looking forward to this break. Q. Just a couple of off days or anything you can particularly work on? TIGER WOODS: No. You know what, to be honest with you I really don't care right now. I'm done. I've had a very long summer. I haven't taken hardly any days off this summer, so it will be nice to actually get some time off and away from the game and let my mind and body just kind of heal. Q. Can you talk about the gallery out there this weekend? TIGER WOODS: Absolutely incredible. They have been into it. The fans have come out and supported the event the last three years. We couldn't ask for a better crowd, a better atmosphere. It's always fun to play in front of people this enthusiastic. It makes you get people fired up out there. Q. Is the President�s Cup among the events where you feel the most pressure? TIGER WOODS: Probably, yeah. I mean, more so than any major championship, because if I blow a major, who cares; it's just me. If I miss that putt, I let down 11 other guys and a captain, and it's a much bigger deal when you let down teammates than when you do yourself. Q. What do you think of when you think back to (2003 President�s Cup), especially the last two holes, is there any image that jumps out at you? TIGER WOODS: I know that was probably one of the best, if not the best putt, I've ever made. With all of the circumstances, low light, you couldn't really see anything, you were there, you couldn't see much, downhill, downgrain, left to right, swale, 12 footer, with everything on the line and I knocked it in somehow. Q. Did you see some of the colors to the side; could you see blue, could you see red? TIGER WOODS: I saw everybody there and kept looking in the opposite direction just so I didn't have to it was a pressure putt as it is. You don't want to know all of your teammates are over there looking at you hoping you make the putt. You don't want to let them all down. Q. When you've been in a situation like that, individual play, is there ever a part of you that hopes the guy you're playing misses and was it different with the beg fella this time? TIGER WOODS: I really wanted Ernie to make that putt because we didn't want to win that way. We didn't think we should go in a playoff to begin with. So to have it three holes and then have low light like that, none of us on our team want to see Ernie miss that putt. That's obviously very rare when you get into team format but that was one of those times. Q. How many guys on your team do you think would have wanted to be in your position? TIGER WOODS: Probably not many. I didn't want to be there. (Laughter). Q. Was there ever a point or moment or moments during the course of the last couple of days where you thought things would come together for you? TIGER WOODS: No. No. Not once. (Laughing). I battled on the range, battled on the course and I did that for three straight days. So the answer to your question is no. I did hit it a little better on the range today and I went on the golf course feeling a little bit better, but then I go ahead and make a quick 6 on the first hole. FastScripts by ASAP Sports ... Quotes from: JOEY SINDELAR
Q. You had a great week can; you just talk about it? JOEY SINDELAR: It was, it was a lot of fun. It always leaves a bad taste when you falter on the last hole, but it was a fun week, not only my play, which I was very happy with. All portions showed up and did nicely. But I'm so happy for Seth Waugh and Deutsche Bank and this community. This has really become one of the wonderful, really, good, good tournaments, way above par, awesome. All I wanted my caddie to keep me posted was where Olin was and he was at 14 and I just couldn't get over that 10 hump. I couldn't do it, and I tried to be aggressive on 18, that's the one bad drive I hit today, and so what. You get away with stuff and you stub your toe a few times and it all comes out in the wash. Q. So a short birdie putt here, you were not thinking about going for it? JOEY SINDELAR: That was a par putt. I was in the hazard. That was a bogey for me on the last hole. I hit it in the hazard, just, and a foot either way I could have laid right up and had it, but so what. Next week we won't care. Just got ahead of it and leaned on it because I had to kill it to get over that trap, and I just hit my one stinker of the day and it went down the hazard, but I had a nice little par putt. These greens are tough. I'm sure you've heard the guys say that. They are slick and they can be hard to read. But most of all I just want to make sure you guys know, this is really a wonderful event. They have done a great job here and I look forward to next time. Quotes from: BILLY ANDRADE, finished T15 for $70,125 BILLY ANDRADE: I had a couple unfortunate things. I hit it through the fairway on 4 and I couldn't spin it to that left pin and hit it to the back of the green and chipped it down or putted it down to about five feet and I missed. Then on 6, we caught a wind switch with a wedge from the first cut of rough, another fairway I thought I hit. Very important to hit fairways versus being in the rough here, spinning the ball with some of these tough pins that they had today. I thought I hit a perfect shot. It came up short, the wind switched and I ended up making double, and that really put me in a big hole. And then to make matters worst next hole, I 3 putted from about ten feet. So it's very difficult when you're going that way, when you need to go the other way, when you see guys like Olin having his day. But you know what, I had a great time, I was there to screw it up, and I'll probably screw up again in the future. But, you know what, all you can do is give yourself opportunities and today wasn't my day. Today was Olin's day, and you know what I'll be back next week trying again.
Q. Did you lose it mentally after that tough start? BILLY ANDRADE: Well, I don't know if you lose it mentally, but things are not going as well as they had been going. I had not make a bogey in 54 holes and unfortunately I made a few mistakes there. Sometimes this game is cruel, and you can hit pretty good shots and end up not coming out the way you'd like it. You just have to, you know, just hang in there. If I putted a little better, especially on the back nine, I could have put a little charge in. But the putter wasn't as hot today as it's been in the last few days, and when that happens, you shoot the score I shot. Q. Did you talk to Brad at all? BILLY ANDRADE: I haven't. I talked to him last night but I haven't talked to him today. But I guess we tied, is the way I looked at it, so that's pretty cool. Q. Did you feel pressure at the start of the day knowing how many people were close to the top or near the top? BILLY ANDRADE: No. You know, I felt the same as I felt going into yesterday, I mean, there's a lot of guys close to the lead. I knew that it was going to be a tough day today. I think if anybody can shoot under a 70, that's playing pretty well. And typically, as you see around this golf course, early in the day, the greens are a little softer, and scores are better and as the day goes on with the swirling winds and the greens getting firm, it's tougher to score. And Olin's round of 67 is pretty impressive in the situation he in. And hats off to him, he played a great round of golf today and he deserves to win. -end-
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