Q. You are planning to go on the Senior Tour?
JAY HAAS: Yes. When the time comes, I will be there.
People say, "I bet you can't wait for the Senior Tour." I think I'll do well out there. I feel good about my game right now, but who knows what's going to happen in a year and a half. If I stay healthy, I think I'll be successful there. Most of the guys who have done well on the Senior Tour have been competitive out here when they left this tour.
But I can't think, you know, I need to work on this because this is what I'm going to have to do in a year and a half. These guys are so good out here that I have to use all of my experience and tricks up my sleeve. I feel like the 38-year-old junk ball pitcher who can't throw it over 80 but still gets people out.
I just have to be -- I have to think now, for me. But again, I want to play out there, for sure.
Q. That's a good thing, isn't it, to kind of keep you going and playing at your best?
JAY HAAS: It has been for me. It has been. If all I was thinking about was two years down the road, a year and a half down the road, I probably would be playing 15 events and I would probably end up with 23, 24 events this year, which is not as many as I used to play, but still a few for some of the best players.
I enjoy playing. I enjoyed being out here and that's all I do. I don't have any -- I don't have any golf course building business or anything like that. So I'm off half the year. It's pretty easy job, really.
Birdies were at No. 3. I hit a 5-iron to about three feet.
6 was really what kind of turned my round to the good or kept it going. I hit a 6-iron out of the fairway bunker, had a terrible lie in a fairway bunker hit it to, oh, probably 18 feet and made that putt.
7, I hit a sand wedge to about 15 feet. Made that.
10, I hit a 7-iron just back edge 25 feet and I made that one.
12, I hit a sand wedge to about 15 feet.
Then I bogeyed 15, missed about a 6-foot putt, 7-foot putt there.
16, I hit a real nice pitch with a sand wedge to about eight feet and made that.
Q. What happened on 15?
JAY HAAS: 15, I always think that's the toughest hole out here. I hit a good drive, but just misjudged the second shot and hit it out. I hit a good chip but just missed the putt.
I think day-in, day-out you usually get a cross-wind of some sort. It's a hard fairway to hit, of perched up in the air green. I think it's a pretty hard hole under the circumstances.
Q. How low this week, do you suppose, based on what you've seen?
JAY HAAS: Everybody seems like they go about five shots better than I think a lot of times. Somebody will probably shoot 7-under today, but you can't quite go by that. But I would think 18, 19. Or more, right.
If there's no rain, I think anybody would take 20 right now. That sounds unbelievable -- I'll take 20, sure you would. (Laughs).
I just don't think it's quite as easy as it has been in the past. There's a little bit of rough. They have had some rain here in the last couple of weeks, so a little bit of rough up. So it's not just the easy one that they have had here in the past. And the greens being a little firmer, I think that makes a difference, too.
JOEL SCHUCHMANN: Thank you very much.
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