WGC NEC INVITATIONAL

August 23, 2001

David Toms

DAVID TOMS: I played good, solid golf today. Early in the round, I struggled a little bit off the tee. I guess I missed three fairways in the front, but I was able to save par on those holes. On the back side I drove it great. I just couldn't get the irons close to the hole. I wasn't able to really make any birdies and I made a mistake from the fairway on 16. I hit my wedge over the green trying to be too aggressive and got in the bunker and didn't get up-and-down.

DAVID TOMS: It's not hard. When you are playing good golf, you look forward to the rounds. I got out there and hit a good tee shot right off the bat. Set me up, made birdie. Hit it real close. Hit it two feet on the first hole. Made birdie; so that got me off to a pretty good start.

DAVID TOMS: Yeah, but, you know, I am tired. I'll get to rest plenty in the next couple weeks. I'm not playing at all. This week I just want to go ahead and continue to play good golf and worry about being tired later.

DAVID TOMS: There's a lot of people out there cheering for me and "saying nice going last week" and obviously a lot of people watched the golf tournament last week, and I'm just glad our sport is becoming more popular.