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U.S. WOMEN'S OPEN CHAMPIONSHIP


July 4, 2002


Karrie Webb


HUTCHINSON, KANSAS

KARRIE WEBB: Actually I'm still pretty shocked today because of the way I hit it today. So I really just could not get into a rhythm. After the first few holes, I really just couldn't get into the flow of the course. I felt like I had not even been on the course, even though I felt like I couldn't be better prepared for the tournament. I felt great going into today. I felt I had as good a chance as anyone.

Q. On the eighth green, you threw your club down?

KARRIE WEBB: I think I did that a couple of times.

Q. What was going through your mind?

KARRIE WEBB: What I just told you. I'm upset with how things went today. I really didn't expect it.

Q. What happened that?

KARRIE WEBB: I hit it in the front bunker and hit it over the back end of the bushes. I just couldn't see. That was a pretty deep bunker; I couldn't see anything.

Q. What did you hit?

KARRIE WEBB: I hit a fat 8-iron.

Q. Did any of the hoopla seem to throw you a bit?

KARRIE WEBB: You know, I'm always extremely nervous on the first tee of the U.S. Open, and I was today. You know, I think it's tough, playing a par 3 as a first hole, especially under the circumstances. And I was in between clubs, as well.

I think if I looked back -- and you don't know how things would have turned out. But if I would have made the 3- or 4-footer for par on the first, maybe it would have been better, but I don't know if it just wasn't meant to go well today.

Q. Was there a point where you felt, hey, maybe I'm turning it around?

KARRIE WEBB: When I birdied 17 and I hit two pretty good shots into 18, and even then two barely decent shots. But I just four holes in a row where I really didn't even touch the face of the golf course.

Q. Any problems with distance control today?

KARRIE WEBB: No. I just wasn't hitting it very straight. In practice, I had not even come close to hitting it in the rough, and I was in it so many times today it was ridiculous.

Q. The amount of pressure, did that throw you off, seems like that would be out of character for you.

KARRIE WEBB: It didn't really throw me off.

Q. (Inaudible)?

KARRIE WEBB: I don't know, I like hearing from I'm Australia.

Q. When you said you were in between clubs, which clubs?

KARRIE WEBB: I was in between an 8 and a 9 ( -iron). As it turned out, I probably could have comfortably hit a 9, but it's hard to say that you are going to stand up there and hit a hard 9 the first thing of the day; I would rather hit a hard driver.

Q. Plan for tomorrow?

KARRIE WEBB: I don't know. Have to try to make the cut, I think.

Q. Having won recently, does anything change?

KARRIE WEBB: Well, obviously things changed. I don't know what it was. If I did, I wouldn't have hit so many off the planet today. But I'm going to go out to the range -- I don't want to be there too long because I have to tee off soon. (Laughter.) Hopefully I can work a few things out and shoot a few under tomorrow and at least play on the weekend.

Q. Did you talk at all with your caddie or did he notice anything?

KARRIE WEBB: I think he was just as amiss as I was. I asked him on the eighth hole if he saw anything and the only thing he could see was I was not swinging at it very aggressively, just I didn't know where it was going; and that happens when you don't know what part of the golf course you're going to hit it on.

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