THE HONDA CLASSIC

March 9, 2001

Ty Tryon

TY TRYON: First of all, I'm incredibly happy right now and just -- if I didn't finish so bad, I would probably be crazy right now, but I just finished really bad. So that puts a little damper on my happiness.

TY TRYON: Weekend? Playing golf. Hanging out. Playing golf.

TY TRYON: I was just really happy the round was over. I was just ready for it to get in the hole.

TY TRYON: I knew I was 9-under, but I didn't know I was second place. I was just looking to see the leaders. My name wasn't even up there. They kind of put mine with "others."

TY TRYON: Really well. I had ten hours of sleep.

TY TRYON: Yeah.

TY TRYON: Yeah, definitely. Because I can just go out and -- I mean, I've got the hard part done, I think. I can just go and play as good as I can, really.

TY TRYON: I want to go as low as I possibly can and I want to have a good time and enjoy it. This is a lifetime experience. The next few weeks, I'm going to be playing some Junior tournaments and stuff like that. So I just want to remember I've been here and just enjoy the memory.

TY TRYON: I don't think so. Maybe one more. I'm not really sure. I don't think so.

TY TRYON: Jeremy Anderson actually left me a note in my locker, said like great job, stuff like that, keep it up, which is just I tried to do and I was doing for a while.

TY TRYON: Probably signing autographs. It's so weird. And like turning people down, I feel like so bad.

TY TRYON: No. Well, maybe before as a Junior tournament as a little kid.

TY TRYON: At the turn.

TY TRYON: Yeah, I guess -- I was signing at the turn.

TY TRYON: Yeah, balls. And I had like my ball in my pocket and I'm like, "I need my ball."

TY TRYON: Five.

TY TRYON: Yeah. The back nine, the way I played, I needed those balls.

TY TRYON: Yeah, I did. My caddy tried to really just get me back level-headed, and I made a real good putt from off the fringe on 11. And then 12, I made a good putt about 15, 20 feet on that par 5 and I chipped up there about a foot behind the green. I had a 2-iron over the green and so I was really -- I mean, I was pumped. I was just really doing great. And on No. -- it was 14, the par 3, I hit 8-iron like 190 but I heard Adam Scott hit 9-iron. But I flew over the green back there. It was just like six inches high and my ball was kind of an inch when I hit it and that kind of set off the bogey trend.

TY TRYON: Totally up and down. At the end of the front nine, I actually missed some greens and I got some really -- like No. 18, I hit my drive in the left bunker and my second shot in the hazard over there. I like hit up in the fringe and rolled in the hazard and hit a bunker shot like out of the hazard three feet and made par.

TY TRYON: All mud. I hit like a bunker shot out of the mud.

TY TRYON: Actually I jumped in there, running in there, and I almost sunk; my foot went down.

TY TRYON: That was about 25 feet from off the fringe. I had to putt from like ten feet of fringe.

TY TRYON: 7, yeah, probably seven feet. Yeah, because I played 10 first.

TY TRYON: It just feels great -- sponsor exemptions, like, "What's that kid doing here or something," and I haven't really felt that this week from the players. And making the cut is just -- I feel like I've been on a long road to get here.

TY TRYON: Oh, man, it's just -- kind of at the right place at the right time. I just needed to play a good round. That's what I needed to. I mean, Tiger has done incredible things. This is just one thing he hasn't done. I just feel really good about this.

TY TRYON: William Augustus Tryon, IV. But I've always been called Ty since I was born. That other name is a little, I don't know -- I don't like it.

TY TRYON: Augustus.