THE HONDA CLASSIC

March 8, 2001

Ty Tryon

TY TRYON: Well, first of all, I'm just incredibly happy to be here, just to play a PGA tournament, and I just had a great time out there. I really just enjoyed it. Playing well is definitely a plus, but it was awesome. I had a lot of fun.

TY TRYON: I was playing pretty well in the practice rounds and hitting pretty well. I mean, I really had no idea, to tell you the truth. I didn't know how the course was going to be, during the tournament how I was going to feel and all. I tried to play my own game. I tried to take out the PGA part of the tournament and play it like a normal golf course and that helped.

TY TRYON: I was pretty nervous. I probably hit a 2-iron, but I just felt like hitting driver. Because it was my first pro tournament, I just wanted to rip a driver down there.

TY TRYON: I know it sounds weird. I really didn't even know and I looked and it was like, "Gees, that's pretty awesome."

TY TRYON: My goal is just to get a lot of experience. I really just want to make -- that was my goal coming in today. Now, do as good as I can, I guess. I birdied 4, the p-a-r 5. I hit it close -- I made actually a 30-footer on 4. That was pretty good.

TY TRYON: Sand wedge. Little pitch shot. Just drained it.

TY TRYON: 5, I hit 6-iron about six or seven feet and I made a birdie there. 8, I hit a really good 6-iron. It was a little down wind, it was like 215 and it went over the green, the edge of the green and right over the pin and I chipped it about five feet and I missed it. No. 9, I hit a really solid drive and I hit in the front bunker with a 3-iron, got up -and-down. 10, I hit a drive down the left-hand side of the bunker left. Hit a really good bunker shot out. 9-iron about 25 feet and 3-putted. 14, I hit a driver down the left side into the hill, kind of. Hit 3-wood on the front of the green and got it up-and-down. 16, I hit a pretty solid drive on the left side. Caught the bunker. Pulled out a 3-iron from the front bunker. Hit a really good shot and it plugged the lip of the bunker; hit the green and bounced back. Hit a bunker shot rolled over the edge of the green and I made about a 15-footer. 17, I hit a 9-iron and hit it about three feet for birdie. 18, I hit 2-iron and 7-iron back to 15, 20 feet and made it.

TY TRYON: Definitely. I mean, I kind of felt a little more pumped up. The last hole I had 188 to the pin. I hit 2-iron off the tee and I hit 7-iron right there. It was a little downwind still, but that's not my normal yardage.

TY TRYON: Probably making up schoolwork for all the days I missed.

TY TRYON: Tenth.

TY TRYON: Yes.

TY TRYON: Yeah.

TY TRYON: I got fourth I think. I shot 72-67. I played well. The scores were pretty low. Our team -- we lost to two other schools down in Bradenton.

TY TRYON: Oh, yeah. Going back is going to be even more mind-boggling.

TY TRYON: I don't know. We'll see.

TY TRYON: I just need to keep working on everything, just getting better and hitting straighter off the tee. Getting longer off the tee. Better my irons. My putting -- putting is a lot tougher out here. You can make some putts, but the greens are ten times faster than the greens I play. I walked some long putts quite a ways by; so I need to work on that.