WGC AMERICAN EXPRESS CHAMPIONSHIP

November 10, 2000

Lee Westwood

LEE WESTWOOD: No, it's tricky out there. The wind's obviously stronger today, which makes a big difference on this course. It seems to be going pretty well, so there's obviously opportunities out there.

LEE WESTWOOD: Yeah, I think you'll always take level par around here. I wasn't particularly fortunate today. I had a few hard breaks out there, and it could quite easily have been 68. So Valderrama's like that. It's a very fine line between sometimes being on the edge of the green and sometimes being in the green-side bunker down the tree. That's just how it is.

LEE WESTWOOD: No. I'll have to try something different today.

LEE WESTWOOD: Yeah, yeah, probably.

LEE WESTWOOD: Yeah, he must have played well. I saw, I think he holed the second shot there on the 2nd, and a hole-in-one to the 12th. So that can happen with these hole-in-ones. Maybe we'll get a drink out of him this time, for last week's.

LEE WESTWOOD: Yeah. It doesn't particularly turn me on too much. If I won it, then I'd be delighted. But if I don't win it ... (Inaudible.) It wasn't a priority at the start of the year. I have not changed my priorities throughout the year.

LEE WESTWOOD: It just depends. You know, Nick's obviously playing very well, as are a lot of other players in the field. But then again, this course can really get up and by you. Although Nick's at 10-under now, Mark Calcavecchia is 6-under coming down the last. As my caddie just said to me, he said, "That could quite well be leading at the end of the day." And, again, if Nick carries on the way he's playing, then 14-, 15-under could be leading it in the day. So there's a long way to go, and a lot of things could change.

LEE WESTWOOD: I hit driver wedge to about 15 here at the 2nd, 3-putted. I hit driver 3-wood on to the 4th to about 35 feet; 3-putted.

LEE WESTWOOD: 264. I hit driver wedge, pitched on the edge of the green, knocked into the green-side trap, behind the tree on the 5th. Obviously, knackered that. Made a good turn at the next. Hit a 7-iron to about 8 feet; made that. Putt pin-high, two on the 7th. Played a poorish bunker shot, a great lie, 2-putted from that for 8 feet. Should have really birdied that. Missed from 8 feet on 8. Driver 5-iron to 3 feet on 9; made that. Driver, driver, then pitched to about 8 feet on 11. Then 4-iron right of the green on 12. I didn't get up-and-down. Missed from 3 feet on 14. 3-putted 15 from about 20 feet. Driver, 6-iron just off the back edge, just through the back edge at 17. Chipped back to about 10 feet; made that.

LEE WESTWOOD: I have no idea. I've not really thought about it.

LEE WESTWOOD: Yeah, riveting. There's still everything to play for, but it would have been nice to have been a few shots better off. Obviously, Monty's played well today, and played his way back into it a little bit. You can't really count anybody out. Michael Campbell's played okay.

LEE WESTWOOD: (Inaudible.) I think level par is about as good as it's going to be.

LEE WESTWOOD: No, I don't.

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