SENIOR PGA CHAMPIONSHIP

June 4, 2003

Jay Sigel

JAY SIGEL: Yeah, in that I can sleep at home. There are only a couple of us, so I think that's the biggest advantage. And I think if, you know, I happen to play well that I will get an added plus from all my friends who will be interested in cheering me on. I think that will be a huge lift.

JAY SIGEL: Yeah, I mean, Jim Thorpe's caddy came up to me yesterday and he said -- he said, well, how do you play such and such a hole. I said, well, you drive it in the fairway. Well, what club? I said it depends -- anyway, no, I mean, 18 he asked me about, but yes, questions -- I have gotten a few questions, how do you -- you know, however, it's playing so long -- there aren't going to be too many 3-woods off the tees, so I think the course is set up very well and I think the conditioning is incredibly good which is what I expected. It has been wonderful for the last couple of years.

JAY SIGEL: Yes. I do think that that's a distinct possibility, however, you asked how many times I have played here under this -- maybe three times.

JAY SIGEL: Oh. Well, I have been a member since I believe '66. However, the golf course wasn't like this. I have played the golf course, as we know it today, about three times. How much change has there been? A lot. I think it is a shot and a half harder than it's been. Some of the characteristics couldn't be changed, you know, there are places that you don't want to be, you don't want to be on the short side a lot of times. If the pin is left, you knock it left, you are absolutely dead. But then again, this weather is going to change that. It may not be as dead because the greens maybe a little bit softer and the pitching and chipping might be a bit easier.

JAY SIGEL: Most of the differences are the greens. Aronimink embarked on a "well, let's uncover the greens and find out what we have here." And I think that took place three years ago. Tom Rozmus was instrumental in that. He's one of our greens committee folks. To his credit and to their credit, they had undertaken this task which was fantabulous (sic). We all got excited as we saw it. It was done in pieces, meaning as the agronomy staff maintains a golf course, they cut the greens up to the edge and there's a little edge left every time and the greens grow in on the sides. Over the years, I don't know, I would guesstimate, in spots these greens came in 15, twelve feet?

JAY SIGEL: The greens are not completely circular so in some areas they were able to cut back a section for a corner that I have never seen. I am not making any excuse, it is just a fact. So that's what I am speaking about, the distance is similar, bunkering is a little bit different. You still got to drive it 270 off the tee straight and have a mid- to long-iron into these greens. So that hasn't changed that much. The centers of the greens are still there and the centers of the tees are still there, but the greens are very different and of course, the runoffs from these greens, which I think is spectacular, is quite a bit different.

JAY SIGEL: I thought Heartfelt was about as good as it got. I guess we got 130,000 that week. The Playoff and my daughter as assistant tournament director and having the possibility of presenting me with a trophy, how could it possibly be any better. Well, this could be better. I have arrange for my daughter to be here, so while she couldn't necessarily present me anything, it would be nice that my family is around. I am at home. My friends are here. That would top it.

JAY SIGEL: Jennifer.

JAY SIGEL: It's unbelievable.

JAY SIGEL: Yes, the community, the world, the fact that Aronimink is sharing this is really special. I knew what we had from the beginning in that this was someplace very special, but it needed, let's call it a facelift, if you will, to be what it could be. Now I am very proud of it. I am very disappointed in the weather. This golf course will be unbelievably difficult. It was firm and fast. That's the way Ross intended it. I don't know how it's going to play other than yesterday it played so long I couldn't believe it. Never seen it like that. Cool, damp, wet. Now it's going to play even longer certainly the first day or so.

JAY SIGEL: Yeah, I would say two to three. It takes me five or six minutes to get here - pretty nice.

JAY SIGEL: Thanks very much.