WEETABIX WOMEN'S BRITISH OPEN CHAMPIONSHIP

August 10, 2002

Jennifer Rosales

LAURA NEAL: Great playing, Jenny. Your personal best, tied the women's course record here at Turnberry. Been playing well this week. Did you kind of expect a round like this at all or are you surprised.

JENNY ROSALES: I am really surprised, but I felt really good this week hitting my drives in the fairways where I want to be and hit as much green as I have to.

Q. Was that the secret today? Fairways and greens?

JENNY ROSALES: Actually, yes what I can today, I tried to make some putts which I did.

Q. Were you in any bunkers at all?

JENNY ROSALES: Today, no. Yesterday I did on the first hole, but that's about it for three days. That was my first goal, avoid bunkers (laughter) I did pretty good so far.

Q. Do you like this type of course?

JENNY ROSALES: Actually, yeah. You got to hit a lot of shots. You have got to have a lot of shots here and which is I really like especially yesterday morning the course played so tough on the front side and I mean, it just played so long I used my 3-wood on the par 3s. A lot of woods there.

Q. Are you nervous at all?

JENNY ROSALES: Actually no, I am more excited. Not nervous, though. I am looking forward and get experience tomorrow and we'll see what happens.

Q. How long have you lived in the States?

JENNY ROSALES: Probably five years now. But I go home during the holidays.

Q. Who introduced you to the game?

JENNY ROSALES: My dad used to play. I start when I was 12 and my brother got me into it too.

Q. Have you been to Britain before?

JENNY ROSALES: Was here last year, but that's it. My second time.

Q. How quickly was it before you became good enough to beat your brother?

JENNY ROSALES: Took me a while, actually. Because he's a really good player too. And it took me a while.

Q. Who were your mentors or heroes growing up?

JENNY ROSALES: Actually my hero is my brother. He taught me a lot. Gerald. He played in the Asian Tour.

Q. Is he caddying for you this weekend?

JENNY ROSALES: No. He caddied for me in the Open. Three weeks he caddied for me.

Q. How is he doing?

JENNY ROSALES: I haven't talked to him for a while.

Q. You can't check his results on the Asian Tour Web site?

JENNY ROSALES: Right now they are off for two months. I don't know when they are going to start, probably sometime this week or next week.

Q. You've never led a tournament before. How will you handle it tomorrow?

JENNY ROSALES: I just got to, I guess, focus and talk to my caddie more. And just got to play and see what happens.

Q. Does women's golf get a lot of attention in the Philippines?

JENNY ROSALES: Probably for right now it will be. But yeah, there has been a lot of -- golf is getting big in the Philippines now, so, if I do well this week, you never know. (Laughs).

Q. Do they field a team for the World Amateur and events like that?

JENNY ROSALES: Yeah, they do that every year, every two years.

Q. Did you compete on the team?

JENNY ROSALES: I played the one in '96 and '98. I played it twice.

Q. You won the NCAA while at USC, right?

JENNY ROSALES: Yeah, I won my freshman year. I didn't graduate, yeah, I stopped my junior year and turned pro.

Q. What did you study?

JENNY ROSALES: Went to USC. I was studying -- didn't have the time to declare my major. I left before I did. (Laughs). There you go, golf.

LAURA NEAL: Are there any other men pros from the Philippines that have won a tournament or --

JENNY ROSALES: Yeah, in Asia, yeah. But I think.

LAURA NEAL: Not on the PGA TOUR?

JENNY ROSALES: No.

Q. How long are you off the tee?

JENNY ROSALES: People ask me that but I can't answer that. Probably average, you mean or --

Q. Like if you hit it out of your socks, how far?

JENNY ROSALES: The wind is helping. (Laughs). Probably I could hit it -- hold on. How far is the last hole? I was 100 yards away. 275, 280, the last hole, yeah, about. Little old me, yeah. I could kill the ball once in a while.

LAURA NEAL: Great job. Have a good night tomorrow. We'll see you tomorrow.

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