JOHNNIE WALKER WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP

December 18, 1993

Larry Mize

LARRY MIZE: I am really not. I played well, obviously had a really good front nine. The back nine definitely played tougher today, I thought. You are playing 10, 11, 12, you get 14, 15, with the wind in your face out on the left, which is a very tough wind and, you know, I made a few mistakes out there, but all and all I am real pleased with a 68 and you know, it is-- too much good happened for me for me to be upset so I am real pleased with the rounds.

LARRY MIZE: There is like wooden sticks with a fence barbed wire fence type and it was-- part of the ball was inbounds. What you do you take a rope and we took a TV cable and run it along the inside of the post and if any of the ball is touching that thing, it is in. That is where it was. It was in between it. All I can do was a couple of two feet on my back stroke and punch it out the best I could.

LARRY MIZE: Real good break. I was happy to make 5 on the hole, and you know, I probably had a good break on 18. I didn't -- I hit another tee shot; didn't really stay with it and it was, you know, close to going probably out of bounds on 18 but I got a good break there and it stayed in. So few bad swings out there, but all and all, I was pleased.

LARRY MIZE: I have to think for a second. I feel like I putted as well. I made more putts yesterday, you know, today as I said, I knocked a lot of shots close; I made-- I was pretty close, 2 tap-ins on 4 and 6; couple of short putts on 2 and a just a little longer on 3, but I still felt good with the putter, but I didn't putt as well as yesterday. You can't count on putting rounds like yesterday all the time.

LARRY MIZE: You know, I don't know. You know, you par the first hole, extremely difficult hole. I just hit some good shots, good 6-iron put me in perfect position underneath the hole on 2, good 8-iron, and couple of shots just stuck it up there close, so I don't know really know what to say but I had good shots; gave myself a couple of tap-ins and easy birdie shots.

LARRY MIZE: I am expecting another difficult day. It is a tough golf course out there and I am just looking forward to it and expecting I have got to go out there and play awfully well. There is a lot of golf left. I am looking forward to tomorrow.

LARRY MIZE: I can't remember. I want to say we might have but I am not sure. We played together at the Scottish last year or not? I am not sure.

LARRY MIZE: Am I surprised where I am?

LARRY MIZE: I guess it is like yesterday. Yes and no. I mean, I came here thinking I could win and I came here thinking I could be in contention and have a chance to win and could win and obviously that is yet to be seen, but you know, I didn't expect it. So I mean-- I think that I am somewhat surprised and not totally surprised maybe that is the best way to put it.

LARRY MIZE: Probably 2, three feet - a lot. Yeah, I pulled the right club. Actually my caddy club talked me into a 4 rather than a 5. It was the right club and I just didn't really commit to it enough. I backed off of it a little too much; got it up in the wind, so it was another fortunate break that it cleared and made a good par there. 15 was playing extremely difficult in my mind today, so, yeah, it wasn't -- it might have been four, five feet over, yeah but it wasn't a lot over the wall.

LARRY MIZE: I just-- he got a tough break there on 15. I mean, to me, there is no drop circle; then a hazard line is way down there where he had to drop in the gunch. I think the hazard line should be a little higher on the 15th hole. So I think that was a tough break. I don't really look at it as a collapse. The conditions are tough and a few bad shots is real easy for that to happen. I think it is more the conditions of today rather than anything. It doesn't take a whole lot for things to go haywire. That bad break right there with the triple bogey, that 15th hole was extremely weird. The wind just doesn't push the ball from left to right as much as you think it would. I have seen that all week with Ernie Els and myself and Steve today, so you know, Steve is a good player, just one of those things.

LARRY MIZE: I am not really sure. You know, he has played here all three years and the other two years it was a drop circle there. I am sure he is a little puzzled by that. He is just trying to get an idea. The official was just talking. He was waiting to see if there was anything that was going to come; what they were going to decide.

LARRY MIZE: Thanks a lot.