U.S. SENIOR OPEN CHAMPIONSHIP

June 29, 2001

Gil Morgan

GIL MORGAN: Well, I think today I played, from my standpoint, I played a lot more consistently than I did yesterday. I drove the ball a little better. I didn't drive it very far at times, but it seemed like I got the ball in play a lot more. Obviously, the conditions today were a lot better than yesterday with the wind we had yesterday afternoon, it made it a lot probably more difficult to control your golf ball. But today it looked like a good opportunity to really try to score as well as you could. And I really didn't take advantage of that too well. I only made two birdies and two bogeys. But at the same time I played pretty consistently tee to green most of the time. I hit a couple of foul balls and was able to get away with at least bogeys at those two holes. I had a few opportunities. I didn't really get the ball as close to the hole as I'd like. I'd still think the pin placements were -- should we dock him? 25 percent of his salary today. I really didn't have a chance to get the ball or at least I didn't get the ball as close to the hole as I'd like to, and therefore the puts were still a little bit too far away to have very good chances to make birdies. I don't know, it seemed like the greens situations maybe from where I played from, there for a while I had a hard time getting the ball to the hole. Maybe they looked faster than they were. Overall the greens were probably a little bit softer at times than they were yesterday, but they still were a little bouncy. The pin placements were very good. I thought they were very tough on a lot of the holes. They still seem to like the corners of these greens really well. Other than that, I think our whole group played pretty well. That kind of kept us going. Kite shot 70. He kind of had an up and down round. Bob Gilder shot I think 69. We all played fairly decent at the end point at least. That's about all I know.

GIL MORGAN: You're going to make it easy.

GIL MORGAN: I can't remember what holes they were. Let's see, maybe 10 -- maybe the 4th hole or something like that. 4th hole I had a putt that if I just hit it a little bit harder, it would have gone right in the middle it looked like. I left a couple of them short. Other than that I hit some good putts, but they didn't have quite the right speed on them. So I got beat up from that. I kind of let the second par-5, the par-5 on the front get away from me. I hit a bad second shot and put it in the rough where I had a tough deal. That was a hole that I thought you might be able to have a good chance to get close to the green and chip up there and make a birdie. All in all I think the morning round was a situation where, with the way the conditions were, it might have been more receptive to lower scores than what I saw out there today. I don't know exactly why. The pin placements were tough. But at least I kept it out of the rough most of the time. I had a couple that I didn't like, and was able to salvage a couple when I missed them. But other than that, I don't know.

GIL MORGAN: Well, it's something that can happen at any time. When I was at the PGA a few weeks ago, I kind of hurt it the day before a little bit. But I got up in the morning, it felt pretty good. I got out there, I hit some wedges and 9-irons, and it felt all right. I tried to hit a 6-iron and all of a sudden it just went. It's kind of scary. It can go at any point in time and I wouldn't be able to participate. That's one of the things that's kind of bothering me right here. The uncertainty of what's happening with that situation right now. It seems like I got up this morning and it felt pretty good. And then I got on the range when I started hitting balls and it felt a little funny. So I kind of eased into it. About the second hole I hit a couple of shots and it didn't feel just right. But I kept going, and it seemed to calm down a little bit. I don't know. I just have to play it by ear, I guess.

GIL MORGAN: Yeah. Kind of like a support belt right now. I think I need stays, steel.

GIL MORGAN: I don't know, for some reason I just don't take very many practice swings. Every once in a while in certain situations, certain shot types, I'm trying to rehearse some sort of angle that I'm trying to create with the shot. I'll take a practice swing or two. But in chipping I do a lot. But just normal play I don't take too many practice swings really.

GIL MORGAN: Thank you.