ENERGIZER SENIOR TOUR CHAMPIONSHIP

November 6, 1998

Gil Morgan

GIL MORGAN: You mean I was out?

GIL MORGAN: Yeah, I did pick up a little bit of ground, I guess. Yesterday I was -- what, I was four shots back. Now I'm what, two shots back?

GIL MORGAN: I didn't pick up much. I didn't realize he got in at 7. I should have known it. I'll play harder -- maybe I'll play harder tomorrow. I think it was very similar days, overall, weatherwise. It might have been a little bit warmer today, overall. But the breeze was still a factor. Golf course is still -- still kind of tough. I think if you do the right things, you know, get the ball in the right spot and not get it too out of kilter that it's a golf course where you can play pretty well most of the time. But as you can see by maybe what Hale did today a little bit, that some days it's real receptive. And if you're not in the right spot, you get beat up a little bit. So two days left to go. I think I've still got a chance to do well. It depends on what happens. But I think I'm in a fairly decent position at this point in time, considering how, you know, all the bogeys and all the mistakes I made. If I can eliminate that and go forward here, I feel like I've got a good chance.

GIL MORGAN: Bogeyed the 2nd hole. And then birdied the par 5. I hit a 4-wood on the green and 2-putted from the back fringe.

GIL MORGAN: Oh, it was about 45 feet, I guess.

GIL MORGAN: I hit the trees. I turned around the corner and it hit the trees and dropped off in the fairway. I hit a pretty good 3-iron. I couldn't really see it coming down. But my caddy said it hit kind of on the edge of the bunker. It was kind of a low trajectory shot, and bounced it along and missed the putt by 12 feet. And I turned around and put it in on front of the green at 5, and 3-putted from about, oh, 60 feet, I guess. Parred the rest of the round until I got to 11, and I hit a driver. And then a 6-iron about 18 feet behind the hole and made that. Parred 12. 13, I hit a driver, 3-wood pitching wedge to about an inch, half inch, and made that. I had to look at it both times. And then the next hole I hit a driver, 6-iron, and made about a 20-footer for a birdie there and parred. There's not much to it.

GIL MORGAN: It's a little bit anti-climatic coming in here, since I had a chance to win last week and didn't do it, kind of took away any steam that I had, to some degree, to -- you know, if I could have won both of these tournaments, it could have been great. It might have been a consideration for Player Of The Year. But since I messed up last week, I had a hard time kind of staying really focused this week, obviously, trying to play well. But I didn't have the same -- being as it would, if I'd won last week.

GIL MORGAN: I think there's an outside chance. But he's got all of the statistical categories lined up: Money -- landslide -- I don't know, maybe, outside. Outside, outside, outside. Triple outside.

GIL MORGAN: I'm going to have to bring a box of Kleenex, I guess, just to keep the tears. But, I don't know, I thought it might have been -- I thought it might have been a chance there for awhile. I had a couple chances coming down the stretch to make a birdie, but I just didn't. So he'll have to struggle along without me, I guess.

GIL MORGAN: Hopefully the weather will get better the next couple of days so we might have a chance to shoot a little lower. But with the pressure, I don't think it's going to get a lot lower. I think it can get maybe to double digits maybe, but it just kind of depends.

GIL MORGAN: I doubt it. But at least it will be nicer to play. Everybody will like it a lot better.

GIL MORGAN: Thank you.