DUDLEY HART: Coming in on 7, I made about, a probably 25-footer from behind the hole, really fast putt. The guys I was playing with were laughing, looked like it was going to stop three times, and it kept inching and inching. It was in a bad spot. On 8, I made probably about a 18-footer, and then No. 9, I made probably about a 35-footer.
Q. (Inaudible.)
DUDLEY HART: No, someone else asked me, and I'm glad to be done. It's a long day, playing 18 holes on this golf course, and I don't want to play 19 or 20. 18 is fine. If I had to keep going, I would have to go back to No. 10. And I'd just as soon worry about that hole tomorrow again.
Q. (Inaudible.)
DUDLEY HART: Well, that's not a really good way to look at it. You just kind of try to roll with the punches and go out there and just play the best you can on every hole, and sure, I could say if I had hit those 3-putts on the last three holes over again, also, would I make all three of them? And obviously, none of them were very easy putts. And one of them was very 3-puttable -- can I say it like that, is that right? It didn't sound right when I said that. And you can always look at it that way. Sometimes you're like, If I hit a good 3-wood off the tee, and didn't plug it in the bunker, if you had to do it all over again, 1-under is a pretty solid round and I'm not going to complain.
Q. (Inaudible.)
DUDLEY HART: I was pretty comfortable with it. There's putts that get scary. Like I said, the greens -- some of the slopes are very subtle, and as fast as the greens are, you have to really watch your pace. And I was glad that I didn't have any big, long uphill putts like some of the guys did. At least early on, I tried to watch their speeds on some putts; that can help you see how the ball is reacting, watch them hit it and how the ball rolls out. I tried to pay attention to that a little bit. But the pace is so huge on these greens, you don't want to be ripping it 8 feet by, and trying to make it coming back.
Q. (Inaudible.)
DUDLEY HART: Yeah, well, especially at 7:15 in the morning. I wouldn't mind -- I think it's definitely easier starting on that hole at noon. At 7:15, it's 55, 58 degrees, it's cool and the ball is not going to jump off the club like it will at noon when it's even 65, whatever it is now. But early in the morning, the ball just doesn't go as far and it's not going to run as much, obviously, in the fairway. So it plays longer. But that was just how the draw came out. Those holes aren't easy no matter what. You've got to play them at some point.
Q. (Inaudible.)
DUDLEY HART: Not really. I didn't really worry about it. Like I said, you've got to play the hole, the hole is hard no matter what. Instead of 12 o'clock, it might be playing ten yards shorter. So instead of hitting a 2-iron in, you're hitting a 3-iron in. So it's still hard. It's a long hole and you've got to play them at some point. And it's just --
Q. (Inaudible.)
DUDLEY HART: Well, it was disappointing, because I hadn't really felt like -- I didn't hit a great tee shot on 10, I didn't hit a great one on 12. But after that, I really had a pretty good command of my tee shots. And didn't really hit a terrible shot on 5. I just pushed it a little bit. But didn't carry the bunker. And it was disappointing to make 7 there. But I knew I had to stay patient. I knew that the scores aren't going to be real low this week, chances are. I'm 2 over par, hang in and try to make a couple of birdies coming in, and stay patient. If you lose your confidence and lose your composure for too long out here, you can shoot some high numbers, and it can happen quick.
And keeping my composure, some of you guys know, is not my strong suit. But that was one of the things I told myself is just try to stay in there, because you're going to hit some bad shots and you're going to make some bogeys, but hopefully, you can make enough birdies to offset some of those mistakes.
Q. (Inaudible.)
DUDLEY HART: No, they were well-behaved. Granted it was pretty early, so they didn't -- not too many people were on the course yet. But it was -- I didn't notice anything any different from any other tournament. The fans were fine.
Q. (Inaudible.)
DUDLEY HART: I made about a 25-footer on No. 11 for birdie. But other than that, that was -- I made a couple of short -- I had -- I made a couple of short ones, 2 footers. But actually, one two-footer for birdie. But other than that, that was it.
Q. (Inaudible.)
DUDLEY HART: Ten, 10 drivers. It's too long, some of those holes, if you hit 3-wood, you might have another 3-wood in, some of those holes. I felt pretty decent with the driver, so you can't play too scared. There are certain holes that I could have hit driver on 5, maybe, but it just -- it sets up better for a 3-wood for me, even though it didn't work out well for me today, I'll probably hit 3-wood tomorrow unless it's into the wind. It sets up better for me. It's set up differently for different guys, and the driver just doesn't seem to fit in that fairway.
On that particular hole, I lose -- the fairway runs out of where my eye kind of takes me. I want to try to hit 3-wood in the wide spot. But there aren't many holes -- you can hit 3-wood on 1. 2, you can hit whatever you want, really, anything other than driver, probably. But all those other holes, you've got to try to hit driver and get the ball in the fairway, I think.
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