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JOHN DEERE CLASSIC

July 10, 2005

Mark Hensby

SILVIS, ILLINOIS

Q. Solid last day puts you in contention.

MARK HENSBY: Yeah, I don't think it's going to stay in contention. I think I needed to make at least get to 15 to have a chance, and obviously I didn't do that, even though I had a chance to

Q. Taking defending pretty seriously today, huh?

MARK HENSBY: I got off to a good start, and then I didn't really putt well early on, and then all of a sudden I started to make some putts.

It's amazing, you get on a bit of a roll, 17 was kind of disappointing because I really had a chance to do something there and just got stuck in between clubs.

Q. Overall assess your week coming back here, and 14 not too bad.

MARK HENSBY: Yeah, overall it was a good week.

Obviously it turned out better than what I I've been making a lot of birdies in the last few tournaments but just not staying consistent. I had two double bogeys this week from nowhere, just off the edge of the fairways, and so overall, yeah, it was pretty good defense, I think.

Q. How about the shirt today? How did you come up with that?

MARK HENSBY: Yeah, I know. Clair Peterson tried to get me going with the pink, so I said, yeah, okay, I'll wear one, so I just kind of did it. It was for charity obviously, and I went there over the week and it's good to wear it, so it obviously rubbed off very well.

Q. Do you have any pink in the closet?

MARK HENSBY: No.

Q. Does a round like this give you some good momentum going into St. Andrews and a good state of mind, things like that?

MARK HENSBY: Yeah, because I hit the ball well.

You know, if I just scrapped it around and got to where I was at, yeah, but I hit the ball well and really had trouble judging the greens this week, speed wise. It seemed like there was a lot of different speeds out there. Yeah, I feel like I'm playing well and really looking forward to next week. That's why I came here really.

Q. Talk about your week overall. Was it fun defending?

MARK HENSBY: Obviously early in the week it wasn't, with Michelle being the so called attraction of the tournament, which she was, and I understand why. But once that was all over, I think we got back to a normal tournament. It was obviously a lot easier to play on the weekend knowing that that's not all you were hearing about.

Q. Did you feel under appreciated?

MARK HENSBY: Oh, no doubt, yeah, of course I did.

You know, you can't accept it, but in a way it's kind of like you come and defend when realistically I've got a big tournament next week, and so I went out of my way to come here and obviously I've done a lot, and I feel like I really wasn't appreciated as well.

Q. Talk about 17, you said you were between clubs. How did your approach go and talk about the putt.

MARK HENSBY: I absolutely yanked the putt. The speed, as I said earlier, it was just always a struggle this week. Yeah, I was going to hit 6 at it because I saw the guy behind me, he stopped it on that back part, so I went soft at a 5 and just tried to hold it up and just got up over the top of it. The putt was just a terrible putt. I gagged it really, just really hit a terrible putt.

17 you've just got to get it back in that back corner and see what happens.

Q. What is it about you and Sundays here?

MARK HENSBY: I don't know. You know, I mean, I felt comfortable today, even down the stretch. I figured if I could get to 15, I might have some chance, but 14 is definitely not going to have a chance. I think someone will get to 16 or 17 now that I've been looking at the scores. I don't know, this course definitely fits my eye, there's no doubt.

Q. No scoreboard watching for you?

MARK HENSBY: No doubt there was. I wanted to see towards the end there was. I wanted to see where I stood and what I had to do. I tried to play as aggressive as I could, but you don't want to be stupid, either, in case you do get close and miss. Overall I looked at the boards a little bit.

Q. Will the way things went this week maybe affect your decision to come back here next year?

MARK HENSBY: Oh, hell no. You never give up a course that you've played well on. Clair Peterson and everybody has been really good to me, it's just, you know, I think that's about all I can say really, is no, I definitely would come back no matter what.

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