U.S. SENIOR OPEN CHAMPIONSHIP

July 1, 1994

Simon Hobday

SIMON HOBDAY: Tom Weiskopf had the honor, he was just about to take his club back when they called play. So we had to walk in.

SIMON HOBDAY: As I said here yesterday, I went home and prayed for rain and it did rain. So the greens were soft, soft dartboards again today, so that is why the round was so good. It really played easy out there.

SIMON HOBDAY: I dropped one straight-a-way on the fifth hole but after that, I hit my irons right down the flag just about every hole and popped in a few putts.

SIMON HOBDAY: I don't know. I went to sleep a bit in the locker room.

SIMON HOBDAY: Yeah, I laid down in the locker room.

SIMON HOBDAY: Yeah.

SIMON HOBDAY: Half an hour or so.

SIMON HOBDAY: As I was saying, I am not a pretty sight at five o'clock in the morning, nor at 7, and face that tough hole. I wish to hell we could have finished it tonight, even in the dark. But that is all right. That is the way the cookie crumbles. We will just have to do our best tomorrow.

SIMON HOBDAY: Well, I didn't have any serious plans for this evening anyway, but if I did have them, it would have put a damper on them, yeah.

SIMON HOBDAY: I was on the fourth hole and we finished that, I made a par there. I dropped one in on the fifth.

SIMON HOBDAY: Well, no, it is just -- first few holes I made solid pars, and my irons, I got more and more confident every time I stood over an iron today. Maybe yesterday I just got into this kind of slot and I was feeling good about it. Today, it was getting better and better and better. When you are 50 years old, you don't know what the hell is going to happen in the morning, that is why I wanted to finish off today. Hopefully, it will be as good tomorrow morning.

SIMON HOBDAY: Yes.

SIMON HOBDAY: No, iron played mostly. Eventually one or two putts went in. Iron play set it up.

SIMON HOBDAY: The way I have been playing for the last 10 weeks, every time I make a par I am quite delighted and on this course, any time you make a par, it is good. You are never unhappy with par.

SIMON HOBDAY: I am trying not to think of that. I am just not trying not to think of that at all. I am going to phone them up at five o'clock.

SIMON HOBDAY: Birdie putts, okay, I went--- 10, I hit 5 foot, 12 was 6 foot. 13 was probably 15 feet. And 15 -- 16 was probably 20 feet.

SIMON HOBDAY: 15, yes, the short hole.

SIMON HOBDAY: Yes, I was-- I kind of looked at the leader board every now and again. I try not to look at that. It is not a good thing for me to do, to look at leader boards, actually.

SIMON HOBDAY: Yeah, you can't help it. Out of the corner of your eye you look at it just to check what has gone by. I didn't look at it all day long saying, what is happening, what is happening. I just looked and said, okay, we are still in there.

SIMON HOBDAY: It was amazing. As soon as my name got on the leader board, I would double or triple bogey or do something or drop 5 in a row just to get away from that leader board. I had leader boarditis, they call it; very badly, actually. Until the Kroger, finally we won, I actually took the lead on the very last shot of the day, so that leader board -- didn't have the time to choke.

SIMON HOBDAY: Yes, I think if I am playing well I am good in the front. If I am playing badly, I am no good at all. So, you know, if I am uncertain of what I am doing, in other words, if I am uncertain of what I am doing; not that I am playing bad, then I am not a good front runner, but if I am certain of what I am doing, I am a good front runner.

SIMON HOBDAY: That would depend just after the ten minutes on the range whether I am going to be happy or not.