THE NABISCO CHAMPIONSHIP

March 22, 2001

Pat Hurst

PAT HURST: I birdied No. 2. Actually I bogeyed one. I hit it in the left rough and hit it just short of the green and couldn't get it up-and-down. I birdied No. 2. I hit 3-wood to the left bunker and then chipped it out to about four feet, made the putt. I birdied No. 4., I hit 8-iron from 146 to about 40 feet and made the putt. No. 6 I hit 6-iron from 171 to about ten feet. No. 5, I hit 8-iron just short of the green, and then didn't get it up-and-down. Chipped it long to about, oh, six feet, missed the putt. 18, I hit 7-iron to about five feet, made the putt. I was about 143 away.

PAT HURST: 18 is playing a little tough today. Playing right into the wind. I hit 3-wood off the tee and then hit a 7-wood. I didn't have -- (inaudible) it was in the first cut; hit 7-wood; still had 143 to the wind. So it is playing long out there.

PAT HURST: You know, the rough is pretty thick out there this week, and I remember it being thick at times and other times it hasn't been this thick. But I think it depends on where you are and which way it has been mowed and how much it is sitting down. So there was times today when I can get a club on the ball and then there was times when I couldn't get a club on the ball. So it is pretty thick. No. 1 is a good example. I hit it left. That was pretty much it. 1, and then I hit it in the rough -- I hit it in the rough I don't know how many times, but like on 12 I hit it in the left rough, but I was able to get a club on the ball. So I mean, it all depends on where you were at.

PAT HURST: 8-iron hoping that it would release out of there. It hit soft and it didn't release like I wanted it to.

PAT HURST: You know, I just trying to go and play the best I can. That year I was hitting the ball really well, so that you know, I have a lot of -- obviously I have a lot of good memories from that tournament. But I don't mind playing in the wind. I wish -- I would rather have conditions that are harder than conditions that are easy out there. It is definitely hard out there.

PAT HURST: On one I had 142 to the pin, 142 to the pin, 118 to the front, so I was just trying to get on the front edge and it still didn't get there you know, and I normally carry an 8-iron about 145.