U.S. SENIOR OPEN CHAMPIONSHIP

June 30, 1994

Wayne Carey

WAYNE CAREY: Basically, my goals started out this morning was to shoot an even par round. Tried to not make any bad mistakes. I am glad I didn't.

WAYNE CAREY: 2 bogeys.

WAYNE CAREY: I hit bad shots. You usually wind up with bogeys when you hit bad shots. But, yeah, I bogeyed number 5, which is absolutely the toughest hole of golf I have ever played. I bogeyed 11 which is probably the second toughest hole I have played.

WAYNE CAREY: Well, characteristics on 5 is that you have to hit it far, to have an iron that you can control into the greens; very small target to hit to. And 11 is, you know, where the pin was today is just a sucker pin, and I went for it and I paid the price.

WAYNE CAREY: I just hit the ball real solid today and I putted real well. That was the key to the whole round, is the way I putted.

WAYNE CAREY: I shot 62 back in my home course about seven years ago.

WAYNE CAREY: Honey Creek Country Club in Conyers, Georgia.

WAYNE CAREY: Yes, assistant greenskeeper. Greenskeeper is going on vacation Monday and I got to be back.

WAYNE CAREY: Then the general manager will take care of it.

WAYNE CAREY: Yeah, I think so. I have a lot of support from Honey Creek and a lot of excellent support, and that means a lot.

WAYNE CAREY: You can't compare it. Our greens are good at Honey Creek but they are nothing on the stature of this. These are absolutely the best golf courses I have played.

WAYNE CAREY: Semi-public. We allow the public during the week and private on weekends and holidays, for members only.

WAYNE CAREY: I didn't want to wake myself up. I wouldn't even try to. I stayed focused. I had my caddy which is my youngest son. He gave me support all the way. He told me to keep my tempo and read the putts; excellent for me. He has never seen the greens except until Monday, and he can read the putts as good as anybody.

WAYNE CAREY: Scott, and he is 30 years old.

WAYNE CAREY: No, sir.

WAYNE CAREY: No, he is not. He couldn't get on. He is color blind.

WAYNE CAREY: Turned pro 1st of June.

WAYNE CAREY: Well, I had four people that had showed enough interest and had enough faith in me to put up their money for sponsorship and told me to go out and play. That is what we are doing.

WAYNE CAREY: Well, been playing a lot. I have played in three senior series tournaments which is sponsored by Global Sports Management. It is a place for the seniors that play -- that are not getting to qualify or don't get one of the four spots on the regular Senior PGA Tour. And it helped in competition. They got excellent competition out there. Played good, excellent golf courses and, you know, honing their games is what they are doing.

WAYNE CAREY: No. I qualified in open qualifying at Rivermont (phonetic) in Atlanta.

WAYNE CAREY: I shot 70.

WAYNE CAREY: No, I haven't.

WAYNE CAREY: Oh, the last ten years about three to four times a week.

WAYNE CAREY: Yeah. It really is. I don't like to travel that much. I am finding that out now. But that is part of the process and something that you got to learn.

WAYNE CAREY: I retired from the Fire Department in June of 1992.

WAYNE CAREY: Honey Creek Country Club. I had been working at Honey Creek Country Club part-time for about seven or eight years.

WAYNE CAREY: Never played in a regular senior tour event but have played in senior series, which is like I said, it is put on by Global Sports Management.

WAYNE CAREY: I played in three of them.

WAYNE CAREY: 20th. Good competition out there.

WAYNE CAREY: Right.

WAYNE CAREY: It was $1,250.

WAYNE CAREY: I don't have an amateur record. I have participated in a lot of amateur events, but nothing on the magnitude of people like Danny Yates or Allen Doyle and--

WAYNE CAREY: No, I didn't.

WAYNE CAREY: No.

WAYNE CAREY: State of Georgia finished 19th.

WAYNE CAREY: Yes, very much surprised. But it is something that I have been looking forward to and working toward and when I leave here I am going to go out and beat some more golf balls.

WAYNE CAREY: I hope so. I think I will. I have got a caddy that keeps me pretty cool.

WAYNE CAREY: I much rather have a three-foot putt for $50,000 than I had to pull up in front of a burning building with people hanging out of it and I have done that. So. . .

WAYNE CAREY: Yeah. I have had quite a few couple of times. It is part of the territory that you go -- that you have to cover. It is like out here playing with in these conditions, it is just something you got to learn to do.

WAYNE CAREY: Seeing your name on leader board on number 3 when I made my first birdie; then I birdied 4; then I bogeyed 5. One of my sponsors, he is is running around here somewhere, he let me know about it.

WAYNE CAREY: Yeah, I seen it.

WAYNE CAREY: No, I knew what I was shooting. I am the one that has got to sign for the score. Whatever they have up on there, it doesn't matter.

WAYNE CAREY: Okay. I birdied 3 from about 20 feet and number 4, I hit a wedge in there; third shot about two feet from the hole and birdie it. Then birdied 10. 10 was playing real tough today. I had a driver 3-iron, 4-iron and about 4 feet and. . .

WAYNE CAREY: About four feet and birdied it. And then birdied 17 from about six feet. So I was hitting the ball pretty close today. I hit the ball pretty solid.

WAYNE CAREY: I hit a 4-iron.

WAYNE CAREY: Number 5, I hit it down the left center of the fairway. It kicked over in the rough and tried to play a shot out of there and I was hoping it would come left and it didn't. It wound up in the bunker on the right-hand side with the, I guess you call it love grass and I didn't have a swing, so I had to just punch it out and hopefully it will get on the green and then 2-putt for bogey.

WAYNE CAREY: No, I would not have called it love grass.

WAYNE CAREY: I played everyday, Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday.

WAYNE CAREY: Yeah, I did.

WAYNE CAREY: 68 I shot 68 Monday.

WAYNE CAREY: No, I have not.

WAYNE CAREY: I am nervous.

WAYNE CAREY: Yes. If I am back in here that means I played good.

WAYNE CAREY: It really gives me a big boost. I personally had my doubts that I could play with the golfers and the caliber of golfers that were out there and I am still not real sure that I can, but like I said, it's a learning process and if things keep going I am going to keep playing.