GENUITY CHAMPIONSHIP

March 4, 2001

Mike Weir

MIKE WEIR: He sure did.

MIKE WEIR: Obviously Joe played a phenomenal round of golf today in those conditions. 65 is a hell of a score. My hat is off to him. He played a great round of golf.

MIKE WEIR: Well, yeah, I didn't get much out of it after that. That was buried in the bunker, plugged lie, and made a pretty good bogey from there. So I wasn't that disappointed. 10 is a difficult shot for me, hitting 3-wood, being left-handed I have to start it almost at the water to hit it in that little neck. Pulled it just a little, but it went right against the lip of the next bunker. Hit a very good third shot in there that rolled over the back of the green. Good putt that hit a spike mark. That ball wasn't good to me at all. From there on out I played very solid. I hit every fairway pretty much. Really struck the ball solidly, just couldn't buy a putt. When I did hit a good shot the wind either gusted on me or switched and went down, so my good shots never turned out well.

MIKE WEIR: It was strong. It was swirling around quite a bit. It was a very strong wind.

MIKE WEIR: That is great playing. 12 under on the weekend with that wind both days is -- obviously he is hitting it well but he had to be making a lot of putts on those greens; wasn't getting any easier on those greens because they were starting to get burned out and crusty and he just played great golf.

MIKE WEIR: Oh, yeah. I played definitely well enough to win. I played much better today than definitely the second, third round. I didn't score as well, but I played much better. Drove it very well all day. Hit a lot of solid shots. Really didn't miss-hit a shot except for maybe 9, just a little bit miss-hit. But other than that I didn't miss-hit a shot.

MIKE WEIR: I didn't feel like I was playing conservatively at all. I was playing my game. I played the same game that I played the other three days, played exactly the same way. Just didn't turn out. I was -- my last 6, seven holes I was firing right at the flag. Like I said, the wind, you expect it when it is blowing into you to be blowing a certain way and when it does you -- all of a sudden you are 40 feet past the hole and vice versa on 15 when it gusts hard, come short of the bunker. You just have to -- that is just golf, you have to accept that sometimes.

MIKE WEIR: I hit a fairway wood. I was thinking 3-wood or 5-wood. Hit a good 5-wood, and right where I was -- where I wanted to hit it.

MIKE WEIR: Yeah, I was trying to take dead aim at it last few holes. 16 went right at it. 17 right at it again, hit a really good shot on 17. The wind just died a little bit, went right over the top of the flag. 18 trying to hit a cut to right, the wind -- the wind kind of quartered and drove it straight down. I was taking aim at the last few holes.

MIKE WEIR: That is what I just was saying, 3-wood down right side, rolled up against the lip of the bunker, had kind of one foot in, one foot out. It was right against the lip. I didn't have a shot. Got it out pretty good, came into the right rough, very good third shot that landed probably little further than what I liked; jumped a little bit out of the rough, rolled over -- right over the pin, rolled over the back of the pin, chipped it probably eight feet and missed the putt. Hit a spike mark and missed the putt.

MIKE WEIR: I don't know much about Joe's game. I have played with him one time. That was my first year on the Tour four years ago, so obviously he is doing something right right now. I always thought that he was a good player when I did play with him, I thought he was a good player. I don't know what -- if he is doing anything differently, if he has made swing changes, I don't have an idea if he has done anything.

MIKE WEIR: Well, a little bit of both. I felt like I played well enough to be, you know, a few better than the score of 71 today, but Joe played a great round. What can you say. He played probably 4, 5 better than anybody else in the field. So probably little bit of both. Didn't get much out of my round. I played well enough to shoot better than 71 so in that regard I feel like I just didn't get much out of it. But Joe played really well.

MIKE WEIR: Really didn't. Maybe on 16 I was probably 15 feet like I said, I hit the ball very solid and had it right at the pin a lot. Just didn't turn out.