U.S. WOMEN'S OPEN CHAMPIONSHIP

July 13, 1995

Kris Tschetter

KRIS TSCHETTER: Well, it helped to have a little adrenaline flowing today because the first two days in the practice round was just so hard to get up those hills, so I felt better out there today. I had a little more energy. They did slow the greens down just a bit and that helped. Otherwise, I think we would have been out there all day. I mean, it was just some of those greens during the practice rounds were impossible.

KRIS TSCHETTER: Yeah, I think I am starting to adjust a little bit, definitely feeling better.

KRIS TSCHETTER: Well, it was a really pretty solid round. I didn't hit my driver very well. So I was in the rough, real rough a little bit. I hit 14 greens, just played pretty consistent. I had a couple of 3-putts. 3-putted for par on No. 9 and then what was the other hole? 3-putts 12, par 3. But other than that, I just -- it was just --

KRIS TSCHETTER: Birdied number 2. Hit -- actually didn't hit a very good shot, made a pretty good 30-footer. Then I bogeyed 3. It was kind of crazy, that hole. We were playing into the wind and I had hit really good drive, had 210 into the pin, and then we turned around the group behind us and they were hitting 8-irons again which is what we were hitting in the practice rounds, so that was a little funny. I made bogey there. I birdied 8. What did I knock in? Oh, yeah, I hit it 10 feet and made it. And then --

KRIS TSCHETTER: Yes, with a 3-putt. 13, I hit a 9-iron up about three feet, made it.

KRIS TSCHETTER: 17, I didn't hit a very good drive. I hit it into the rough and had to hit 5-wood out. Hit a real good 5-wood right up in front of the green; then pitched it to about 3 feet and made it. I hit my irons well. Just didn't hit my drivers as well as I wanted to.

KRIS TSCHETTER: They weren't all that much softer, don't get me wrong. They still -- they were still very difficult. You really had to respect where you put the ball on the green. But I think it was good that we played our practice rounds in such tough conditions that you really learned where you wanted to be.

KRIS TSCHETTER: No, all of them, if you get on the wrong side -- not all of them, but most of them if you are on the wrong side of the pin, you really have difficult putts.

KRIS TSCHETTER: It is a little shorter. I think the greens are less severe on the backside.

KRIS TSCHETTER: There was a little breeze; not a whole bunch.

KRIS TSCHETTER: I am not going to tell you that.

KRIS TSCHETTER: Just -- if the greens firm up, I am sure the rough is going to just be getting longer everyday, and I think it is just going to continue to play harder and harder each day.

KRIS TSCHETTER: Yes, aside from the 3-putts, but that is almost -- you just have to understand that you you probably are going to have some 3-putts out here, so, yeah it was consistent to hit 14 greens at a U.S. Open, I can't complain.

KRIS TSCHETTER: The one on 9 I had about 55 feet. I mean, it was -- I hit 3-wood in there and had quite a long putt and then the other one was 25 feet.

KRIS TSCHETTER: The second one on 9, boy, that was probably 12 feet by and then the other one was 4, 5 feet. A couple of putts today, I just totally misread. I read to go right and they went left or vice versa.

KRIS TSCHETTER: I did check the monument.

KRIS TSCHETTER: Yes. I really played well this year. I have had a lot of desire and I feel like my game has kind of gone to the next level, so you know, yeah, I think I can win a U.S. Open.

KRIS TSCHETTER: I hope I do too.