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CHARLES SCHWAB CUP CHAMPIONSHIP

October 23, 2004

Mike Hill

SONOMA, CALIFORNIA

Q. Congratulations. I know they just mentioned it moments ago that this is your second win in the Georgia Pacific Grand Championship and you've also won the Charles Schwab Cup Championship two times. Just share your thoughts. You probably never get tired of winning, I guess.

MIKE HILL: No, I don't think you ever get tired of winning. I guess I'm probably as surprised as a lot of people are here. I haven't played very well this year. This is, I believe, my 16th event. I played good in Long Island again, and I won there, and I played good in Birmingham, but other than that, I haven't played very well at all. I played good in San Antonio. But this week I played as good as I've played in a long time.

Q. How are the conditions out there today, especially with the rain and cooler weather?

MIKE HILL: Well, when I woke up this morning and it was raining and cold. My body isn't very good in the cold, so I thought that if I could shoot even par I would be very fortunate. I started right off the first hole and hit it right in that big tree, and I was fortunate enough it dropped down in the fairway. I made bogey there. But after that things started happening better for me and I drove it in every fairway and I tried to just hit fairways and greens and it worked great.

Q. Birdie at number ‑‑ just give us clubs and putts on No.Ã‚Â 2.

MIKE HILL: No.Ã‚Â 2, I was just on the fringe and chipped in.

Q. How far? Any idea how far?

MIKE HILL: I had about a 30‑foot chip shot. And then I birdied No. 3. I hit a 6‑iron about 4Ã‚Â feet, and I made that one. I made pars the rest of the way.

I birdied 11 from a foot.

I then bogeyed 14Ã‚Â ‑‑ no 15, I bogeyed 15. I drove it in the fairway, but I pulled my 6‑iron to the left of the green. I wasn't able to get up and down.

And I then went and birdied 17 from 5Ã‚Â feet, and 18 from 4Ã‚Â feet. I hit a 7‑iron at 17 and a 6‑iron at 128.

Q. Obviously the weather here is usually pretty good, but over the years I'm sure you played in some bad weather. Amateurs would say, "I'm not playing today." You guys have to play. Do you psych yourself up or do you play a different game and you try not to get as frustrated perhaps by the conditions?

MIKE HILL: I think you need to have a lot of patience and I was able to have patience today. I think this golf course, with the deep rough, made you have patience. You needed to drive it in the fairway. Everybody knows that. If you don't drive it in the fairway, your chances of making a par are, I would guess, less than 50Ã‚Â percent. But I felt like when it continued to mist and rain and never got any warmer, I felt like everybody was going to have a hard time. I felt like if I could hang in there and hit some greens and some fairways that I would have a chance at least of getting in a playoff, and I never dreamed I would get to 9‑under. I thought if I could be 6‑under or even 5‑under, I would have had a good day.