KEMPER INSURANCE OPEN

June 1, 2000

Brett Quigley

BRETT QUIGLEY: Dana gave me a talking to last night, my uncle. I've been talking to Dana all week. Obviously, he's been playing great this whole year, and I played a lot with him this winter and was kicking his butt. He said if he can do it, I can do it. But I've just been trying too hard. This is my second event since AT&T. I think today was a big event for me not to get in my own way. And fortunately, I got off to a good start and made two birdies, so kind of took some pressure off.

BRETT QUIGLEY: I felt like it was time three years ago. That's the thing that I've struggled with. I feel like I can play out here and compete and, you know, it's just a matter of doing it and you have to do it. So far, I really haven't. The last year, the last six months I've really come a long way with my attitude and my game. It's finally starting to come around.

BRETT QUIGLEY: Not so much negative or positive. But I think there was more a sense of urgency before, oh, gosh, I've got to do it this week. I've got to play well today. Got to do this, do that; get caught up in looking at the leaderboard. Thinking of the results instead of the process of how you get there. That's a big thing for me. If I can stay caught up in the process, I have a tendency to do pretty well.

BRETT QUIGLEY: I thought the front played as easy as the back. Finally, when it warmed up, the golf ball was going a little further because on Monday and Tuesday, this golf course -- I mean, today it was 50 yards longer on every hole. It's just amazing how much further the golf ball was going today. This golf course is good. If you hit it in the fairway you can score and if you're little off, it will get you. I like the golf course. It's a good test.

BRETT QUIGLEY: It was cold, 65 degrees, and still wet and rainy and finally dried out today. 10, 3-wood and wedge on 10, about six feet and made it. 11, 8 iron and lucked out, made a 40-footer up-and-down the hill. It was nice to see that one go in. 18, I hit a good drive and a good 7-iron about four feet. 2, I hit driver, 3-iron in sand wedge about six feet left of the hole and made birdie. And then 6, I made a great drive and I hit a 4-iron about 30 feet behind the hole and 2-putted.

BRETT QUIGLEY: I wish I could hit it as straight as he does. It's unbelievable. That guy hits his irons so straight. Plus his attitude. Wherever he's played and he gets comfortable, he really thinks he can beat everybody. And he's done that -- obviously he's won this year, but he's had like 10 Top-10s in 16 events. You know, the guy has gone from nowhere to competing or beating Watson and Irwin and Fleisher and all of the guys that are playing great. All of the sudden, he is one of those guys. Pretty neat.

BRETT QUIGLEY: He's a great player. He's won our State 8 times our State Amateur three times. So we still have some darned good grudge matches when the three of us get together. And we are always kidding each other about who is the best of the family. You don't want to be known as the third-best Quigley because you're in trouble.

BRETT QUIGLEY: Paul.

BRETT QUIGLEY: Yeah, I had a lot of success as a junior golfer and I think with that success, I guess it made me -- maybe too much expectations or just trying too hard. It's easy to talk about it here: Go ahead and relax and have a good time out there and really stay focused. But when you miss a few putts or hit it close a couple times for birdie and start grinding, it's not always easy to remember that every time and do it.

BRETT QUIGLEY: Golf is just such a test. I mean, you never know what you're going to show up each day, what game is going to show up, whether you're going to play good or bad. That's just the way it is. Some days you get the good ones and you get away with some bad ones, too.

BRETT QUIGLEY: I think. So there's certainly a lot of great players out there. I think it's tougher to make a cut, 55 ties instead of 70 ties. You always see cuts a lot closer to the leader there. I don't know, just maybe because kids are watching on TV when they are growing up and all of the sudden you have to compete again, you know, whoever it is, the guys you are watching whether it's Tiger or Duval that might hold them back until they get to their late 20s or 30 tees, until they think they can win or start to compete. I don't know why you don't see more younger players.

BRETT QUIGLEY: Mickelson came out, Gamez. There aren't -- maybe 10 guys at the most. You'd think there would be more. You're right.

BRETT QUIGLEY: Both of those definitely help. I would say the golf course is the most important thing for me. If I like the golf course, then certainly I have a better chance of doing well. And obviously, I like this place. I played okay here a couple of times. But it's a good golf course. It's long and it's tough.

BRETT QUIGLEY: Probably both. Combination of everything. And also helped having Greg Chalmers play well today. He and I both just kind of kept going. Didn't really give any back. I don't think he made a bogey. The two of us a whole day without a bogey. That's pretty good out here.

BRETT QUIGLEY: This is my fourth. Hawaii, AT&T and Greensboro.

BRETT QUIGLEY: I played some BUY.COM events in the last month.

BRETT QUIGLEY: I had a second and a third, two out of three weeks. So it's definitely helped. I played in the last group two out of three weeks. It's kept me sharp. So instead of not playing from Greensboro to now, certainly good to have a place to play and compete.

BRETT QUIGLEY: Definitely. If you play the TOUR and go back down there, it's not punishment, but a lot of guys see it as that. But you've got to be ready to play out there because it's certainly different. Obviously, this is the best place in the world to play, and they are doing a great job on the BUY.COM TOUR, but it's not the PGA TOUR.

BRETT QUIGLEY: Yeah, you've just got to be ready to play. You can't go in there thinking you're just going to kick everybody's butt. Bigger than life, I think. I think some guys have a tendency to do that and then don't do well as a result.

BRETT QUIGLEY: Finished second -- tied for second in Florence, South Carolina Classic, and tied for third in Richmond. Richmond Open, maybe. Maybe it's this area of the country that I play well in.

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