SENIOR PGA CHAMPIONSHIP

May 24, 2001

Bruce Fleisher

BRUCE FLEISHER: That's exactly right. Turned into a beautiful day. A very unassuming round today, folks. A lot of opportunities. Let's see... Is this my score card?

BRUCE FLEISHER: Wow, it's a beautiful thing. Let's see, I birdied the fourth hole, chipped it. I got one of those good chip shots, two good shots in front of the green. Chipped it about 6 inches, Larry says, "I think you can make that one," which I did. Actually, the highlight of my day, I think, was the 8th hole. Driver 4-wood up there about 8 feet, was able to knock that in. I birdied 9 with driver wedge to about 12 feet. My only real glitch was 11. I came off a 4-iron, hit a poor shot, didn't get it up-and-down out of the bunker. And I had opportunities, but other than 18 where I got it up-and-down from the right, it wasn't a whole lot out there. I hit a lot of fairways today, a lot of greens. Wasn't real, real sharp with my iron play, but I'm saying that because the leader's here. But it was a pretty solid round all in all.

BRUCE FLEISHER: Well, I think looking at this golf course, yesterday I actually got a chance to play it and I really -- I felt we had a big break today with the weather. And the golf course, I thought the course played a lot easier than I thought it was going to play as far as -- maybe easy isn't the right word. It played shorter in spots, where yesterday it really looked like it was going to take a bite out of you. But it's still a very difficult golf course for me. Par 3s are difficult, long irons. You do have to keep the ball in the fairway, and I was able to do that today. So it was a good round, believe me. I'm not downplaying it, you know. It was a good, solid round of golf.

LARRY NELSON: Bruce, is that really as good as you could play today? (Laughing.)

BRUCE FLEISHER: Larry, you saw it. It wasn't that exciting. But... Larry's next. He played terrific, too.