U.S. SENIOR OPEN CHAMPIONSHIP

June 29, 2001

Bruce Fleisher

BRUCE FLEISHER: Go ahead, guys. What do you need?

BRUCE FLEISHER: Well, today obviously with no wind, but for me the golf course played much longer. I don't know, maybe the guys are understanding a little bit more, but I think so many greens were slow and then a couple were fast and hard. I didn't quite understand that. But, you know what, it was difficult, I felt. I thought I had a difficult pairing coming to this -- oh, Dana just barely missed it, didn't go in. How does that not go in? Wow. Blow on it.

BRUCE FLEISHER: That's right. The wind would have done it yesterday. I may play with Dana tomorrow. That would be great.

BRUCE FLEISHER: Well, I think the emotion, the focus. Hey, listen, it could have been a better pairing, if you want to put it that way. Guys that you grew up with and admired your whole life. These guys were proven. So I got through it. I played well, still in the hunt. That's all you can really ask for.

BRUCE FLEISHER: I try to relax myself, and I'll say a few words. I know that Raymond is pretty much a student. He's pretty focused. He really gets into the game. And Jack, I think Jack wants to play well. We all want to play well. But I think it's just hard to just let it go. Jack's doing that, I think. I think he's enjoying it more.

BRUCE FLEISHER: I think it's very difficult. I thought the greens were very slow today. I hit a great shot on 7, 3-iron that went over the green, just released. And that green was hard and fast. 17 was hard and fast.

BRUCE FLEISHER: No. I tell you what. You know what, I don't normally do that, because I hit the shot. But I blame my caddy there. I wanted to hit 6 and he wanted me to hit 7. I think he misread the wind. He just misread the shot altogether. That cost me. That's a bad, bad mistake. It's inexcusable, the way I think about it, the way I was swinging. I hit the shot. I'm the one to blame. I only use him as a crutch, you know. It doesn't mean I'm happy. I can tell you that.

BRUCE FLEISHER: You know what, I don't know. It must have. Like I said, we read it wrong. We read it long.

BRUCE FLEISHER: Yeah, 2 was very difficult. Of course, I didn't knock it in the fairway there. But I hit a good second shot through the green, didn't get it up and down. I haven't really got it up and down very much.

BRUCE FLEISHER: This golf course? Well, the length of it. First of all, it's a blind tee shot.

BRUCE FLEISHER: It's a blind tee shot and the hole is very long. That's a pretty good combination. BRUCE FLEISHER: Thank you.