BOB HOPE CHRYSLER CLASSIC

January 19, 2000

Glen Day

GLEN DAY: It is the start of the year. I wish we had more time off, but we don't. I played good today. This is my third tournament, which is unbelievable for me, because this is usually my first. But I played decent today. You know, it's a five-round tournament. You've got to shoot about 88-under, and I'm only 6. So I've got a long way to go.

GLEN DAY: You've got one more day than normal here, for one. And, you know, out here, most courses, the greens -- the condition of the courses are so good that literally most every hole is a birdie hole. And the hardest part is when you are playing really good, and you feel like you are only about 3- or 4-under, and you feel like you should be 7- or 8- already. That's the hardest part. Yeah, you've got to just be patient, make a lot of pars and, hopefully, you make some putts.

GLEN DAY: Well, the more you play, obviously -- I played pretty good in Kapalua, and I didn't play that good in Honolulu, which is no big deal. So, I don't know. It's the third week out, as opposed to the first. I've been doing it a little more.

GLEN DAY: Well, I played Honolulu my rookie year, and the course is just not good for me. I like to hit it left-to-right; you've got to hit it right-to-left. I can't run it through fairways. I never got the speed of the greens. I played there -- I played that golf course now six times. It's just, you know some courses just aren't for you. I putted okay at Kapalua and I always have. And they have got grainy greens there. Go figure. I don't know. That's why they call it golf.

GLEN DAY: Yeah. Because my wife said she wanted to go to Honolulu. Just like any good husband, I said, "Yes, ma'am."

GLEN DAY: Well, she had the kids out there so she had to go home this week.

GLEN DAY: It's too early to even -- I mean, if we were all going out to dinner, we haven't even valeted the car yet.

GLEN DAY: No, I didn't make any bad mistakes today. I didn't make a bogey. I just kind of played along. I only shot 2-under on the front, which is not that good, and I ended up birdieing 17 and 18. For 6-under, it's just -- if you don't make mistakes, you just basically see how many putts you can make. And like this gentleman said earlier, you just try to stay patient.

GLEN DAY: No, not really, because I have always -- I always expected a lot of myself. The years I can look back through my career, the years that I played good, were years that I didn't set goals. Because the years that I set goals, I either reached them real early and had nowhere to go or maybe wasn't playing that good. And I couldn't get to them or set them too high and get mad. And every year that I just kind of started and said, "Okay, I'm going to go the best I can do, see where that turns out," I done good. So hopefully, I've learned a little bit, I'm a little more mature; maybe I can figure that out and keep that through my career.

GLEN DAY: I met him the other day at Indian Wells. He was playing a practice round. And I think I have talked to him before, but extremely nice. You know he came up, he introduced himself. Just wanted to say hello. I let him head-up or whatever. Great guy. And that's what everybody says. You know, I think he -- he probably wishes that all the media that's following him around would go somewhere else and let him play golf, to be honest. And that's what he needs. He needs to play golf. Let him play golf. Let him have fun.

GLEN DAY: I birdied 6. Birdied 6 from about five feet. 8 is a par 5. I hit it up front of the green; kind of got up-and-down. Made it from about five feet. Where else?

GLEN DAY: 10, I hit it from about three inches. Pretty good on wind. Made that one.

GLEN DAY: 8- or 9-iron. Short iron. 8-iron. Take your pick. 14, I hit 9-iron in there about six or seven feet. And then 17, I hit 3-iron in there about four feet. That was probably my best shot. And 18, I left it short of the green, chipped up about, oh, seven, eight feet behind the hole and made it.

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