DORAL-RYDER OPEN

March 6, 1999

Glen Day

GLEN DAY: You are right, that's the fine physical shape I am in, probably.

GLEN DAY: I will have to look.

GLEN DAY: 5, I hit a wedge about, oh, six, seven feet. 7, I made -- hit an 8-iron about 15 feet, made it.

GLEN DAY: 8, I made a real good putt from 20 feet left of the hole down the hill.

GLEN DAY: Just an L-wedge, I don't know, 80 yards, hit a bad shot.

GLEN DAY: 10 was driver 3-iron right on the front, 2-putt.

GLEN DAY: I don't know, whereever the pin was, on 10.

GLEN DAY: 40 feet. 15, the par 3, I hit -- it was a perfect club, I hit a real good shot in there about, oh, two, three feet.

GLEN DAY: 8-iron.

GLEN DAY: Best shot of the day, that's pretty good, yes, that would be pretty good.

GLEN DAY: They all equal out, you know, they were -- no, the putt was probably better because you don't expect to make that putt, you know, the shots you can hit it in there and still make a putt.

GLEN DAY: Yes, yes, sir, downhill towards the water. I was left of the hole.

GLEN DAY: Yes, yes. You know, living east and going west is tough because when you get out there you can't get home that day and I got a family, I just as soon stay home. Plus I never -- I have never played good on the west coast. Some people play good, some don't.

GLEN DAY: Yes, it takes me way too many shots to finish 18 holes over there. It's amazing.

GLEN DAY: No, not off the top of my head. Just early in the year, it is hard to get back into it for me and the travel is tough, you know, I actually feel sorry for the people that live on the west coast because most of our Tour is east, and they really, really have a hard time.

GLEN DAY: I have no idea. Everybody's schedule is different. Everybody makes their own schedules. I don't know.

GLEN DAY: I play here every year, yes.

GLEN DAY: No, no, I mean, they -- you know, the World Golf Championship was last week, so you got to take some time off. You can't play every week, so you have to pick and choose where you are going to take off. I think a lot of guys will take this week and next week off and then play up through the Masters or something like that.

GLEN DAY: You know, I am a sensitive individual, what do you mean by a guy like me? Could you stand up and repeat that, please?

GLEN DAY: Every tournament I tee up is a ripe opportunity. I am trying to win, so I don't care if it's-- I don't care what it is or where it is. If I am playing, I am trying to win. Now, that doesn't always work, but you got to play that way. I am still a sensitive individual, by the way.

GLEN DAY: Can you say that one more time?

GLEN DAY: I have a computer and I know where the on button is and I try not to touch it because I am scared that thing will come on if I touch it.

GLEN DAY: There you go. No, I don't mess with those things. I like a phone, telephone, I know who I have talked to and what is going on.

GLEN DAY: I don't like computers, I don't like computers.

GLEN DAY: I don't know, I don't keep up with it like that. I haven't played that good -- I think I have only played one good round this year. That was in Phoenix. I may not have had any bogeys that day, I don't remember.

GLEN DAY: No, I didn't play -- I scored real good the first day and I hit the ball terrible and I have been -- I practiced every day which I usually do not hit practice balls after I finish. I think I found something in my swing. I can't put a finger on it, it's just -- you know, we go through swing keys and swing thoughts to kind of get you through, you want to hit different shots certain ways and I am still not hitting it as good as I can by any means, but I just kind of played smart and made some putts today.

GLEN DAY: My two little girls.

GLEN DAY: The oldest one is Whitney. She's four and a half and the youngest is three and a half, she's three. When Whitney was a baby, my wife made a button and sent it to me and I put it on my hat and I have kept it ever since.

GLEN DAY: Well, one you have to look and see who is writing the stuff. Jeffrey probably wrote some of that stuff so you have to take some of that into account.

GLEN DAY: Yes, see, last week it shows you just how tight the game of golf is - 1 to 64 - anybody can win in Match Play, that's a one day, one time deal. Janzen beat me three and two and I was 3-under. Andrew Magee won his first match. He was 4-over. It is Match Play, okay. For people to say you don't have the marquee names and this and that, that's been said a lot, said just about every week that we're out. It doesn't matter. It's kind of -- actually, it is kind of boring to hear. I mean, you're looking at names. If you want to look at quality of golf, there's plenty of quality of golf at this tournament.

GLEN DAY: I don't know, probably.

GLEN DAY: No, I didn't get irked by it, I can assure you.

GLEN DAY: I don't -- I don't pay much attention. I have got a job to do just like you all have a job to do. My job is out there, whether somebody writes I am a nice guy or not a nice guy, it doesn't change the 14 clubs that are in my bag, so why worry about it.

GLEN DAY: Sure, it's kind of like a stepping ladder or building blocks, you know, I added some blocks and I stepped up a level last year. Now I have to maintain that, so, yes, your goals change. I have got a legitimate shot at the Ryder Cup. I think I need to win a couple of times. That's a goal there. There's a lot of things. It just -- what drives a certain person, top-30 maybe, top 70 for some guys, you know, rookies want to finish in the top 70 maybe, top-30, wins, Ryder Cups, President Cups, play good in the majors, it just is kind of how -- first you have to see how it gets going, I think, and then look from there.

GLEN DAY: Pressure from other people, no. From myself, yes, I will put that pressure on myself and I will do it happily because, you know, when I was growing up a lot of times I heard many a times that -- oh, that kid doesn't have a chance; he is not going to make it, so now it's up to me to show that last year wasn't a fluke. I fully expect to do that.

GLEN DAY: Well, it would be a tremendous honor for me because I played three years in Europe and so it would really, really be an honor for me. It's something to work for. And it's something that I, you know, when you get out there today or tomorrow that may -- you always have to use something to release the tension, let's say, while you're playing, if you've got a tough putt or if you need to make a putt, and that -- something like that, and I am not saying that's what I am going to do or anything, but something like that, you know, this putt, 5-footer, boy, if you make it, that's great, you can be tied for the lead, but that's one step closer, you know, to making the Ryder Cup. So that kinds of puts things in perspective.

GLEN DAY: No, no.

GLEN DAY: When they come over here and when I go over and I play Loch Lomond and the British and I still call some people that we used to play with, around Tour anymore, yes, I do,, great group of guys and I had a ball.

GLEN DAY: It is extremely different. Different in a good way.

GLEN DAY: Yes. This is family oriented, you know, a lot of families don't travel over there, families travel out here so you don't run around with the guys, you know, all as much. I think this is much more family oriented.

GLEN DAY: Yes, in a word.

GLEN DAY: I make up my mind of what shot I am going to hit and then hit it and that does not always guarantee that it's going to be better, but it gives you an opportunity to hit a better shot as opposed to standing over it, playing slow and this and that. Yes, I do think it's helped.

GLEN DAY: Commitment level is higher.

GLEN DAY: Brought --

GLEN DAY: Well, I played real, real slow and, you know, it's something that I needed to work on. And so as I was working on that I found that it did help, you know, playing a little -- making up my mind and hitting shots, I played better. It's something that I will constantly work on probably my whole career.

GLEN DAY: One.

GLEN DAY: Yes.

GLEN DAY: Just as many as anybody else out here.

GLEN DAY: No, Honda, actually.

GLEN DAY: It will have no impact.

GLEN DAY: No, same thing I have been doing. Not a thing. It's just another day at the office.