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FIELDS OPEN IN HAWAII

February 22, 2008

Michelle Wie West

HONOLULU, HAWAII

DANA GROSS-RHODE: Overall, you know, it was a 1-over par, so it was a little bit higher than yesterday. How are you feeling about your game right now?
MICHELLE WIE: I definitely feel like I played more solidly than I did yesterday. Obviously the score was a little bit higher, but I felt like my long game is a lot more solid than yesterday.
I was hitting a lot more good shots, a lot more solid. I feel like it's getting better and better. Obviously yesterday my putter was really hot, so that's why I dropped a lot of putts. Today I also dropped a lot of long ones early on. It feels more and more solid. I'm a little bit rusty from tournament mode, but I feel like I have two really solid rounds under my belt. Tomorrow hopefully will be good.
DANA GROSS-RHODE: Questions for Michelle.

Q. (No microphone.)
MICHELLE WIE: Well, I hit it left. I was right at the curve actually. My ball was in the grass area but like about a centimeter behind it. I was thinking, oh, at least if I hit it fat it won't go heavy. I was just kind of scared for my wrist a little bit there.
But I just kind of hit a couple shots. Just went up there, and I think it was seriously one of the best shots that I hit today. I had a 7-iron and I was on the path, so like the ball was a lot higher than my feet.
I just felt like I was really confident with that shot. I just really trusted myself. I hit it clean. It was not an easy shot. Half of my club was lying on the curve and half of it was lying on the rough.
Just a really interesting shot. I never had it before, and I hope I never do again. I felt like ti was one of the most solid shots I hit today.

Q. (No microphone.)
MICHELLE WIE: I know, I did. It felt really good.

Q. (No microphone.)
MICHELLE WIE: I think any kind of putt that I made today, especially on 5 when I made that really long one, on two, any kind of shot like that I nfeel like it pumps me up and gives me momentum. I felt like that was what I was lacking on the back 9.
That little one turn where I can get hot down the streak. That's where I was saying I'm a little bit rusty from tournament golf. I felt like with the two really solid rounds under my belt I think I'm just getting better and better.
Good shots are going into the memory bank, and it's just going to get better.

Q. (No microphone.)
MICHELLE WIE: That's what everyone hopes to have. You know, a really good long game. Really good short game and really good putting. Hopefully I can bring it all together.

Q. (No microphone.)
MICHELLE WIE: Definitely. And, you know, it's still very early on. It's my first tournament back, and, you know, obviously I'm very happy with how it turned out. I mean, how I got here. How I played really solid today and had a lot of really good tee shots.
I feel like my distance is coming back. I had a lot of really good solid shots. Had a couple bad breaks on a couple of lies throughout the round. That's what golf is.
I didn't feel like the score showed how well I played today. It's very early on, and I'm just coming back. Like I said, I'm still a little bit rusty, but two solid rounds under my belt and I'm really feeling better.

Q. (No microphone.)
MICHELLE WIE: You know, I tell myself I have a choice of either sulking about it or thinking about a situation, or I can make a little game out of it and pull myself out. I felt like today, you know, it was -- just kind of a couple shots, like I said on that curve shot, I just really focused and really just put all my energy into putting a good shot rather than dwelling on, What if something happens?
So I feel like I accomplished my goal of staying in the present. If a couple shots didn;t go the way I wanted to, it's fine. It's still really early on. I hit a lot more good shots than I did bad. I think I'm definitely on the positive road back.

Q. (No microphone.)
MICHELLE WIE: I think that's what makes the round. You know, where you hole a long, impossible par putt and you make a birdie putt. Those are the putts that makes or break you.
So I feel like whether it's for par or birdie or eagle, whatever, you know, a putt is a putt and a shot is a shot. I feel like I just really hit a -- I played a solid round today. The score did not show how well I played.
After I putted out on 18 I was like, I can't believe that the score shows what it did, because I felt like I played a lot better.

Q. (No microphone.)
MICHELLE WIE: It felt like old times when I made that putt. It was like, yeah. Kind of felt really good actually. It was about -- I don't know, felt like 45 feet, I think. But it was like kind of like that ridge shot. Yeah, exactly.
I go out there like, Oh, God, this is fast. So maybe one of those shots that I thought positively and I just focused and I just was really confident with it.
I was putting good, and I just told myself just putt it and it went in. It was a really good feeling.

Q. (No microphone.).
MICHELLE WIE: You know, I've been practicing a lot and I think it's showing. Like I said, it's just everything is coming back together: The long game, the short game, the putting. I feel like it's just all coming back.

Q. (No microphone.)
MICHELLE WIE: Definitely to shoot a lower round than today. Hopefully the score will show how well I'm playing. It was really solid. Another solid round under my belt.
I just need right now positive thoughts and positive rounds. Just to put into my memory bank and to move on forward from that. I feel like I just need to, you know, just stay present, be positive with myself.

Q. (No microphone.)
MICHELLE WIE: Well, I just felt like I played a little (indiscernible), you know, camouflage the fairways. No, it's like the new color for Nike for the season, and I thought I'd wear it.
DANA GROSS-RHODE: Thank you all very much. Good luck tomorrow, Michelle.

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