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SENIOR PGA CHAMPIONSHIP

May 22, 2008

Kirk Hanefeld

ROCHESTER, NEW YORK

Q. The good news is you're the clubhouse leader. The bad news is you ran into some trouble on the last hole.
KIRK HANEFELD: I hit four bad tee shots today combined, total of the four tee shots missed the fairway by 10 feet and every single one of them I had to chop it out.
I made one bad swing today, my third shot on No. 9, my last hole. Short sided myself where I couldn't get it up-and-down.
But I played solid all day and made that one bad mistake on the last hole that I played, which doesn't make you feel too good right now.

Q. How is it like being one of the first groups out today?
KIRK HANEFELD: Tough. Brutal. I think on a nice warm day this is a tough golf course. With the conditions that we had this morning it was about as hard as I've ever seen.
So if somebody had said I would shoot 71 the first day before I started I would have taken it in a heart beat. But the way I played it was about as high as I could have shot.

Q. Is the rough right now the most penalizing thing right now?
KIRK HANEFELD: Brutal. I hit in the rough four times and every single time I had to hit sand wedge out. I just had no chance to advance the ball. And I didn't miss the fairway by much. I missed, like I said, four tee shots combined total and missed it by 10 feet.
And the last hole I missed the fairway by that far and I had to hit sand wedge out just to get it out. And then I made one bad swing and it cost me another shot.

Q. You did have a couple birdies, right?
KIRK HANEFELD: I made three birdies, two bogeys, and a double. So I had it under par most of the day. Between even and under and I'm still happy with the round, but it, I played better than 71.

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