PAGENET CHAMPIONSHIP

November 14, 1999

Se Ri Pak

SE RI PAK: Okay. I made 1st hole for bogey. I drive it in the right side, and right behind the tree, my ball is in -- tree is bothering me, so I hit 8-iron. Hit the tree, maybe 30 yards short, to the pin. So I use my 60-degree and chip to almost 10 feet -- I think almost 10 feet over the pin; 2-putt, bogey. My second bogey is par 5, on No. 5. I hit my driver another -- on right side. So bunker, bunker -- then I hit 3-iron like -- tree is like 40 yards, I think -- no tree. I think it's not bothering me because I hit the 3-iron to make it a little lower. I hit it -- actually, perfectly, I hit the tree, and come back; so I hit (inaudible) for third shot and six feet on fourth shot and another 10 feet is par. But I miss the putt so I made bogey, 2-putt. No. 7 is my 8-iron on the tee. That's 20 feet; I make the birdie. No. 9, is my A-wedge for third shot, 17 feet for birdie. No. 10 is my 3-ironshot into the green, maybe 20 feet to have a chance, but I missed it, 2-putt for birdie. Then No. 15 is another birdie, par 5. I use my 5-wood. I didn't hit it great, anyway, from the green, 25 feet, I think, 2-putt, birdie. That's it.

SE RI PAK: Playoff, I hit driver. I didn't hit it good, a little right. Right-hand side of the tree a little bit hanging -- the tree was still bothering me. So I was 138 left -- 138 to the pin, so I use my 8-iron, three-quarter shot; I make the lowball, and hit it like a little short to the pin. Just want to hold. What I do on 18 is perfectly what I want to do. I made what, five feet? I may be the putt and I won.

SE RI PAK: Yeah, I was happy to do that. Driver, tree is bothering me, it's not an easy shot. Green is pretty hard, and, you know, almost like shadow, farther, too. So pretty good. Maybe I miss the putt, I'm still happy, I think, but I got a great chance for a birdie.

SE RI PAK: I thought she make that. I thought she made it. I thought the ball is into the hole. I think, "Oh, great." She's pretty good that kind of shot, I think. I think going to another playoff, another hole. Short is what she made, and then I still have a chance.

SE RI PAK: I didn't think anything. Even the playoff, when we move to 18 tee, just feels like, just exciting; it's fun. It's fun city, fun golf course, fun tournament, and especially playoff, it's exciting. So everything is pretty much fun for me this week. I just -- I don't know why. I just feel whole week is so fun, exciting. Just happy. Then I hit a driver and everything is fun, tournament, even though I lost, I do my best anyway, all day, all week. Just having fun.

SE RI PAK: Oh, yeah. (Laughter). I have a chance, so I like that.

SE RI PAK: 20 is too much.

SE RI PAK: Yeah. It's true.

SE RI PAK: I guess, yeah. I think. Last year, I didn't even know -- when I'm hitting shot, I don't know where my ball goal goes. I just cannot trust that much. This year, hitting every shot, every hole, I can trust, you know, I have more confidence, I trust myself. I just want to hit when what I want to hit; feels great. And I learn many things from last year, the game. Learning more. And people I see more, I do by myself more. It's truth, growing, more good.

SE RI PAK: I need some break before the season start next year this time. Last year, I don't have any time. Right after I finish season, it's still so many things to do have to do, and I really don't have any time for me. You know, just never -- never rest, I think. But this year, off-season, I just want to go somewhere. Nobody knows. I just want to disappear somehow.

SE RI PAK: I don't know. That's why I say, nobody knows. I don't want to tell. (Laughter). Yeah, I just want to have some of my time. Just whole year, almost 11 months, non-stop. And I have one month to play and rest, to make sure I take some time for myself, and relax, have fun and play golf.

SE RI PAK: Playing just for fun, or, I don't know, I want to go -- I just want to do some fun thing. I want to go with my new friends on trip or some party every night (laughter), or to sleep all day, or, you know, non-stop eating; make sure it's not fat that much. Yeah, something else.

SE RI PAK: Yeah, I mean, first, second round, leading and after that, that's why it feels like every first round I'm leading, it feels like more better play. I feel more comfortable on golf course, no matter if I play practice or with practice putt or good go out shoot 6-under, 8-under. It feels like -- second is automatic comfortable, good tempo. Somehow if I miss shot, it feels like, you know, I can find it easily, quickly. That's why this week first two times I had great round; yesterday I got a little bit -- some hard times. Today especially, front nine, I had bad times, too, non-stop driving make me work. But even though I make bogey, with so many holes to go, it's okay just play, make the putt, and every hole I finish, hope every hole I finish is good. Birdie, I get out of that hole -- next year I come back, nobody see that, not anymore, right. Every hole, finished, done. 2nd hole, done. 3rd, done. That way it's good to play I think. Yeah, good finish today.

SE RI PAK: I want to be -- like men TOUR, PGA, before I even came here, before I started golf, I want to be Nick Faldo, because he has great swing, right; and I want to be Greg Norman because he is so strong player; and I want to be Nancy Lopez because of her personality. Everything is perfect if I'm like all of that. I'm still trying to play strong and I want to have good personality. I want people to think about me as not all the time player, person.

SE RI PAK: No. I mean, I have my dad or my mom, but otherwise, nope.

SE RI PAK: No, I think that time, I think, all day I miss -- I think it's kind of tempo. I mean, before the playoff, that hole, 18, second shot is great drive. It's perfect what I wanted to hit there. Then I think that time -- one thing is my tempo a little slower, fast, slow, good tempo. Last hole second shot is slow for me. That's why mine goes to the right side and short. The greens I knew is firm; so it's okay to hit it short, but at that time, hit it short, stop quick. It was about 25 feet, almost 30 feet, I think.

SE RI PAK: I feel pretty confident that hole. I got 8-iron that time. My caddie tells me that 138 -- usually, I hit 140 9-iron, but at the time I know -- hit it a little lower, make sure hit it -- hit the green and roll it up to the pin. Then I tell my caddie that I have to lighten up for me, make sure it's okay. So I'm aiming left side of pin. Green is -- putt is left-to-right, and so I pretty much -- needed three-quarter shot. So I line up, hit it perfect. I trust myself to hit it perfectly. You know , I didn't know I hit it perfect, but I didn't know how much it goes, you know.

SE RI PAK: No, she just -- me and her still on the golf course. We just play, fun, close to pin for five dollars. Can't play like that, you know. But she has great chance, but she's not have good luck, bad bounce, things like that. And last on 18, I know she's not happy, and I'm not happy, too. She almost gets there, but she always has bad luck, and I -- she just tell me, "Good round." And I said -- I didn't say anything. Just somehow I'm not that happy. And then we just say that -- I mean, I say that to her, just, you know second shot, "Put it in the hole." She said "Okay, okay." I said "Okay, next hole." And then before she said -- we just teeing up together. Hitting driver for her and me, almost like 30 yards I'm more longer than her. That's what we talk before. We start in the tee box, 1st hole, we say, close to the pin five, make the putt five, then keep the fairway, five. And I said "Long drive, five." She's, no, no, not long drive. On 18 hole she said to me that I'm not longer than her. She said, "lucky I didn't say that one yard is five dollars"; if each yard is five dollars, she just lost a lot of money. She's joking on the golf course. I know her. She's not happy. I don't know, after we finished, then I just make the score card and I know she's crying, you know, so I just so feel bad. And somehow in the playoff, I feel more strong because my friend, she's not play good, my best friend, anyway; so I just feel like if I win, maybe, you know, just more strong because for her. So I meet her later on.

SE RI PAK: It's not going to be easy. That's almost like 11 months nonstop. That's great, I think. I don't know that can be more lower than that. But actually, 11 months is so, so difficult. Last year is Annika, 69.99? That is great, anyway.

SE RI PAK: I've got one more with JcPenney's but otherwise, done.

SE RI PAK: Paul Azinger, I think.

SE RI PAK: Not impossible; possible. It feels like if I win two times a year, that must be good, too. First year is so good time, so good season: Two majors, two tournaments. But this year, if I won one or two, that's good enough. But I won four times again; so that is kind of -- I cannot believe sometimes.

SE RI PAK: Pretty good for four like that again. Laughter. Every year, four times win is pretty good, you know. (Laughter). I think I'm trying next year, too. I try to win two times and I get plus two -- next year, if I can win four times great. If not, two, and maybe I can finish in the Top-10 more of the time.

SE RI PAK: Did I say that?

SE RI PAK: Oh, yeah, I did, too. Oh, now I know. Because other time feels like I can do that. It feels like pretty close. I don't know why, just pretty close to get there, but just one hole or one day. You know, one shot play. That time I tell Tree like that, why not, I work hard play hard but not getting chances -- but that is only that time -- means I have to learn more. That's why I got my mind telling me I can do that, get close. "Now pretty close, you can do that." Give me more play pretty good, not pretty good, just play better.

SE RI PAK: Yes. Just happy this morning. Just feels like light, you know. Just practice the range, just normal and putting, practice. I hit it pretty firm going to the hole. And I play with Lorie; it feels just like practice round. That's why today, even though I had bad shot I still made pretty good finish, I think.

SE RI PAK: Yeah.

SE RI PAK: I knew at 11, I make up the birdie next hole I got great chance. I thought I made the putt already, you know, but it was -- yeah, so badly. And after that, it feels like I saw the scoreboard; it change so fast, I don't know how many seconds it keep changing, but at that time Karrie Webb was playing pretty good at that time. So maybe she's 11-under. Maybe, maybe not. I just keep trying harder and hard. I make the birdie at 10. Make the birdie at 11. Pretty good feeling after front nine. Feels like getting better; so I kept trying to hit it firm and kept trying to get closer to the pin; kept trying to hit the fairway; kept trying to try. Just kind of bad break all the time when I see totally different break for me. Then after 15, that is big putt, I think, for me, yeah. Tied for the lead, 12-under. Still, I've got a chance, but I didn't make any putts. So I know it's good to go to playoff. If not, still good.

SE RI PAK: Somehow for age, I think. We just, you know, young and pretty strong, our bodies and everything. We don't have anything -- nothing to worry -- nothing to lose anyway. This way, play hard and keep going in, practice hard no matter what. Later on, maybe I get more, maybe at that time, that's real golf, I think, just like short games, or like everything (inaudible) handle everything. Now I think because of age -- I think that's it, age is important.

SE RI PAK: I like her putting. Yeah, she's hitting pretty strongly. Feels like hitting very -- trusts herself a lot and hitting pretty confident. I like her putting style. Hit it, no matter what, hit it so far, so firm.

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