Q. Have you done so well there?
LEE JANZEN: In the U.S. Open?
Q. Yes.
LEE JANZEN: Well, I didn't, until Baltrusol I hadn't made a cut in one and that sort of took the pressure off. It's like, I know something that the other guys don't know. It's not putting too much pressure on yourself, think of it as another tournament. Don't worry about the rough, hit it off the tee. The second you start steering the ball in the U.S. Open, you are going to end up in the rough a lot. You won't hit as many quality shots. You have to really, if can you put yourself at peace and forget that it's the U.S. Open, is really the best way to play it.
Q. Are you talking about low expectations as well then?
LEE JANZEN: Well, I'd say you prepare yourself in a way that you're ready to win, but go there without worrying about how you are going to finish. If you play well at a U.S. Open course, you can shoot 67 and you are going to beat a lot of guys. It's not the same as a weekly TOUR event where you have to do it every day. If you can do it once or twice at a U.S. Open have you a good chance of winning.
Q. Is it a good all around test or has it gotten away from that?
LEE JANZEN: I don't know how this year will be set up. I keep going back to Pinehurst, the lowest rough we ever had in the U.S. Open. They did studies on stroke average of guys who hit it out of the rough, and their stroke average was higher when they guy try to hit in the green than the right rough because they got it into more trouble. I think the imagination is going you grow rough so high you don't have a shot. All you can do is take a wedge and hack it out in the fairway.
Q. That seemed like it worked?
LEE JANZEN: Yes, I think you can use your imagination and mow courses in certain ways, if a guy wants to hit a ball out of a dry, hot rough, you got to hit a great shot or it's going to get into more trouble. It doesn't work on every single course. I think a Olympic club would be cool without any rough at all. You would be in the trees all day there.
Q. Talk about being comfortable over a shot, what's the biggest factor, you mention from the bruise on Ping-Pong, to the rough, what's the thing to overcome to be comfortable over a shot?
LEE JANZEN: You are talking about at a U.S. Open?
Q. Any tournament?
LEE JANZEN: Any time. You shouldn't make that a goal. You have to practice it over and over again. It took me years where I started feeling where I could swing freely on the golf course even after I won tournaments. I still went out there and pushed myself to really letting and play freely.
Q. When you start playing freely, do you play badly then?
LEE JANZEN: I think it makes you play better because you are more willing to try shots that you -- you can watch guys in practice rounds or at home practicing, guys hit all kinds of great shots and they are not willing to hit them in tournaments.
Q. One more question: Do you think if Tiger is playing well that he is tough to beat at a U.S. Open or at Augusta?
LEE JANZEN: I would say U.S. Open since that's our next tournament. I don't want to make him mad. He takes everything personal. I don't want to make him mad. I think Jordan tells him that, take everything personal and beat him.
Q. Assuming he is deaf, what would you say?
LEE JANZEN: I really think Augusta because it's the same course every year. The U.S. Open course change every year. There are probably certain U.S. Open courses he will excel at more than others. I don't think there is a course that he can't excel at.
JOAN vT ALEXANDER: Thanks, Lee, for joining us.
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