BUICK CLASSIC

June 8, 2000

Miguel Angel Jimenez

MIGUEL JIMENEZ: I wanted to play very well. I hit all the fairways today. I missed only one green. It's nice way to make the pars. That's all, I don't know else what you want.

MIGUEL JIMENEZ: I started on the 10th. Bogeyed 15. I hit driver, fairway, 3-iron and I made three putts there. I am used to the middle, hitting it there, and I hit a big slope and got the speed of the ball, and not easy putt. And then birdie on the 17th. I hit a driver, wedge. Then going to the 2nd, I hit a driver, wedge to five meters (18 feet). 3rd is driver, 8-iron, to foot and a half. 5th, par 5, driver, driver, approach, 3 1/2 meters (10 feet). Par 3, I hit just a U-wedge, four feet. And the 9th I took driver, 3-wood and two putts from eight meters (24 feet) maybe.

MIGUEL JIMENEZ: First time here on this course, yeah.

MIGUEL JIMENEZ: Well, we play in the -- we played 13 holes on Monday because we landed here on Sunday afternoon. We played before the Pro-Am. And then yesterday before the Pro-Am, after all the rain the day before, I play nine holes. The rest of the holes, I didn't play them on Monday.

MIGUEL JIMENEZ: Yeah, I played very well. I hit it -- I told you I hit all the fairways and this -- every time, it's right in the middle you know and I miss only one green.

MIGUEL JIMENEZ: It was at the 18th. And I hit the fairway and I missed my 3-wood and I get in the bunker. For the bunker I hit a very good one, pitch and roll down and make it. That's the only one green I missed today. But this is -- you cannot make all the putts, you know.

MIGUEL JIMENEZ: Well, if I sit here, the conditions of the course always is great conditions, and if I play -- it's all different with Europe, these things. It's very nice to be here and play here.

MIGUEL JIMENEZ: Well, it's always nice to play the week before a major when you come in for the U.S. Open or the Masters. It's always nice to play the week before. And it's three hours difference there, so it's better to have three than nine.

MIGUEL JIMENEZ: No. It's going to be the first time.

MIGUEL JIMENEZ: Yeah. I try a couple drivers. I hit them very, very straight. I don't know what happens tomorrow. Maybe tomorrow it starts to make like this (indicating left and right.)

MIGUEL JIMENEZ: I get excited, yes, because I hear a lot about this area, and I really like to be there next week.

MIGUEL JIMENEZ: Well, I don't know what you want me to talk about this, you know. How many Europeans played on the U.S. Open, 10 percent of the field, 5 percent of the field? The past years you take the average, it's nothing to talk about. If they have, 50 percent probably finish different winners. I think there's nothing to talk about this.

MIGUEL JIMENEZ: It's better you ask this question to him, you know. He's right on some things. I think we have to tell you -- the thing, I cannot speak for him, you know. But I think he probably don't get the -- what that he needed to be there, I don't know.

MIGUEL JIMENEZ: For myself? I think, you know I'm 36 years old now and I don't know if I'm going to come here or try to play here full time. I have my family, my friend, I've got two kids, and I am a family man, you know and I don't want to bring my family here. I'm very happy in the place where I live. And I like my family around. For me that's more important thing. I know he has a lot more money and a lot more to think about. For me the life is not only money. For me it is quality of life, some of the things also in the life.

MIGUEL JIMENEZ: It's a great golf course. It's nothing to be like -- AT&T, with the course, that you have to drive the ball very straight. The rough is -- the area is magnificent, you know, and supposed to play -- I would like to play, and then I will tell you more about the course. Anyway about the question before, I would like to play here if I were younger. For sure I would come to play here and try, for sure. The way they treat the professionals here is very, very nice and we probably need these things also in Europe.

MIGUEL JIMENEZ: Well, we hope so. Hope so. But we need to learn -- I think we will learn but we are not talking the things properly for it.

MIGUEL JIMENEZ: It's nice, you come here, you've got your car, always you've got information what there is around. The facilities, always beautiful conditions, the course setup, the course is fantastic always. And it's what you're looking for in professional, golf, you saw on TV and all of the world, beautiful facilities. I don't know, if they are blind there or they going to putt on -- but it's very nice.