WGC AMERICAN EXPRESS CHAMPIONSHIP

November 6, 1999

Miguel Angel Jimenez

MIGUEL ANGEL JIMENEZ: The details of my round: Third hole, birdie, 7-iron, and 5-meters putt from just the edge of the green. Birdied the 5th, 2-iron, sand wedge, 4-meters putt. Birdied the 6th with 9-iron and one-and-a-half, two-meters putt. Bogeyed the 7th with a driver, 7-iron and 3-putts from seven meters. Birdied the 9th with a driver, sand wedge and one-meter putt. Bogeyed the 18th with driver, 9-iron and 3-putts from seven, eight meters. I played quite well and I have been hitting the ball well. I missed my second shot on the 16th, but I had a very good approach and I nearly holed it. On the 13th I went to the left and then a very good approach and two-meters putt. I had birdie chances on the first hole, I was four meters from the pin. On the 8th hole I was three-and-a-half meters. At 11, the par-5, I also had a birdie chance. At the 12th, I was three meters to the right of the hole. At the 15th, I had a very good putt, 8 meters, and it didn't go in. But I really have been playing pretty well. I've done two greens with 3-putts, and those have been my two bogeys. Let's see if tomorrow I can have a bit more luck and have a good day again.

MIGUEL ANGEL JIMENEZ: Well, obviously I think almost all the people know the course very well now. And you have to hit the fairways. If you don't, it's very difficult to get on the green in the second shot.

MIGUEL ANGEL JIMENEZ: (Answer was translated.) He asked how he felt leading the tournament, he said it is a long time before I started the last round being the leader. I'm not nervous. I'm quite comfortable. I feel well. Tomorrow we'll see, but don't you ask me that before I tee off, because I'm not going to answer. Let's see if I can have a little bit more luck tomorrow and have a good round.

MIGUEL ANGEL JIMENEZ: (Answer was translated.) He was asked what happened at the 18th hole. His second shot and his first putt. He said I had a very good tee off, and a good second shot, but when I was on the green I read the green quite well, and I just went for the flag. I wanted to hole that putt. And I left me a very complicated putt of one-and-a-half meters. But those things happen. I tried to finish with a birdie, not just for me, but because of all the spectators.

MIGUEL ANGEL JIMENEZ: (Answer was translated.) He was asked about how is he going to sleep tonight; is he going to have a good rest. He said tonight I'm going to sleep as a pork, in a muddy and dirty place. And he said I'm feeling very well. He's going to go out for dinner with Montse, his wife. I'm going to have some fish and then nothing else. I'm just going to sleep very well and have good thoughts.

MIGUEL ANGEL JIMENEZ: (Answer was translated.) He was asked if he's going to play aggressive tomorrow. He said, well, tomorrow I think I'll just go out, have it in mind, I'm coming from behind, that I'm not leading the tournament, so that I can keep my tactic on the golf course. And when I come from behind I always try to attack. But if I have a bad round, nothing will happen.

MIGUEL ANGEL JIMENEZ: (Answer was translated.) He was asked about the names just behind him, one shot. He says I don't fear anybody. I'll just play my own game and that's it. I'll play my own, and nothing else. I don't mind what the others do, I'll just play my game. And I don't fear anybody. I have been saying that for a long time, that I have 14 clubs in my bag, but anyway, here, there are all very, very good players, I cannot say that this one is better than the other one. They are very, very good players. This is a complicated week, and this golf course, it's not easy, it's a very demanding one. But all the players are very, very good.

MIGUEL ANGEL JIMENEZ: It's always important to know the course and to know where you play. But the people here look on the golf course and also know. It's important also to know the wind, from where it's from. Because sometimes you cannot feel exactly where it's coming. It's very important that you know that. But it's important to know the course, yeah. Anyway, I say the same thing on this golf course, you have to hit the fairways. That's more important than anything. If you don't hit the fairways, it's difficult to make a low score on this course.

MIGUEL ANGEL JIMENEZ: I am a friend of everybody. I know the people, and we are good friends. They know me from when I was born. They are very happy to see me doing well in golf. And I'm very happy to see my friends around here to come to see me on the golf course and support me. And I feel like I have big support and I'm happy that they're doing this.