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VALERO TEXAS OPEN

September 25, 2003

Aaron Baddeley

SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS

JOAN v.T. ALEXANDER: Thank you, Aaron, for joining us for a few minutes in the media center. Great round today. 8 under par 62. You had a chance to go really low there. You were 8 under par through 11 holes with birdies on seven out of eight holes. Talk about your day a little bit. Talk about how you had it going for as while and we'll go into questions.

AARON BADDELEY: I got off to a good start. It was still pretty dark out. I drove it well today. That was key. If I can drive it well, then I usually shoot a good score. I drove it in the fairway a lot and hit a lot of good shots. I love bermuda. I can roll it great on bermuda. I had good putts that were going in. And then there were a couple of tough holes. No. 4, the par 3, it's a long par 3, 5 irons and 6 irons in there. There are a couple of tough holes in there. And then down the stretch I would be lying if I didn't think of 59. There was definitely a chance. When I birdied 7, I thought get it in the fairway on the next. I hit a bad tee shot there and made bogey. Overall it was pretty good, I was happy.

Q. Can you talk about on the front nine, your second nine today? The shot started straying just a little bit. Go through the dynamics of how that happens. Is it because you're thinking 59 subliminally? Is it pushing at all?

AARON BADDELEY: I wanted pushing at all. Even on the back side, like when I missed a couple of the greens, I wasn't aiming at the pins I was aiming to the right, to the fat side of the pin to give me 15 feet. I knew I was putting great, so to just to give me an opportunity, there's every chance I'm going to hole it. It's something I'm working on. On my take away, it was a pull shot. No big drama.

Q. When you tore your ankle up and during the rehab when you get away from golf for a while, what does that do for you? Even though it was not that late in the year, what does that do for you?

AARON BADDELEY: How do you mean?

Q. To get away from golf, unexpectedly, it's kind of a jarring little vacation. You said it was a very positive one for you.

AARON BADDELEY: It was good because I went back to Australia, got to read a lot, grow my faith. I spent time reading the Bible and learning more about that, gaining knowledge there and those sort of things. I went back to Australia, like I said. I got a chance to catch up with my family and mates back there, and spoke at my church back there. It was great. I can see how people get used to doing nothing, but then after a while, you wake up and think today, what's there to do? Nothing. Gee, let's get back out on the road. It was good, but I would have liked to have kept playing.

Q. When did 59 first cross your mind today? When did you start thinking about that?

AARON BADDELEY: I stopped thinking about it after my bogey on 8, because I couldn't do it. I guess after I made - somewhere when I was 8 under.

JOAN v.T. ALEXANDER: The birdie on two?

AARON BADDELEY: Sort of around there, yes.

Q. On 1, you hit the low line drive into the tree, it bounced....