U.S. SENIOR OPEN CHAMPIONSHIP

June 29, 2000

Hubert Green

HUBERT GREEN: I told my wife last night that I was hitting the golf ball pretty solid. If I putted half decently, I might have a good round today. But the U.S. Open is not exactly your average fistfight. It is a pretty tough game out there, and the golf course is very severe. We are very lucky, though that it stayed overcast. The greens didn't get as fast as they could get and will get. They are a little softer than they normally are, but I am sure you guys will take care of that before the week's out.

HUBERT GREEN: I mean, I have been hitting the golf ball this year a lot better than I have in the past. Much more solid from tee-to-green. Just continue doing it; hitting the ball on the club face. That is what the face is made for, to hit the ball straight. Been a long time since I have done that.

HUBERT GREEN: I birdied the first hole, sand wedge, about 8 or 10 feet; made the putt for birdie. I birdied No. 4, 6-iron about 10 feet behind the hole; made the putt for birdie. I birdied No. 6, sand wedge there about 20 feet, 25 feet; made the putt for birdie. Birdied No. 11, the par 3. Hit 18 plus Orlimar sort of a -- I don't know what it is, I don't carry 2-iron anymore because I am an old man, so it is the next club in my bag. About three feet, made the putt for birdie. I birdied No. 15, hit sand wedge about six feet, seven feet; made the putt for birdie. 16, 9-iron about five feet; made the putt for birdie.

HUBERT GREEN: Got up-and-down on No. 13. Hit a bad drive, but stayed in the fairway. Terrible 3-iron, short of the green, pitched up about three or four inches from the hole.

HUBERT GREEN: No, I am too old for that. Used to playing one shot at a time, see what happens. We will count them all when we get through playing them. If you start making your press interview on the 6th green, you are going to be in deep trouble. I know. I have tried it before.

HUBERT GREEN: Always is. Course will dry out as they want it to. I am sure they can get these greens as firm as they want to get them. It is not their first rodeo out there. They will find a way to do it if they want to.

HUBERT GREEN: My wife claims it is her because I got married in November. I am hitting -- worked on few things -- hitting the ball more solid. The reason I have not played well in the Open, this golf course is a course like in Chicago where I had a half decent tournament there. It's a fine golf course. I love the atmosphere. I love this kind of course. The other courses weren't quite as favorable.

HUBERT GREEN: I hit the ball good today. Me hitting 16 greens in regulation, that is a new world record for Hubert Green almost. My greens in regulation stats on the record Tour is not as near as good as this was. Hitting the ball -- hitting that many birdie putts is much more fun.

HUBERT GREEN: Don't bring that up. Listen, I tell folks I never had a job in my life. They don't believe I worked at one time. Been so long I work for Merion, I don't remember. It is a senior moment to go back that far.

HUBERT GREEN: Sets up well, period. It is a very fair golf course. The fairways are sufficiently wide; aren't too narrow, rough is severe. It's a very, very great setup golf course. It is nice to see that. It is not tricked up. It is not too funky here and there. Basic good golf course. It's set up the right way. You got a great golf course and great setup by the U.S. so it makes it a fine tournament.

HUBERT GREEN: Not much except there was a creek on the 17th hole. Got my ball into that a couple of times; that is about it.

HUBERT GREEN: It is a different kind of a golf course. This golf course is -- this is the Open, it is a little more difficult to -- I had butterflies . I was talking to my caddie and said that I hadn't been this nervous in a long time on the first fairway. It's a great feeling to get those butterflies jumping around in your stomach again.

HUBERT GREEN: I am not a doctor. I just know what I felt.

HUBERT GREEN: Don't worry about it 'til the next hole; then keep on playing.

HUBERT GREEN: I don't know. You have to ask her. I am doing it the same way. The scores have been better.

HUBERT GREEN: Michelle. Also I am on the policy board. That could have an effect too.

HUBERT GREEN: You get them all the time, but only on the first hole of the golf tournament - no, it is too early yet. You got to get in competition first, felt good.