PGA GRAND SLAM OF GOLF

November 27, 2002

Rich Beem

Justin Leonard

Davis Love III

Tiger Woods

TIGER WOODS: I enjoyed it. I really played well today. I hit just a lot of good shots. And starting out, I did exactly what you need to do when you have a three-shot lead; I needed to go out there and play a good, solid front nine and I just got on a roll. It just kept going. Making shots, aiming at my spots, and I was knocking down my putts. It's a lot of fun when everything works like that.

TIGER WOODS: No. 1, I hit a driver and a pitching wedge up there to about 18 feet and made that. 2, I hit driver and a 9-iron in the bunker. Blasted out to about a foot. 5, I hit driver just short of the green and pitched it up there with a 9-iron to about six feet and made that. 6, I hit driver, driver on the right of the green and 2-putted from about 50 feet. 7, I hit an 8-iron up there to, oh, about ten feet behind the hole. Made that. 8, I hit a driver just short of the green and pitched up there with a sand wedge to about a foot. 12, I hit a driver and a 60-degree sand wedge long to about 20 feet and made that. 13, I hit a 3-wood off the tee and a 9-iron to about a foot.

RICH BEEM: That shot was ridiculously so good, you can't even believe it. I just sat there, "There's no way." That was ridiculously good there, so -- sorry. (Laughter.)

TIGER WOODS: 15, I hit a 2-iron off the tee and a 6-iron up there to about six feet behind the hole. 16, I hit a driver and a 5-iron up there to about 18 feet and made that. On 18, I hit a driver and a 2-iron and 2-putted from about 40 feet.

JUSTIN LEONARD: I hit the ball pretty good, not as well as I did yesterday. I think I read maybe two putts correctly all day and on those two putts, I hit probably the worst two putts I hit. So I'm glad -- I love Kauai, don't get me wrong, but I'm glad I'm not playing the golf course again tomorrow. That doesn't mean I don't want to come back and I hope to next year. A little frustrating the last couple of days, but still, great to be here. It's great to play. It's great to be part of playing with these three guys. It's a real honor and privilege. I had a great time and hopefully get to come back soon.

RICH BEEM: Another Top-5. (Laughter.) I'm just glad I was part of it today so I could watch Tiger shoot 61. That was the highlight of my day. (Laughing). No, I didn't play, obviously, good at all. I started off good, though, birdied 1 and 2 and really thought I was going to do something from there. Then after I hit the tee shot in the water on 7, that was my slow demise from there on in. Just don't have anything bad to say about my game; I just didn't play very good this week, and that happens. But it was a lot of fun being out there this week, and I am looking forward to getting some rest and relaxation before Tiger's event next week. It's going to be a lot of fun, as well.

DAVIS LOVE III: Well, didn't play very well again today. Enjoyed watching Tiger's round. It was one of the better rounds I've seen in a long time. Hopefully get another shot at playing with him next time.

TIGER WOODS: I was really playing one shot at a time. The reason I was pondering was just whether to lay back or not on front pin, that was it. It wasn't that I was thinking, okay, it's time to put down the hammer. I wasn't thinking about that at all. I was just playing one shot at a time, trying to give myself the best chance at making birdies. I felt like the driver was the best play there. That's why it just took me a while to decide.

RICH BEEM: They made me play all 18. I would have been more than happy to pick my ball after 14 and just walked right in. (Laughing). Yeah, what a phenomenal round Tiger played, and it was a lot of fun watching him. It's amazing how when somebody gets on a roll like he got on today, how fun it is to watch somebody, because everything that they do just clicks. The golf ball was just going right at the target all day. It was a lot of fun to watch. Me, on the other hand, it was, boy, I feel sorry for these guys. I can't believe Tiger shot 61 watching how I hit it, holy cow. That's how it goes some days: Some days you're the windshield and some days you're the bug.

TIGER WOODS: I played better this one. I really can't mis-hit a shot today. Every shot I hit right in the middle of the face. On top of that, you're playing under some windy conditions and the greens were pretty grainy, not easy to putt. But those other two 61s, I think the one at Firestone, obviously that's a much for difficult golf course, but still, I was 9-under par.

TIGER WOODS: Comfortably. (Laughter.) The one in 2000 was really cool because obviously it took a pretty special finish just to get into a playoff, and then to duplicate it again in the playoff, it was just two carbon copy shots right in the same spot and made the same putt.

TIGER WOODS: The putt I missed at 3, I really hit a good putt. It just didn't decide to go in. The putt that I hit at 9 was just short. I didn't hit it hard enough; I hit it right on-line. The other par on 4, it wasn't close.

TIGER WOODS: Maybe a little bit more than that.

TIGER WOODS: I never thought about it. I just thought about playing it one shot at a time. When you start going low like that, you don't really think of numbers like that. You just get into the rhythm of the round and get into a rhythm of trying to place your ball in a certain spot and give yourself the best chance at making birdies. Even the time I shot 59 at home at Isleworth, it never really entered my mind until the last hole when I had about a 3-footer for par, "Oh, I have a chance." Otherwise you get so involved with the process of trying to place the ball where you need to place it.

DAVIS LOVE III: Yeah, the old wedge is back in, which I have a bunch of copies of them at home. So I just need to work those in. I didn't find much. I'm hitting the ball great on the range. I'm just not playing well on the golf course. Maybe a little bit rusty and maybe a little bit, you know, when you get a couple of strokes behind start pushing too hard in a two-round event. I think, no excuse, but I think that's what happened to me yesterday. Getting two, three, four behind -- when you get ten behind, you can give up. It was not the way I wanted to play, and I'm looking forward to -- again, looking forward to playing next week and hopefully getting it going a little better.

TIGER WOODS: I was surprised at a couple of shots I hit out there today, yeah. The one that Beemer was saying over there on 13, I was just trying to hit a little 9-iron, trying to hold it back against the wind. And usually when you do that, you either upshoot it or the safe side, going to pull it, but I hit it absolutely perfect, the way I wanted to; I held it back with a little cut 9-iron. That's when you know things are going right. Your timing is right, the club is coming down in front of me and it was just a of fun.

TIGER WOODS: I had 180 to the hole and I hit just a little soft 6-iron. Kind of cut it back against the wind. The wind actually switched and came back. I just hit a nice little soft cut.

JUSTIN LEONARD: You know what, it probably would not matter either way. It doesn't pump me up or anything, now that my year is officially over. I have a couple of fun rounds next week and I am going to take about three weeks off. You know, I think the only way it may affect me is really in the weight room. I will work on my game by working out. But, you know, I'm looking forward to the next, whatever it is, six weeks, and I'm certainly not tired by any means, but it just means I'm going to be that much fresher and ready to get after it in January.

TIGER WOODS: 69 and 15.

RICH BEEM: 61 and 8.

DAVIS LOVE III: 60 and three. I made one a couple of weeks ago. I'm on a roll.

JUSTIN LEONARD: 62 and one. I made it at Disney this year.

TIGER WOODS: I've got most of the hard work out of the way of rebuilding. Now it's just tweaking here and there. I'm very happy with the work I've done over the last few years of getting my club on plane and being more consistent that way. You know, I've spent a lot of hours hitting balls, trying to get the club on plane and then the hard part is going out there and trusting it in competition. But I've put in some good work, and it's paid off. Now it's just changing things here and there, just little tinkering, because things get off, as we all know. We all play golf, and things get off here and there, and just got to put it back. But the overall package is what it was in '97.

RICH BEEM: Come on, take a few months off. Go work on it some more. We won't mind.