THE MEMORIAL TOURNAMENT

June 5, 1999

David Duval

LEE PATTERSON: All right. Very, very nice round.

DAVID DUVAL: Thank you.

DAVID DUVAL: Don't really have any. (Laughing) .

DAVID DUVAL: No, I'm done. No, I had a good day. I was a bit disappointed. Every time I seemed to make a climb up the board, I did manage to fall back as well. You know, if I can stop doing that tomorrow, maybe I can catch up.

DAVID DUVAL: Yeah, 12, 15 feet. Something like that.

DAVID DUVAL: That wasn't a particularly nice lie. You get good ones and you get bad ones, so. I made a birdie on 15, hitting it into the trees and the trees kicked it out.

DAVID DUVAL: Decide I don't ever want to see it again. (Laughter.) I used an 8-iron. You know, I don't know what to tell you. I just chopped down on it, tried to scoot it up the hill. It worked. I didn't know if it would or not, but I had no other options. You know, I shot from there, if you're in the fairway, you can run a 3-iron even. But because of the way it was in the hole and then on top of another divot, I didn't think I could even do that. So, you know, it was a hit-and-see-what-happened. There was a real possibility that I would be hitting it again, or I might be over the green and really -- you know, I -- you know, making par, I'm very happy about it. I was trying not to make a 6.

DAVID DUVAL: Oh, yeah.

DAVID DUVAL: You know, it's hard to remember. I like to forget them. You know, we all get lies like that out here. It just happens. Other than that, you just go on. You can get some throughout the year.

DAVID DUVAL: It looked to me like somebody had taken a pretty good swing, it hit way up in the air, took a divot. And then took another one, I don't know if it was the same person. There was another one, another hole next to it. So there wasn't any -- it had to have been two divots, but they flowed together. It was just a big hole like this. Then it had a small divot that was kind of wedged down in there that they had put back in. My ball stuck down in between that and the rim of the -- the edge of the fairway. You know, I don't know what happened to make that.

DAVID DUVAL: You know, bad shots. Maybe a few bad breaks. But, you know, mostly when you're playing okay, it's bad shots as to why you make bogies.

DAVID DUVAL: They were tough. You know, you had to be on your toes all day. The wind really didn't cooperate very much. It seemed to turn around and switch sideways and then come back behind you and then you'd be into it. It really moved around a lot, it seemed to. So it made it very difficult.

DAVID DUVAL: Well, I would -- probably has been the hottest day so far. You know, tomorrow I guess it's supposed to be even a little hotter. I don't know if it's supposed to be windy or not. I hope so, as much as anything, so it cools it down a little bit. You know, but it's going to get, if the weather stays like it is, it's already really getting hard and fast, especially on the greens. Just going to get that much more difficult and you're going to have to hit very precise shots.

DAVID DUVAL: It's different. Probably, yeah. It seems like usually we're wearing rain suits and teeing it off. So, you know, yeah, your ball's hitting and stopping wherever it hits on the green. So it plays a little longer when it's like that, but this is certainly harder.

DAVID DUVAL: I don't think it favors anybody in particular as far as the first five players on the board. You can argue that it makes it easier to make up more ground because it's going to be playing more difficult. You can argue that if you're up front, you just hit some good shots, hang around par and you'll be okay. So I guess in my position, I prefer to say it's going to be easier to make up shots tomorrow. (Laughing).

DAVID DUVAL: I'm playing well. You know, I'm hitting it pretty well, putting pretty good. I'm doing everything pretty good. Not great right now. But, you know, if you do everything okay, you can manage usually. That's kind of what I've done so far.

DAVID DUVAL: I'll be at home.

DAVID DUVAL: Not during the week, no.

DAVID DUVAL: Maybe on Saturday.

DAVID DUVAL: Well, I hit it in the left fairway bunker and then I just hit a bad shot out of there. I tried to hit it out to the right, caught it a little heavy and it came up short in the bunker in the front left bunker, and I had -- well, you know, I had a lie that probably wasn't good enough to get it close to the hole. It was a tough, tough shot. You know, I just probably subconsciously made sure I didn't have to hit it again.

DAVID DUVAL: I wasn't even putting. I had to chip back from just -- I was just off the fringe in that first shot.

DAVID DUVAL: It doesn't matter. You're looking ahead, not back.

DAVID DUVAL: Well, I wasn't particularly pleased. (Laughter.)

DAVID DUVAL: Yeah, well, you know, it seems everybody wants to make a lot about how I play, my demeanor. And, you know, I'm sitting here telling you that, you know, that's just a hit-it-and-see-what-happens. I happened to pull it off. I don't think I could do any better than I did. There might be something to what you're asking me; I don't know. But the way I look at it is that it's right here, yeah, it's not very nice, my ball went there. But I can't move it, and so I can only, like I said, move forward now and that's just, you know, when you have that kind of thing, I'm trying to make sure I make 5 at worst all of a sudden now. And as much as anything, I'm thinking here you've done it again, you started going forward and now you're just falling back again. But it's just something -- there's a lot of luck involved with that.

DAVID DUVAL: I attempted to hit a 7-iron. (Laughter.) Should have been a 6.

DAVID DUVAL: Yeah, I hit it pretty well. It seemed to get up and shot up a little more, there was a little bit of a gust, maybe it was just the fact that it was kind of going up, the wind caught it and pulled it back.

DAVID DUVAL: I saw it hit and I didn't really -- I didn't know if it was high enough up where it might stay or go below the green, didn't have the momentum to keep coming way down. But, you know, it just kept going. That's what you usually expect to happen.

DAVID DUVAL: You know, when I got up over that little hill, I could only see the top half of my ball. I'm thinking oh, no, just please be a chunk of dirt behind it, a divot that I can move and that's what's obscuring the view of the ball. But that was not the case.

DAVID DUVAL: You know, I haven't. I would certainly embrace that if it did happen, but, you know, we need to go at it before you can even mention it. I think it's premature to even bring it up.

DAVID DUVAL: No.

DAVID DUVAL: No, no.

DAVID DUVAL: You can't listen to those guys. (Laughter.)

DAVID DUVAL: No. You know, I don't know. No. They're not even done. So it's hard to even speculate.

DAVID DUVAL: I hit 6-iron 20 feet behind the hole on 1. 3-putted the second. 3, I hit a 7-iron about 16 feet.

DAVID DUVAL: I birdied there, I hit a sand wedge out of the right rough about 20 feet right of the -- well, maybe a little more, maybe 25 feet. 9, I hit an 8-iron. I hit a flier out of the right rough into the left trees, and failed to get up-and-down. No. 10, I hit a pitching wedge to 4 feet. Bogeyed 11. You know, 11 I hit it left again, chipped out, across the fairway in the rough, laid up again, hit a sand wedge to 15 feet behind the hole and 2-putted. 14's next, is that right?

DAVID DUVAL: 14, I hit a sand wedge to about a foot. 15, I knocked a 3-iron on the green and 2-putted. 16, I hit a 6-iron about 7 feet. 17, we went over.

DAVID DUVAL: Yesterday. (Laughter.)

DAVID DUVAL: You know, yesterday I 3-putted. So -- and today I just, you know, hit a bad shot. Well, I hit a couple of them, bad tee shot and a bad second shot. Not a particularly great third one either, so... Nice chip for my fourth. (Laughter.) You know, it's just one of the holes. It's not like some mental block. I've actually played that hole very well in the past. It's just how it is.

DAVID DUVAL: Thank you.