Q. Was there match dialogue between you and Padraig as you were playing your round?
JAY HAAS: Not a whole lot. I guess with twosomes one guy hits and when the second guy is hitting the other one is gone in the fairway. Our balls weren't that close together. A little conversation, but we were both -- on a day like today it's not a walk in the park, and so it's -- we were nose to the grindstone and all that stuff. We didn't have a lot of conversation but it was a very cordial round. We were both pretty excited about our finish in the scoring trailer there.
Q. As the round went, in fact, it was a pretty fair finish, wasn't it?
JAY HAAS: I think so. We both hit a few that we didn't like but hit some good ones, too. To end up like we did there, that was fine with me.
Q. How much does getting in the Masters soften the disappointment?
JAY HAAS: It does, but I just think the fact that I keep accomplishing some of my goals here, it makes it a little bit better. I don't think -- I obviously didn't want to make those bogeys on 15 and 16, but as I look back on the week I'll feel that that's definitely another bonus to the week, to be going in there one more time.
Q. As well as you're playing are you making long-range plans to stay on this Tour?
JAY HAAS: I haven't really given it much thought. A lot of people have asked me what I will do next year. I said the other day I would think I'd play the majority of my golf on the Champions Tour next year. But again, it's still early in the year. It kind of depends on how I finish. I'm having the time of my life right now. I don't want to think too far ahead.
Q. Talk about your previous Masters. Have you been playing this well going into any one of them?
JAY HAAS: Oh, actually one year I led the money list early in the year. In '88 I guess I won the Hope and finished second at San Diego and I was maybe in the top three or four money winners going in there and I missed the cut. That doesn't seem to make a difference to me. Usually when I got there I start feeling good about my game. I love hitting balls on the range there. The turf is so great. Just the whole atmosphere gets me pumped up - the first major of the year, the history, you name it. There's 50 different things that get me excited about being there. This is maybe as consistent as I've played prior to the Masters.
Q. In view of all the outside activities that may go on there this year, does that concern you?
JAY HAAS: I guess not, no. I'm probably like, what, 85 percent of Americans that -- I can't say don't care, but I guess I don't feel like my opinion one way or the other means a whole lot in that matter. You know, probably in hindsight they may do things differently, but it is what it is.
JOAN vT ALEXANDER: Jay, can we go through your round.
JAY HAAS: I birdied 2, two-putted from the front fringe from about 50 feet or so, bogeyed 6, and I had some mud on my ball, came up short of the green, pitched to about ten feet, missed that putt.
11, hit a good 3-wood up in the greenside bunker, blasted out to about 12 feet, made that.
13, 7-iron to about three feet.
15, drove it in the left rough, trying to play as a matter of fact, laid out, missed the green, terrible lie, pitched it to about ten feet and made it for an unbelievable bogey.
Then 16, drove right in the water, dropped, 7-iron about 25 feet, two putted for bogey.
JOAN vT ALEXANDER: Thank you, Jay, for joining us.
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