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ABERDEEN ASSET MANAGEMENT SCOTTISH OPENJuly 10, 2014Luke DonaldABERDEEN, SCOTLAND Q. What are your thoughts on 4‑under par to start this championship? LUKE DONALD: Yeah. Really solid start. Anytime you go bogey free it's always a good solid round. This course isn't that long, but it's two hops, this course, and the Front 9 plays pretty‑‑ today into the wind played tricky. But I hit a lot of good solid shots into the wind, and then coming home you have some opportunities if you can keep it in play. You're hitting a lot of short clubs into some of these greens. But very happy with my score. I think certainly it wasn't easy, and to be bogey free was satisfying. Q. We're sheltered here, but I take it it's pretty awkward at times out there. LUKE DONALD: Yeah. Just examples, the fourth hole, I think, had 170 yards and hit 5‑iron, didn't quite catch it and I was 10 yards short of the pin. So 160 yards. And then 8th hole is 148 yards and I hit sand wedge downwind. So you know, it's strong enough out there to make it interesting and to make it tricky. Q. As it's a new course for us, how does it compare to some of the more well‑known links courses? LUKE DONALD: I think this is a gem, you know, one of the oldest courses in the world. It's a little bit of too hot. Again, the Front 9 is in the dunes, and you know, it's a really well‑done links. I think it has a lot of very good holes, you know, a lot of strategy involved, and I think it's up there with some of my favorites. Q. You tend to relish the strategy and the Scottish Open, don't you? LUKE DONALD: I've done reasonably well around here. Different courses, Loch Lomond I played well and obviously had a lot of success at Castle Stuart. This is more of a true links course and it's nice to shoot a good round and hopefully a few more this week, get me some momentum going into the next week. Q. Where is the balance between preparation and competition? LUKE DONALD: It's still, it's competition, starting Thursday I'm here to try and win this tournament. I had three weeks off. That was really the preparation. So it's nice to see the preparation come in and I shot 67 today. So all things heading in the right direction. Q. And explain the orange shirt. LUKE DONALD: No. I was actually by accident. Yeah, he was wearing Argentina blue and I was wearing Holland orange, so I was hoping to bring a smile to his face, but yeah, I don't think it helped. FastScripts Transcript by ASAP Sports |
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