THE MEMORIAL TOURNAMENT

June 4, 1999

Jim Furyk

JIM FURYK: I'm obviously happy with the round I played today. I played a good, solid round. No bogeys, five birdies. Looks like a few guys are trying to run, but I kept myself in there today with a good round.

JIM FURYK: Do we have a stop watch on this one? (Laughing).

JIM FURYK: No, not really. I saw it was Lee and Vijay for a little while. On 18 it looked like Vijay made a double somewhere and Tiger made a bunch of birdies. Lee might have been 11. But not really. They dictate how the tournament's going to play. You know, if they keep playing well on the weekend, no one's really gonna catch them. If they fall a little bit or stay where they are, they give the rest of us a chance to catch up. It was good playing though, for two days.

JIM FURYK: I didn't really make any long putts. I think I just kind of kept the mistakes to a minimum today, and I really didn't do anything wrong yesterday. I just didn't really get the ball in the hole that well. A few putts didn't go in here and there. I think I might have hit the ball slightly better today, putted slightly better. Just really just scoring, I really didn't feel like my game was bad or I really did anything poorly yesterday, the ball didn't go in the hole yesterday.

JIM FURYK: No. I got, like, the longest putt I made was about 20 feet today. That was 7. 15-footer on 3, 20-footer on 7. I had it 3 feet on 10 and 2 feet on 18. Maybe about 10 feet on 15. So they're all reasonably short putts.

JIM FURYK: 3-wood, 6-iron.

JIM FURYK: Faster or harder?

JIM FURYK: Early on, I don't think that the golf course playing at 9 o'clock this morning, it was very damp. The first couple holes played very long. But as the day went on, especially for my last, I'll say, four or five holes -- first of all, the newer greens out here are much firmer than the old greens like on the front nine. Once you hit 9, 10, 11, the ball hits and releases, you really don't put much spin on the ball. It wasn't until we got to about 15 that we realized that those greens, the old greens, had also dried out and got firmer than what they were early this morning. Especially the last couple -- 17 and 18 were pretty crusty as far as they're dried out, very firm. It's going to be hard to stop the ball pretty close to those pins. 17, I was surprised how much our balls released.

JIM FURYK: It's a good, solid golf course. It's not one that, you know, if you get a little impatient, start firing flags and trying to make a bunch of birdies, you can hit it spots out here where you just get yourself in trouble. You end up going the opposite way. So I don't think you can really worry about what those three guys are doing; you just have to play the golf course the best you can and play your own game. There's a way for everyone to play the golf course well, so, you know, for me, I want to play the golf course the way I can get the least amount of strokes. If start firing flags out here, you get yourself in some bad positions.

JIM FURYK: All right.