U.S. SENIOR OPEN CHAMPIONSHIP

July 1, 1994

Jim Albus

JIM ALBUS: I sat around and listened to my wife gripe. We just sat around and had a little lunch and tried to relax. It wasn't bad.

JIM ALBUS: Yeah, I got frustrated because I played pretty -- I had a lot of chances and couldn't get one in. I just couldn't squeeze one in. If I get it on the line, it was short. I hit it off to the side a couple of times, so it was frustrating and I had good honest chances on a lot of holes. But, then I finally snuck one in. I hit two nice shots just off the edge on 16 and hit a bad chip; had a simple little chip shot and hit it badly and holed the putt for the first one, that I holed all day.

JIM ALBUS: Well, I don't think it is a big deal. It is something that just makes the day a little less pleasant, that is all. But, I don't think it is a big deal. It is nice to have waited. I am glad that I don't have to do it. I think I would be up at that time anyway. I am an early riser, but it is nice to not have to come over and then go back and do your thing. You know, and it just, sort of, makes it not so nice. So I am sure Simon is pulling his teeth out, pulling his hair out.

JIM ALBUS: Yeah, I hit a bad chip shot about 18 feet, 19 feet on 16 and made it. And then hit it in about 12 feet on 17 made it. So I got my two big putts near the end, so I feel better about it.

JIM ALBUS: No, I think you have to be patient, so I don't get mad so much as I do -- maybe sometimes I get frustrated and impatient and start, you know, hitting them too hard, trying to make them so badly and then I have to talk to myself and I got my resident psychiatrist with me there, my son, you know, who is good at that, telling me to just be patient; and you see that nobody is doing real well. The other guys were screwing up too. Trevino missed a lot of little chances and so it is not just me and I just have to be patient, keep telling myself to be patient; you are in a good spot and they will fall, keep hitting them.

JIM ALBUS: No, I think that is good. I will putt a lot better if I have a good day; I can shoot a lower score and I am playing well, so that is, you know, it is not, at all. I think I would have been very frustrated if I hadn't snuck a couple of them in at the end; if it would have been a complete shutout, I would have really been frustrated but I got a couple in at the end and I am happy with that. So 69 is not so terrible out there.

JIM ALBUS: Yeah. Again, it was like yesterday. I didn't think it played hard at all. I think it probably was to our advantage playing yesterday in the morning when it was soft and then coming out in the afternoon and you know, having that downpour made it soft again. We probably had a little bit of, I think, an edge on the guys that played on the opposite time.