GENUITY CHAMPIONSHIP

February 28, 2002

Ty Tryon

TY TRYON: I am real happy. I had a tough hole on 18, had a bad lie in the rough, it happened to me two times today.

Q. After the mayhem in Phoenix, are you feeling more comfortable?

TY TRYON: I felt a lot more comfortable. I felt much more confident.

Q. A change for you mentally?

TY TRYON: I am just trying to do what I used to do, kind of go out there and hit the ball. (Inaudible).

Q. (Inaudible)

TY TRYON: I birdied like three of the last four until 18, I hit a great drive -- I was hitting it good on the backside. I had such a bad lie in the rough, I had 9-iron. I laid up with a lob wedge (inaudible) then I laid up almost in the bunker again because the ball went nowhere. It was a tough hole. I had a great finish. I am excited for tomorrow.

Q. (Inaudible) on the rough you had problems on the 18?

TY TRYON: Yeah, I'd hit a great shot on the center. I'd be through the fairway, I couldn't even see my ball. I hit a lob wedge had like 95 yards to the hole, I hit it like 120 yards over the green. I got up and down.

Q. What hole was that?

TY TRYON: 15.

Q. Overall how would you judge your day?

TY TRYON: I had a pretty good day. I had a lot of fun. I am proud of myself the way I battled through it. I am excited too because I started hitting the ball really solid, hit a lot of good shots. (Inaudible).

Q. Kind of cool out there?

TY TRYON: Yeah, a little cool out there.

Q. (Inaudible)

TY TRYON: Actually on No. 3 I hit it in the water with a drive. I dropped -- like 185 yards away I had a drop in between two trees, like two palm trees in the rough. I hit this 5-iron, this saved my round, I think. After my drop I was 1-over. I hit it 185 through the trees like out of the rough over the water. That saved par somehow.

Q. 3rd hole you said?

TY TRYON: Yeah.

Q. You'd throw out that front nine, you'd be set?

TY TRYON: Yeah, I mean, experienced a lot on the front.

I thought I would be happy. I had an early tee time; for Miami I thought it would be hot. Just like Phoenix, but it didn't happen. It wasn't that cold. It wasn't that windy.

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