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SENIOR PGA CHAMPIONSHIP PRESENTED BY KITCHENAIDMay 24, 2015Jeff SlumanFRENCH LICK, INDIANA Q. 5-under through 13 today. Take me a little bit through the round as you were climbing up the leaderboard. JEFF SLUMAN: Well, I just started out and I just played excellent golf, which you have to do here at Pete Dye. And I hit a bunch of shots close, obviously cashed in on those. I made -- didn't make any really significantly lengthy putts out there, but I think through nine holes I hit every green, basically. So that probably doesn't happen very often. 10, 11, 12, 13, I hit it close, all the way through there. 12 and 13, I hit it in there two feet on both holes. So that got me to 5-under. Basically 14 all week's been a troublesome tee shot for me and it was again today. I hit it in the bunker and didn't really have anything. My feet were half in, half out of the bunker, I had no leverage, and I made five there. Then 15 essentially the same thing happened. I hit a nice drive down the middle and I was on an up slope, so I couldn't, I couldn't take the iron and kind of drive it in, I had to throw it way up in the air. It was close to being a real good shot. Hit the slope, rolled in the bunker and then my feet were way out of the bunker. So again I had no leverage, no ability to really hit enough on the ball and so I made bogey there. I birdied 17. I hit a terrible drive on 18. I got stuck against one of Pete's famous walls there. And hit a nice chip up there to probably eight feet for par and thought I made the putt and it didn't go in and I guess bottom line, 69, probably not a bad score today. Q. Did you notice yourself climbing up the leaderboard? JEFF SLUMAN: Well, yeah, I'm 5-under and then I got 1-under for the tournament, I know I'm certainly climbing the leaderboard. It's a tough golf course, and, you know, there's not going to be many people under par for the tournament, so, unless I'm a total idiot, I had to figure out at that point I was maybe play the last five holes 2-, or 3-under, maybe got an outside chance. But I certainly didn't do that. But the week's over, started out poorly, so, I guess if you would have asked me on the 13th tee, which would have been my fourth hole of the tournament on Thursday, would I take 1-over, I would have said yeah and I wouldn't have been, I didn't think I could shoot that at that point. But it was a long week, tough conditions, and looking at the leaderboard now, the best player's going to win. Typically that happens. FastScripts Transcript by ASAP Sports |
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