WGC ANDERSEN CONSULTING MATCH PLAY CHAMPIONSHIP

February 24, 2000

Sergio Garcia

SERGIO GARCIA: I can tell you I feel much better than yesterday. I played real well today, I played some great golf. And Mike missed a couple of short putts on the first three and that gave me a lot of confidence. And after that I had a good momentum going on on 6, 7, 8 and 9 with four birdies in a row. And of course now with a birdie on 12.

SERGIO GARCIA: Yes, it's always great to play that kind of golf and hit in close and making the putts. So you never know what's going to happen tomorrow, but of course I'll be more confident tomorrow than I probably was the first day.

SERGIO GARCIA: It was a regular round, but I played really well the second and the third round in Australia. I played really well, I even shot I think it was four and 5-under, I should have shot less than that. But probably, yeah, I would say it was the best, but not by much.

SERGIO GARCIA: This round?

SERGIO GARCIA: Well, everything went pretty well. I hit the driver really well, just missed a couple of ones. I hit pretty good iron shots, too. And I made a couple of good putts and that's what you need to shoot your rounds. You can play really well, but you have to make some putts.

SERGIO GARCIA: No, just the normal way. Sometimes you do it and sometimes you don't. So what do you do? You try your best.

SERGIO GARCIA: Has he already won?

SERGIO GARCIA: Well, if he wins, okay. If he doesn't, then I'm excited to play with Tim.

SERGIO GARCIA: I've always said that the poa annua if it's dry and fast it's probably one of the best greens you can play. But if it's wet, it's difficult because you can see a lot of footprints. Sometimes you just have to go there and trust your stroke and let's hope that it doesn't kick the wrong way. But it's tough because you can have a 4-footer and see a couple of footprints and start thinking, well, is it going to kick right, is it going to kick left. So you just have to trust your stroke, and hope that it goes in the hole.

SERGIO GARCIA: Right now I'm in the MCI. So I don't know what I'm going to do. But right now I'm going to play the MCI.

SERGIO GARCIA: No.

SERGIO GARCIA: No.

SERGIO GARCIA: I don't know, it depends. I'll talk to him. After talking to him I'll decide. But right now I'm not in there.

SERGIO GARCIA: Yesterday after 12 holes I was 1-under, and today I was six under, so that's a big difference. And I don't know, it was easier to score today, the weather was better, there was a little wind, but yesterday it was pretty awful with the rain and the strong winds we had. But I just made more putts today and hit them closer. I hit some breaking shots and, well, that was the biggest difference. But of course I made a couple more putts and that gave me a lot of confidence

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