Q. You've played this golf course before. Is there anything playing really different about it other than the yardage?
SERGIO GARCIA: Definitely. 9, I hit a 7-iron. I hit a great drive and I hit a 7-iron. Duffy Waldorf missed his drive a little bit and hit a 4-iron. That's a hole we're used to hitting sand wedges in. It was definitely a lot easier.
Then 6, it's not that big of a difference because now you hit the driver, you still hit sand wedge in, but it brings the bunkers more in play.
14 and 15 are huge differences. 14, we used to hit wedges into that green, too, and today I hit a great drive and I hit 7-iron to a front pin. If you get it to the back, you're almost hitting a 5-iron, and I'm not a short hitter.
Q. Do you like the changes that have been made?
SERGIO GARCIA: Definitely. It makes it a much better driving hole. You have to hit the driver off the tee. Before we used to hit 3-wood and a 5-iron. Now you have to hit a really good drive, and today I hit 4-iron, yesterday I hit 4-iron, too, but the first day I hit 2-iron. If you get a little breeze into the wind, you're hitting a 2- or a 3-iron into that green, and it makes it definitely a lot tougher.
Q. They moved the tee box on 15 to the front. Does that make it easier to be able to go for it?
SERGIO GARCIA: Well, I hit the same club I hit yesterday. It definitely gave us probably ten extra yards. I still would have been able to go for the green if the tee would have been farther back. Probably instead of hitting a cut 4, I probably would have hit a cut 3 or a big 4, so it didn't make a bit of a difference. But for some players they're still not going to be able to reach.
Q. (Inaudible).
SERGIO GARCIA: Well, I'm actually loving them. I think that golf is supposed to be tough, and you don't want to be -- I think some of the pins are really challenging. They're tough but they're fair. I mean, they're really close on some of the edges, but they're not in a big slope or anything that you can't stop the ball. I think the pins on the first round were very tough, were very nice and very tough, and yesterday were a bit easier, and today they were quite good, too. I think they're mainly quite challenging and that's a good thing.
Q. (Inaudible).
SERGIO GARCIA: We'll see. It all depends if the wind comes up a little bit and the weather is clearing up so the greens are going to get firmer, the fairways are going to get firmer. It's going to be tough to hit the fairways and greens, so it all depends.
It's a course that if you're hitting the ball well, you can score, but if you struggle a little bit, it can be really, really tough to get things going.
Q. Have you found your stride well enough to win tomorrow? Is your game consistent enough?
SERGIO GARCIA: I definitely think so. I need to get a bit more consistency with my putting, but it all depends what the winners finish at, but if I'm three or four shots back, I definitely think that there's a chance. I mean, I think I missed three greens in the last two days and I hit four or five -- I hit the par 5s in two and a par 4 in one, so the game is definitely there.
Q. What is the state of your putting? Are you trying new teachers?
SERGIO GARCIA: Not really. I've just been working quite hard for quite a while. The good thing is I have the -- the important thing is I have it set up. I'm not worried about that. I know my strokes are good. I like how the ball is rolling, it's rolling nicely. My setup is the right way. I'm aiming more or less where I want to. It just comes down to confidence, just trusting the line, trusting the putt and trusting the speed.
Q. You're your own putting coach or is your dad?
SERGIO GARCIA: My dad and my caddie have been helping quite a bit with some of these things.
JOAN v.T. ALEXANDER: Thank you, Sergio.
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