TAG RIDINGS: I actually started out off pretty shaky. I caught a flyer on the first hole and hit it over the back, made a 20 footer for par.
Got it up and down on the next two holes, missing the green there, as well.
No. 4, I hit a 4 iron from the fairway to short and right of the green, hit a nice little pitch up there to three feet. Made a nice 3 footer that had some serious break and grain involved. It's huge because it got me over the fact that I was rusty the first three holes.
And then I birdied the 8th, par 5, by hitting it in there about two feet from about 45 yards.
And No. 10, another par 5, hit it on the left side of the green, 2 putted from 50 feet. Nothing spectacular going on, but just playing solid.
I finally made a putt on 11 from 16 feet.
14 was the next birdie. It was a par 5. I got a bunker shot to about three feet.
Bogeyed the next hole, the par 3.
Then on 16 and 17, made similar putts to the one I just missed for par, for birdie, and got those shots back.
And 18 was quite interesting. I had the sun right in my eyes, obviously, on the tee shot and the second shot, but more so I had to lay up in front of the green, and the pitch shot became increasingly difficult with the sun just blinding there, but somehow got it up there about three feet and tapped it in.
Q. Is Tag a family name?
TAG RIDINGS: No, not my family, but it's an English last name. My mom just read it in a novel and liked it.
Q. Do you know what novel exactly?
TAG RIDINGS: Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand.
Q. Is that in the media guide?
JOAN v.T. ALEXANDER: It will be now.
TAG RIDINGS: I don't know. I've said it before.
JOAN v.T. ALEXANDER: Thank you, very much.
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