WEGMANS LPGA

June 11, 2000

Wendy Doolan

WENDY DOOLAN: I bogeyed No. 7. I hit 6-iron and I didn't hit my chip hard enough, and the putt was about 15 feet. I birdied No. 8, and I hit driver, 5-wood and I just had a chip about five yards off the front left of the green and got up-and-down. It was a short putt. It was about four feet. And No. 10, I had 170, I had 3-wood and I hit my wedge and I had 117 to about 10 feet and made it. And No. 11, I hit 5-wood, 7-wood, and then I hit a sand wedge 67 yards to about eight feet. No. 12, I hit 3-wood, and I had 98 yards to the pin, and I hit my wedge to about three feet. No. 13, I hit driver and I hit pitching wedge in the hole; it was 118 yards. Hit it behind the pin and it spun back into the hole. On 17, I hit driver, 5-wood into the right trap and got up-and-down out of the bunker. I made like a -- I guess it was about 15 feet.

WENDY DOOLAN: Yeah, you know yesterday was a tough day all around. The course was playing tough because of the wind, again, and nothing really happened for me yesterday, and today I just came out with the same thoughts as I had yesterday. But I got a couple of putts going in on the back nine and it just rolled on from there.

WENDY DOOLAN: To be honest with you, I had no idea what was going on on the scoreboard. I didn't look at the scoreboard until after I holed out on 18. I had no clue. None.

WENDY DOOLAN: Yeah.

WENDY DOOLAN: I think if we were in any danger, the play would have been stopped. I don't believe there was any lightning in the area, and that's really the only reason, unless the greens go under, and they didn't. So I didn't think we needed to stop.

WENDY DOOLAN: Golf doesn't stop because of rain. Golf stops because of lightning.

WENDY DOOLAN: If they have to squeegee to make it playable, that's within the rules, so that's okay.

WENDY DOOLAN: Honestly, my thought pattern was exactly the same as it's been since Thursday morning, I mean exactly the same. And just a couple putts dropped, and I guess it just went on from there.

WENDY DOOLAN: Actually, that was a really good number for me. 18, I played a 125 shot, and I knew that it would come back at least six yards, and, you know, it did. It went in. I never expected that. But after the hole before, I mean, the hole before, it spun back about 12 yards; so I knew that it would come back because of the slope.

WENDY DOOLAN: On 13, that was my pitching wedge.

WENDY DOOLAN: I'm sure somebody has got a picture. I mean, I was excited. I've only ever had one hole-in-one, and I can remember holing out from the fairway one other time.

WENDY DOOLAN: No, I didn't.

WENDY DOOLAN: For me, it's not a disadvantage. For me, my whole game plan is to go out there and hit the shots and try and make the putts. And it's not going to make a difference whether I have to -- I still have to hit the same shots and I still have to hit the same putts whether I'm five shots in front or five shots behind. As far as I'm concerned, I like to go and play, look at the leaderboard after the 18th, which is what I did today. Meg has played amazing golf this week and to shoot -- I believe she's 8-under at the moment, but she's played great golf this week, and, you know, she deserves it.

WENDY DOOLAN: Yes. I definitely was. I knew I had to give the putt a chance on 18, and I wasn't going to leave it short, but as far as score was concerned, I had no clue.

WENDY DOOLAN: You know, I mean, I did my best on every shot yesterday, too. And yesterday my best was 77 and today it was 66, and that's the way golf goes.

WENDY DOOLAN: No. I've just been working on the same things and everything seems to be getting better for me, which is -- it's a nice reward for hard work.

WENDY DOOLAN: The course actually played pretty much the same all week. There wasn't a lot of roll. The greens were relatively soft. As far as, it played -- the actual course played the same, but the conditions were different every day. It kept everybody thinking. You couldn't step up on the tee and just pull a club because you hit it the previous three days or anything like that. You had think about where the wind was. The wind was different; it was gusting every day. There wasn't much wind today, but we got the rain.

WENDY DOOLAN: For me, I just tried to take a little extra time to make sure I'm focused on my target.

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