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OMEGA DUBAI LADIES MASTERSDecember 14, 2011Tandi CuninghamDUBAI, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES THE MODERATOR: Difficult last hole, but just overall reaction to the round. I mean 3‑under, you must be pretty happy. TANDI CUNINGHAM: I'm still happy. I feel like I put in a good day. I had some lucky birdies on the front nine. I hit the ball really well today. Just the last hole, a little oopsy on the last. I think I got excited a little bit excited there knowing that I was coming in, and a nice hole to make a birdie on the last, and maybe just tried to force it a bit, but overall, still happy with my day. Q. And talk about the three, when you were in the trees and the sand and you hit that shot. TANDI CUNINGHAM: Yeah. Q. What were you trying to achieve there? TANDI CUNINGHAM: Well, I hit my tee shot a bit left, caught the tree, dropped straight down, so I was trying to just recover it back into play, into the fairway, with the intention of laying up and hoping to wedge it close and having a chance of saving par so it didn't get worse. The recovery shot didn't quite make it all the way out. I had to play another recovery out as far as I could, and I had about 170 meters left to go in, so I thought, well, let's have a crack at it, and that one pitched on the green and rolled back down into the water. So yeah, what was a simple error ended up being quite a miss, to be honest, but tomorrow will be better. I'll probably birdie it. Q. Absolutely. I mean the fact the first 17 holes were so good must give you massive confidence for the rest of the tournament. TANDI CUNINGHAM: Absolutely. Absolutely, yes. Absolutely. Q. Tomorrow, what's your aim, to go out and shoot 6‑under? TANDI CUNINGHAM: No, my aim is to go out tomorrow and just keep doing what I was doing today, and that would be just fairways and greens, keep bogeys off the score card and hope a couple putts will drop. Q. Well, good luck. Thank you very much. TANDI CUNINGHAM: Thank you. Q. Obviously you were in contention until the final hole.  What happened? TANDI CUNINGHAM: Oh, yeah. Last hole, could I go back and do it again, please? I hit it a bit left off the tee, unfortunately. Caught the tree, dropped down to the sand, and my recovery shot didn't make it all the way out, so I had to recover again, then I had 170 meters into the flag, which I then took a hybrid and didn't quite hit it as well as I needed to, pitched on the other side, rolled back in, then proceeded to wedge it on and two‑putt for a lovely 8. But tomorrow I'm going to birdie it. Q. What were you thinking when you were walking up to the green? TANDI CUNINGHAM: I was like, oh, please just wake up and go back, tell me that I haven't teed off yet. But it's golf. You know, I think no one is immune to getting excited or to feeling a bit anxious at times, and I think that time I just needed to be a bit more calm. So yeah, I feel quite positive about my day still, definitely feel like I've walked away learning more and look forward to playing tomorrow. Q. Prior to that obviously you were having a great round. TANDI CUNINGHAM: Yeah. No, my day had been very solid. I had some lucky birdies on the opening few holes. I knocked in a great putt on the first hole from 35 feet, so started off guns blazing, and turned the front nine 3‑under, no drops, and then I just made a birdie on 16, 17. So 18 I was thinking, oh, one more birdie would be nice, and surprise, I got a little bit ahead of myself. But still good. Q. Does the 18th affect your confidence going into tomorrow? TANDI CUNINGHAM: No. No. I'll actually use that to fuel me to do more positive and more driven. I'll use it as a constructive drive. Q. Best of luck tomorrow. TANDI CUNINGHAM: Thank you very much. FastScripts Transcript by ASAP Sports |
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