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U.S. SENIOR OPEN CHAMPIONSHIPJuly 15, 2012Fred FunkLAKE ORION, MICHIGAN THE MODERATOR: Ladies and gentlemen, Fred Funk has joined us in the Media Center. Fred is the 2009 Senior Open Champion. He's the 2008 runner‑up. Posted final round 3 under today, 8 for the championship. Fred, another top ten finish. What a great round today. Great charge. FRED FUNK: It was fun to get in the mix. I didn't really expect Bernhard to come backwards. I saw he was 2 over pretty early, I think after his first four. Well, now we got a game on. So I was playing pretty solid, gave myself some chances. I made some great saves there in the middle of the round. Then 8 I left one dead short from where I needed to have it. 15 was a big one, where I had an easy putt straight up the hill, and I pulled it. Overall, it was great. Roger played awesome. He's a great guy, great golf swing. It was just fun to get in it. THE MODERATOR: Questions for Fred? Q. Fred, I believe it was the first nine, I guess it was, on the second round. How much is that haunting you as far as what you did in that round? FRED FUNK: That was huge. That was my back nine, and I was 4 under for the day through 11, which was the second hole, and then I played the next seven 5 over and just played horrendous. It was more my driver. I just started‑‑ I was fighting the driver going left. That night I was staying over at Oakhurst, and I went out that night, and I've been carrying about four or five different shafts, and I found a shaft‑‑ I don't even know where it came from. I know I used it before, but I don't know what the header was in. It was a little shorter and quite a bit stiffer. I put it in, and it tended to go left. I put the same head on that shaft and just drove the ball great the last two days. Actually hit it further because it rolls a lot longer. I got rid of that left shot. That shot killed me. I hit it in the hay three times in a row with that and then hit it out of bounds with a 3 iron on 9, just trying to lay up out there. I've hit four balls in my life on Tour like that, and that was my fourth. I just couldn't believe it. That was just icing on the cake, more like shit on the cake. It was a shit cake, and then I had shit icing. Can you print that? Q. Fred, you know I'm going to print that. FRED FUNK: I know you will. Q. Talk about the putt at 18, what you saw, and what you hit in there too. FRED FUNK: I hit a 7 iron in. All day the greens have been releasing a lot, and that one had a really soft ball mark. If it rolled just another three feet, it was going to roll down right to the hole, but it didn't. For some reason, that green was a lot softer than the other ones. But I hit a really good shot. The putt just broke a ton. We played a big break, and it broke even more. It wasn't even close really. I mean, I knew it was low. Got about halfway there, and I looked up. When I looked up, it was halfway there. It was already even with the hole, and I knew it was slow. That's a diabolical green. It's more like four greens in one. It's pretty tough. I knew I needed that putt. I didn't realize Roger‑‑ I knew he bogeyed 16 to go back to 9 because everybody reacted, and I looked up at the board. He must have made a great birdie on 17. That's a nice little cushion he had there. THE MODERATOR: Great charge today, Fred. Thanks very much. FRED FUNK: Thanks, guys. By the way, it's a great golf course. I thought it was a great championship and a really great golf course. It was just fun to play. It was a great week. So thanks. FastScripts Transcript by ASAP Sports |
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