BAY HILL INVITATIONAL PRESENTED BY COOPER TIRES

March 19, 1999

Andrew Magee

ANDREW MAGEE: Man, I really, really putted pretty good for two days. That's kind of been the difference. Made some long putts, which I haven't done in quite a while. Made some nice 15-, 20-footers yesterday, and today I made about a 15-, 20-footer on the third hole for birdie after bogeying the first hole, the 3-putt - my only 3-putt I have had. And I think it has been the difference, as I have putted very well for two days. Kept the ball in play with my tee shots and haven't been striking my irons as of yet. But I've hit quite a nice few shots up there 15 feet, not making those kind of putts. I haven't been making 8- to 10-footers that much, as much as I have been making the 15-footers.

ANDREW MAGEE: Good, see you later.

ANDREW MAGEE: Oh, sure. I've definitely got a lot of confidence from a couple of weeks ago. Gary suggested we have a Match Play event on the weekend here. I thought that was a great idea. No, I have confidence. I didn't -- I have a whole lot going into the Match Play. I gained a whole bunch from it after that. I played really well all week over there at La Costa, obviously, and went home for two weeks off. And really -- you don't really know what you are going to have when you come back. I was trying to remember all those good things that I was doing there, and I amazingly enough, over two weeks I had still remembered when I got here what I was doing good, so it has carried over.

ANDREW MAGEE: I get recognized a lot more. It is unbelievable. Unbelievable.

ANDREW MAGEE: I don't know. I don't know yet. Before I got recognized once in a while. I went to Canada skiing last weekend - Canada. That is way far away from everywhere else in Whistler. People were walking down the street turning their heads: Magee. I was going: Shit. It was kind of strange. I am not used to that, no.

ANDREW MAGEE: I wasn't really watching. I know Davis hit a shot into the bunker and it plugged. He had a terrible lie in the bunker. I guess he was just a little frustrated, I don't know, I was over trying to hit my chip shot; next thing I know this thing explodes. And did it ever.

ANDREW MAGEE: You know, I just -- I think that the tee shots set up good for me. Maybe I am a good long-iron player, I can cut the corners a little bit with my tee shots and not have to hit as many long irons as many guys, I am a longer hitter, I think it is a longer hitter's course. I don't know why Loren Roberts won here so many times. I have just had good vibes ever since the first time I played here. I think I finished pretty good and I think it was 1988 my first time here and I will never forget playing with Fuzzy Zoeller, I was playing with him on Saturday or Sunday, I think that was the year he won. I got to watch a winner walk down the 18th hole. That was kind of a thrill my first time to watch -- to play with a guy that was actually going to win the tournament. I just have always had nice tournaments here. It sets up well. I feel comfortable with the course, and you know, it is hard to explain. I have had good results and I expect to, I guess.

ANDREW MAGEE: I planned on playing them all.

ANDREW MAGEE: You guys really want to go over my birdies? You guys care about that? No, you don't. Well, let's see, 3-putted the first hole. I 2-putted the second hole there a long way for par. Hit it about 15 feet on 3. Made birdie. No. 6 the par 5, I hit a good drive very good drive and I hit a 4-iron on the par 5 to my second shot up on the edge of the fringe. I chipped -- almost chipped it in for eagle; made a tap-in birdie there. No. 12 I hit sandwedge to a foot. Davis gave me that that was a gimme. 13, I hit my middle wedge to about 15, 20 feet; made it for birdie. 14, I hit a -- made a long putt on the 14th hole in the back of the green. The par 3 I have got that hole total of 4 in two days, so I think I got a skin there so far. That was probably a 30, 40-footer there, 30-footer. No. 16 I hit good drive and 3-iron to the right edge of the green and lagged it down made about a 5-footer for birdie. And 17, got up-and-down hit it close and 18 hit it in there about eight feet and missed it. So I had some opportunities and I made most of my opportunities today.

ANDREW MAGEE: It was really kind of ironic because I had a box in my locker all week at La Costa, it was from Reebok. I wear the Reebok shoes. It was in a box, shoe box size, so I figured it is a pair of shoes. I didn't even pick it up or anything. It was a dozen socks. Socks I was wearing, they were stinky La Costa, you know, they were fancy kind of formal thin things that fell down, I had to pull them up all the time. If I had some good socks, no telling what I would have done(laughter).

ANDREW MAGEE: Socks. Yeah. Where were you? Okay.