THE TOUR CHAMPIONSHIP PRESENTED BY DYNEGY

November 3, 2001

Jim Furyk

JIM FURYK: The length of my birdie putts were all pretty close. I hit really good lines and gave myself a lot of opportunities for, birdie, and I made those putts. There was only a couple birdie putts where I just needed a couple birdie putts within 15 feet that I couldn't make. I had a long one at 17 that burned the edge and then come off one at 18 from about 25 feet that had a chance. I really gave myself a lot of opportunities to and I took advantage of them making a lot of putts.

JIM FURYK: Well, it isn't unexpected, no.

JIM FURYK: I don't think that my scores -- I really have been shooting around even par every day for the last three, four, five events. And just really, I haven't done anything extremely poorly. It is not like I am playing awful. I just haven't got the ball in the hole very well, and one day it is my putting, the next day I might hit a couple bad drives that hurt me. The next day I don't hit my irons all that great. It seems like always something was a little off and I didn't feel like I was playing bad. I add it up, I shoot 71, 72. Eventually you just keep plugging a way. I was frustrated my first two rounds because I felt like I was playing a lot better than the score I shot. And then today it is kind of like all of a sudden it was a -- the flood gates opened and I took advantage of a lot of those opportunities.

JIM FURYK: I really didn't make any changes. To be honest with you, I went to the range and hit pitching wedges for about ten minutes and went home. What the big difference was, I'm not quite sure. One of the things I haven't been doing very well, I haven't been turning the ball over very well. And today I said the heck with it, I'll just cut every shot no matter where the pin was. And I've been cutting it well and I quit fighting the draw a little bit. But from a mechanics standpoint, why you go out -- and I barely missed a fairway the first couple days an when I did, it was by a couple yards. Why I would drive the ball so well and then hit my irons 30 feet all day, I'm not sure. I don't know what was wrong with the approach, it seemed like when I hit it at the pin it was the wrong distance. I would hit it out to the right or the left. They weren't crisp. And maybe a lot of it is rhythm and timing. I went out there and hit some wedges for some timing yesterday. I was hitting them real smooth, like 115-yard shots and just trying to get some timing down and maybe it helped.

JIM FURYK: Well it is important. If I don't go out and fire a good number today, then I'm just going to, then Sunday becomes a day where you're trying to shoot a number to see how well you can finish in the event. It is one of the pride issues now. I don't know where the leaders are, but I would give myself maybe an opportunity to win the golf tournament if I play a really, really good round again tomorrow. But that's going to be determined on the back nine.

JIM FURYK: I told a couple other people. I felt pretty good about how I was playing the last couple days. I was a little unhappy with the way I hit my irons and I just didn't feel like I was scoring. I felt I could have got the ball in the hole a little better. And today I scored really well. I hit the ball a little better. I putted a little better. But at the end of the day when I made mistakes, I found a way out of it and I did a lot of thinking right and I found a way to put the ball in the hole.