Q. When is the last time you can remember
throwing up a score card that had four 2s on it?
BILLY MAYFAIR: First time ever, first time I
birdied every one of the par 3s. When I hit my
shot in on 17 about five feet, I kind of chuckled
with Duffy and Kevin Sutherland that I've never
birdied all the par 3s on the golf course, so
fortunately I made them all.
Q. That's a lot of golf not to do that.
BILLY MAYFAIR: This is on the Tour. I might
have done it screwing around.
Q. It's still a lot of golf.
BILLY MAYFAIR: Still. If you look at my
stats, my par 3 stats aren't all that strong. This
definitely helped today.
Q. So you were cognizant of the fact when you
got to 17.
BILLY MAYFAIR: Yes, I was. After I had hit
the shot -- you know, we came around 16 and got
there by the green and you could tell the wind had
switched, and that water was starting to get little
whitecaps out there and I knew it was blowing
pretty good. All my concern was was just trying to
find the green actually on 17, and then the ball
kind of rolled up there by the hole after that and
I started thinking about, wow, I could birdie all
four of the par 3s.
Q. Even you guys remember writing down 2s,
huh?
BILLY MAYFAIR: Absolutely. 2s are really
good.
Q. Have you made any changes to get your iron
play more in order?
BILLY MAYFAIR: No, not really. I just started
feeling my golf swing at the end of last year, and
besides a few good weeks in and out of here,
especially at the U.S. Open, I haven't hit the ball
as consistently as I have in the past. Normally if
I don't have a good year on the PGA Tour it's
because of my putting. My putting this year is
good but I'm not scoring because I haven't hit the
ball close enough to the hole. I'm doing the same
thing, it's just starting to work a little bit
better, I think.
Q. When you went out to start off the round,
did you have a feeling early on that this was going
to be something, or about when did it click to you
that you were hitting the irons well?
BILLY MAYFAIR: Well, I made a nice putt on
No. 2, about a 20-footer up the hill, and then I
actually made a good birdie putt on 5, the par 3,
but I made about -- on 6 I made about a 20-footer
for par, and when that went in, it went in right in
the heart with some authority, and I knew I was
kind of clicking. I guess you could say I was in
the zone. I think that really turned my round
around, my whole round, that hole right there. I
was going good, and then if I missed that I would
have kicked myself, but by making the putt it kind
of kept it going.
Q. What let to the 20-footer?
BILLY MAYFAIR: I hit a 9-iron into the green
and pull hooked it left to the green and had a
really bad lie and didn't quite get it up the hill
there. Actually it was more like 15 feet. I made
that, but I just hit a bad iron shot.
Q. Does that happen a lot where it's not even
a birdie but it's par --
BILLY MAYFAIR: Sometimes a par is the biggest
score you can have out there. If you've got a good
round going, which I did at the time, to save a par
putt can really keep it going, even more than
making another birdie.
TODD BUDNICK: All right, everybody good?
Okay, thanks, Billy, for coming in.
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