What they said: Steve Stricker

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Q. Did you leave a couple out there?

STEVE STRICKER: I did leave a couple out there. A little disappointing. I hit the ball great today. Pretty good ball striking day for me. I drove it in the fairways a lot. I gave myself a lot of opportunities. All of a sudden I found myself doubting some of the (Inaudible), paying attention to the green. I don't know, I was getting a little confused out there. I was not making a very confident stroke. I made a good stroke at 17 and a good stroke there at 18 but missed a couple that I probably should have made.

Q. 65 out there today on a day that was little different scoring conditions than we saw in the third round?

STEVE STRICKER: Yes, I don't know why either. There were still a lot of tough pins. The wind was I guess down a little bit from the other days, and maybe guys were getting more comfortable with their games and the conditions. But, yes, the scoring was good. I could see that the scores were going to be good and that I needed to keep trying to make birdies. You know I left a couple of shots out there but overall I hit the ball really well today.

Q. Just giving yours chances is all you want to the do. The only question that I wanted to ask you and, you know, normally I'm the optimistic guy, tell me about 7, what was the shot that you were trying to play out of that green side bunker?

STEVE STRICKER: Well, I was just trying to get it on the green 30, 40 feet left. I was trying to bump it into the rough, or just get it out on the to the green, make my bogey and get out there of which I ended up doing. But, you know, there were two shots out there today. That shot at 7. And a little iron at 15 where I came over the top. I was just trying to chip little irons in there and hooked both of those. So I got some work for do. But overall I hit the ball very well today, especially off the tee and gave myself a lot of opportunities.

Q. You got to be really happy with your putting to you because you drained some bombs out there, I thought the fire trucks were coming for a minute.

STEVE STRICKER: You know I made the bombs and then there was couple of 7, 8 footers that I didn't even smoke the hole on, a few sometimes. Overall it was a good week and a good start to the season.

Q. (Inaudible)?

STEVE STRICKER: Yes, definitely, I'm trying to win the tournament. Obviously we got off to a good start that I needed to get off to. I did a lot of good things today. So I can go home the next couple of weeks with a lot of confidence. I got some things I need to work on as far as hitting it. There were some putts I should have made but, you know, there was a lot of good things, a lot of good things that happened.