Jerry Haas

Senior PGA Championship 2015
Friday, May 22
Quick Quotes
Jerry Haas
Q. Well, we were pulling for you. Could you talk
about that three hole stretch.
JERRY HAAS: I just made a beautiful putt on number 5
there for birdie and just had 3-under for the day, playing
beautifully. And I played way better than yesterday.
Crazy game. Then I had 128 yards to the middle of the
fairway and hit it on the green and 3-putted No. 6.
Missed about a 4-footer. Bad 3-putt. Then the next
hole, I thought the wind was going more to the right, I
hit a beautiful 6-iron kind of left fringe and it just stayed
there. I hit a nice chip to about four feet. Missed that.
So, that was my third kind of short miss of the week or
the day. But it was like, okay, let's hit a good drive, and I
thought I hit a good drive, it was just in the right rough.
And I didn't quite get it out of the rough and hit it in that
front bunker. If I knew I was going to make seven, I
probably would have played it a little different. But I
took pitching wedge out and I'm usually pretty good at
that, at kind of scooting it back there, and I hit it too
hard and it went trickling past and went over. Then I
tried to bump it in. It came back to me. Then I putted,
it barely stayed up and then I missed there. So just like
that I went bogey, bogey, triple and lost five shots. And
then I made a good putt on the last hole for par. I
probably should have went more to the fairway, so I
could have controlled my third. I thought I hit a nice
third shot on my pitch, but it rolled over the green. But I
think that in a nutshell kind of shows you about this
course. You see why guys, I know Olin Browne made a
nine on the par-3 the other day. You get in the wrong
spots and you don't take your medicine, that's what
happens. I was probably thinking that, I'm pretty good
at this shot, I can get it back there maybe 10 feet and
maybe save par and birdie the last and it wouldn't be
such a bad finish. But I played really well. I birdied the
10th hole right out of the gate. Tough downhill. I
missed a makeable par putt on 13. Made a good save
on 14. Birdied 15. Birdied 18. Birdied 1. Rolling nice.
And then 2 I kind of missed it below the slope, 25 feet
and putted it by about five or six foot and missed it
coming back. So, if I could have three short putts over
again, that might have -- I don't think I would have
made seven if I would have made the two par putts on
6 and 7. Very makeable, not very difficult. But I'm 3over, Top-20 it's looking like. For a guy that is a golf
coach and I'm enjoying being out here I'm enjoying
playing. I know I'll get a lot of stick from the guys about
making seven there, because I get on them about
making triples and doubles and stuff. So, but anyway, if
I keep playing this well, it's supposed to be a nice
weekend, supposed to be 75, 80 degrees, I should
have a decent tee time tomorrow, a little later, which I
prefer, and I'm proud to represent Wake Forest and I'm
proud to, I got a lot of texts from the guys last night and
I know that they will be wanting to know what the heck
happened today.
Q. You know that this golf course probably that no
lead is really safe on this golf course, you got to
really manage yourself really well around here.
JERRY HAAS: Right, you do. The greens, some of the
shots you're hitting a long shot into some very small
targets. And if you get one shot that kicks off on a
crazy spot, boy, you don't hit that chip hard enough, it's
back to you. Then you hit the next one, you really have
to keep it -- the 14th hole up the hill, if you're out of the
rough or cross wind and that green sits in there at a
funny angle it's hard to hit that green, it goes over. I
got up-and-down from there. That was a good up-anddown. Next hole, luckily it played downwind, 15, today,
but I played 15 into the wind the practice round and hit
a 3-wood short. So, next hole, the par-5, I made a nice
up-and-down out of the bunker. But 16 green, 17
green, and 18 green are pretty flat. So you'll, I think as
the week goes, you'll see some great excitement at the
end down there on those last few. Great crowds again
today. I saw them leaving in the bus loads and people
lining up. And great amphitheater on 18. I made long
putt there and Billy Andrade and I had a little fun. He
had the same putt right in front of me and he just
missed, so. But, yeah, all in all, crazy as it might sound,
I think I can shoot a couple good rounds over the
weekend. But I'm in pretty good shape and these guys
will be getting tired and there will be some guys that -you can play well and actually shoot a bad score here.
That's the crazy thing. If you -- you're better off hitting
a wild drive and it ends up okay. Sometimes if you just
miss it, it's worse.
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