Marc Leishman, Round 1, Emirates Australian Open

KATHIE SHEARER:  Marc, you left a few out there today?

MARC LEISHMAN:  Yeah, I played pretty good, hit some really good shots and hit some stinkers, but coming off a month off you probably expect that.  But, happy with 2-under.  It wasn’t the ideal start.  It would have been nice to shoot 4 or 5, which would have been, definitely the way I played, I could have done that, but yeah, pretty good start all in all.

KATHIE SHEARER:  Your putting good, everything good, other than a bit rusty, as you said?

MARC LEISHMAN:  Yeah, I feel good over the putter, the short stuff was good.  These greens can be tricky.  They’re very subtle and hard to read.  I was happy with the putter.  A couple of iron shots I’d like to have again, but apart from that, I played pretty decent.

Q.  What was a good score out there do you think?

MARC LEISHMAN:  It depends what the wind does. I think Cam’s 3-under is pretty good.  I don’t know what Wade ended up shooting or what’s leading.

Q.  Jones is 5 I think.

MARC LEISHMAN:  I don’t think anyone will go too much lower than 5-under today.  It’s hard when you’re missing greens.  There are some tough pins out there, the wind’s tricky.  It’s not blowing much but it’s switching a little bit.  I’ll say it’s tricky, very tricky out there.  Like I say, I’m happy with 2-under.  I think I won’t be too far away tomorrow when I tee off, maybe 5 behind, which is nothing on a golf course like this.

Q.  Did you find your mind wandering to next week at all while you were out there or not?

MARC LEISHMAN:  No, not really, I’m pretty good at staying in the present, I guess.  We spoke about it a lot but I guess it’s wandering between shots but my mind always wanders between shots, so it’s nothing new.  I like to switch on and off.  We probably spoke more golf than we normally would just because of that.

Q.  When you’re talking about between shots, what is the stuff you talk about?

MARC LEISHMAN:  Stuff that people are talking about outside the rooms, exactly the same stuff – food, beer, bar – normal stuff.  It’s nothing.  We’re just people exactly the same as everyone else, so it’s normal conversations.

KATHIE SHEARER: Thank you very much, thanks Marc, see you tomorrow.