Q.  Do you know what kind of has to happen for you to, I guess, get an invite to Europe?  Have you worked it out in your head yesterday?

ZACH MURRAY:  Yeah, I’m a pretty big thinker so I sort of know what the go is, but there’s a couple of guys ‑‑ I think obviously Brad Kennedy’s still out there playing, I think I’m 16, in front of him. 

But I think I should be okay if Scotty ‑‑ if Scotty wins and sort of Wade finishes high ‑‑ high up there.  Yeah, I mean, things look pretty good.  Yeah, I just want to ‑‑ all I could do ‑‑ I haven’t really been playing that great lately and I battled around the first couple days and made it through the weekend and then got off to a bad start yesterday, I was 4 over through six, and obviously to shoot 3 under today, 2 under on the back nine yesterday and 3 under today was pretty good.  I was feeling a bit of pressure as you do, but yeah, I played great the last six holes.  I literally could have birdied the last six holes, so it was pretty good.

Q.  Good crowd behind you, too.  Where did they come from?

ZACH MURRAY:  Allmy family.  Basically a lot of my family lives on the Gold Coast so I’m staying up here for Christmas.  I’m going to Movie World tomorrow.  Yeah, it was pretty good.  I mean, my family, they’re pretty passionate people.  Yeah, that birdie putt on the last might mean a little something at the end of the day and it was nice to finish high.

Q.  You went to Q‑School, didn’t you?

ZACH MURRAY:  Europe.

Q.  Yeah, yeah, yeah.  So obviously Europe’s a very appealing proposition for you.  What would it mean to sort of get an invite to play there next year?

ZACH MURRAY:  Oh, basically all year I’ve been thinking about this moment.  I mean, I grew up watching the European Tour on TV at home.  I’m a big golf fan, I watch a lot of golf.  I still ‑‑ at events, I still whip out the laptop and watch it at nighttime and stuff.  Yeah, I mean, it’s been a huge goal of mine for a long time, so fortunate to be in the position I’m in with the Order of Merit.  Apart from going out and shooting lights out this week, there was not really much I can do just because there’s not that many events to play in.  But yeah, it would be unbelievable.

Q.  Did you take affiliate ‑‑ have you taken sort of affiliate membership already?  Did you do that at Q‑School?  Where do you sort of sign that?

ZACH MURRAY:  Yeah, so, I’m pretty ‑‑ my manager deals with that stuff, but I’m pretty sure I’m an affiliate member just through getting through final stage of Q‑School.  Money will count this week.  Yeah, it should ‑‑ if I happen to snag it, it should be pretty awesome next year.

Q.  You had a couple of ‑‑ like 2017 you had a good run at the British Amateur.  Is that, sort of those couple years, the only experience you had playing up there?

ZACH MURRAY:  Just the stuff in St. Andrews, Scottish stroke play is all that I’ve played up there.  I had a couple top‑10s and I made the quarterfinal of the (inaudible) a few years ago.  My girlfriend and mum’s from just south of London and we spent a lot of time over there this year.  It’s sort of like, you know, she just finished her studies and it’s sort of the place where everything would just run smoothly if it did happen.  Yeah, I don’t know.  It’s just, my brain’s ‑‑

Q.  Planets aligning?

ZACH MURRAY:  Yeah, I don’t know.  I’m a big believer in if it’s meant to be, it’s meant to be.  I think things have happened in my life.  I mean, New Zealand, you know.  I’ve struggled ‑‑ I’ve always struggled sort of going away from home.  I just don’t travel ‑‑ I haven’t traveled that well, you know. 

And winning the New Zealand Open this year obviously gave me the financial leg up just to be able to take a mate or take my girlfriend with me and it made this year basically possible.  Two years ago I didn’t really want to travel overseas and play golf just because I just got super anxious about it. 

I don’t know, it just runs in the blood a little bit.  I’ve done a huge amount of work on that and it’s still ‑‑ I don’t think it’s any better than it ever was, it’s just that now I’ve got people around me to keep me comfortable.  That’s just how life will be.  And I love my golf, but I don’t love it enough to drive myself into the ground, because life’s too short to be stressing about that all the time.

Q.  Tell me, who did you sort of follow watching the European Tour events as a kid?  Were there players you kind of were attracted to you that you kind of enjoyed watching, even still today?

ZACH MURRAY:  I mean, I’m a big Stenson fan.  I reckon I’ve watched him in that Open about 50 times.  I’ve got it on my laptop and I watch it basically every time I get on the plane.  The Jewel of the Suns CDD.  Yeah, it’s really cool. 

Obviously like with Marcus Fraser being from half an hour away from where I grew up, I’ve always sort of looked up to him.  We’re good mates, we play golf together now, so he’s someone who I can draw on advice.  He’s made an unbelievable living out of Europe for the last 15, 20 years at two or three wins I think as well. 

Yeah, Stenson’s probably the one that I sort of look up to the most.

Q.  Just lastly, this time last year you had only just turned professional.  How do you sum up year one?  What have you learned?  What do you wish you knew 12 months ago that you know now?

ZACH MURRAY:  I don’t know.  I feel as though I’m just a big reflector.  I reflect a lot on how I play, how I prepare.  I don’t think there’s any secret, to be fair.  At the New Zealand Open this year, my preparation was nothing special.  I didn’t warm up on the first two days because ‑‑ I didn’t warm up the first day because it was too cold and I just couldn’t swing, so I went and sat in the clubhouse.

Q.  Is that the best time to warm up, though, when it’s cold?

ZACH MURRAY:  Yeah, I don’t know.  I just went to the tee and went out and shot 8 under, you know?  And then there’s times when I’ve warmed up really well, felt great and played great and vice versa, I’ve warmed up well ‑‑ I don’t know, it’s just golf.  That’s sort of why I’ve become a big believer in if it’s just meant to be, it just happens. 

We’re all out there trying to shoot the best score we can, and there’s obviously that part where you’ve got to be so mentally strong.  What does mentally strong mean?  It’s a huge answer to that question.  That’s sort what have I’ve been trying to work on is what triggers me to get into the right mental space, and I’m slowly getting there.  I’m working with a guy, Ken Little and his partner, Rachel.  We talk every day.  It’s never about the golf, it’s just about being the best human you can be, because at the end of the day we are all human.  So it’s just about ‑‑ there’s going to be times where I’m going to be crappy, I’m going to swear and whatever, but the majority of the time I’m trying to remain calm, focused and just try and enjoy it the best as I can.

Q.  And one of the things that a lot of guys say now is crap golf doesn’t make you a crappy human, either.  Sort of understanding, not attaching it to is a big part of (inaudible) always had my self worth tied up into what I shot ‑‑

ZACH MURRAY:  Yeah.

Q.  ‑‑ reflect now and realize that’s not what makes you a good person.

ZACH MURRAY:  Yeah.

Q.  Shooting 66 doesn’t make you a better person.

ZACH MURRAY:  No, exactly.  It doesn’t change ‑‑ and it doesn’t change ‑‑ like if you shoot 66, your ability doesn’t change at all from if you shoot 76.  You’ve still got the same amount of talent, the same amount of ability, the same game as you had the morning before, it’s just that you didn’t play as good and your technique might have just fallen away a little bit. 

I think that’s what I’m slowly starting to realize is yesterday I come home and I didn’t play that great and I didn’t warm up great on the range, but it’s because I knew that it just doesn’t really mean anything.  I’m out there to try and get my body loose, and then I flushed it today.  I think that’s how I work. 

Other players might work with that reverse psychology.  Like if I warm up bad, I know I’m going to play well.  It’s literally just the mind is so (inaudible.) 

And that’s, you know, guys ‑‑ you look at, you have to look at Tiger, his mind, he’s got the best head in the game.  Obviously unbelievable player, but he definitely wouldn’t won as many tournaments if he wasn’t so strong up top. 

Scotty, he’s just a good player.  He knows that if he just plays probably 70 or 80 percent towards his best, he knows he’s going to be at the top of the leaderboard and that’s just where that confidence comes from. 

I think that’s what I’m trying to work on, you know, is just believe in myself.  I know I’m a good player and I’ve won before, but sometimes you just have to believe ‑‑

Q.  Get out of your own way.

ZACH MURRAY:  ‑‑ in yourself.  As I said, it’s only human to do that.  I’m not afraid of those thoughts, it’s just what happens.

Q.  Yeah, yeah, yeah. 

ZACH MURRAY:  It’s just you’ve got to minimise that and just get on with the job.

Q.  What’s your girlfriend’s name?

ZACH MURRAY:  Amy.

Q.  How did you feel like you handled Sunday in a big event like this?

MIN WOO LEE:  Yeah, it was just a scrappy start.  I bogeyed the first two par 3s, that wasn’t the best, but I was pretty proud of the way I handled myself.  I hit a lot of good shots on the back nine.  So 17 was a little unlucky and I hit a really good shot into 18, just missed the putt.  Yeah, just a few putts missed and I’m right in there, and a few mistakes during the week.  Yeah, it’s a good learning curve.

Q.  Did you have a number in mind today?  Did you sort of ‑‑ were you keeping track of ‑‑ no one really got away until Adam on 15, but were you kind of keeping track of where you were in terms of the leaderboard?

MIN WOO LEE:  Well, I knew I was behind all day just from that start.  You know someone’s going to make birdie, so I was a bit behind from the eight‑ball.  Yeah, like I said, it’s a pretty good effort of me just to kind of come back after that start.

Q.  Do you like the electricity of a Sunday?

MIN WOO LEE:  Yeah, it’s awesome.

Q.  How do you feel when you’re in that sort of arena I guess on Sunday?

MIN WOO LEE:  Yeah, it’s brilliant.  Especially 16, that’s a pretty cool ‑‑ nice to make birdie there and get a good roll out of there.  But yeah, I think the crowd’s awesome, I love playing at home.  I know this isn’t home home, Queensland, but it made me feel like home and it was really nice.  Nice crowd, awesome crowd, everyone’s cheering, so it’s awesome.

Q.  As a young guy, do you like the music going on on 16 and sort of really getting involved?  Is that your thing?

MIN WOO LEE:  Yeah, I think it’s pretty cool.  Obviously it’s not ‑‑ it’s not usual playing music on the course, but yeah, no, it was cool.  Like today the only thing, they didn’t play that cool music when I was going around, I think around 14, 15, but it got good when I got there, so it was fine.

Q.  You don’t listen to Justin Bieber all day, do you?

MIN WOO LEE:  Well, it might have been better than what I was listening to just before.

Q.  What was playing when you went through?

MIN WOO LEE:  I don’t know.  It was just before I think I got to the hole.  No, it’s all good.

Q.  Odd songs? 

MIN WOO LEE:  Yeah, I think it was a pretty odd song.  I didn’t know what the song was before I got there.

Q.  Does something like this take ‑‑ take a few of the money worries out of next year where you can just play whenever you like, not have that sort of young pro issue with sort of where’s the next money coming from?

MIN WOO LEE:  Yeah, it obviously helps, but I think good golf takes care of all that stuff.  I know I played pretty solid this year and I’m pretty happy with the way I’m going.  I’m only getting better, I feel like I’m just trending, so it’s really good. 

No, I don’t really worry about the money too much, just got to hit the shots when you need to and hole some putts.  Keep doing that and hopefully I’ll be ‑‑ hopefully I’ll be rich rich one day.

Q.  You’ve been in close range of Adam Scott to see how he goes through his processes and then you’ve seen him in the tournament.  What sort of takeaway do you get from the way Adam handles himself and finds that accelerator to win?

MIN WOO LEE:  If I hit it like him, I think if I drive it like him, I’ll probably win by 10.  He doesn’t make a mistake.  He rarely does.  So no, I think just the way ‑‑ he doesn’t really get into trouble, not like ‑‑ I guess if you win, you don’t.  He controls himself and yeah, just keeps it pretty chill out there and holes putts when he needs to.

Q.  Practice or rest before South Africa, mate?

MIN WOO LEE:  Rest.  I’m not sure if I’ll play South Africa, but I’m definitely ‑‑ it’s holiday mode right now.

Q.  What’s the holiday look like for you?

MIN WOO LEE:  Just at home chilling with family and friends.  I’m looking forward to it.

Q.  Michael, obviously a bad break there on 17 (inaudible) the trees?

MICHAEL HENDRY:  Yeah, that’s always a risk because that big tree always comes into play.  You’ve just got to try and skim it basically, otherwise you end up over the back.  I just tried to hit the shot and I did, just flicked the top of the tree.  Then obviously got (inaudible) but that’s golf.

Q.  You weren’t expecting it to (inaudible)?  

MICHAEL HENDRY:  Not quite as deeply as it did, no.  There a lot of sand out there on the face of the bunker and it is what it is.  I’ve had that sort of thing happen before and I’ll have it happen again.  It’s golf.

Q.  Talk us through this morning when you were heading to the range and you weren’t too sure about how you would fare on the first tee.  How was the warm‑up?

MICHAEL HENDRY:  The warm‑up was terrible.  I honestly thought I wasn’t going to get through the round.  So quite honestly, my goal today was just get through 18 holes and finish the event regardless of what the score was.  Lo and behold, I hit it really well. 

It was painful all day and I just kept trying to basically man up and hit the shot.  Maybe that was the thing that I needed to take my attention away from what was happening on the golf course.  It was more about trying to make good swings under a little bit of pain, and I made a lot of good swings.

Q.  You’ve won tournaments before.  How did today, the atmosphere and things, was it different at all to the New Zealand Open or playing in Japan?  

MICHAEL HENDRY:  Yeah, it was a little bit different.  I’ve never been in the situation physically and been in contention at the same time as today, so like I said, it was an odd one for me today.  I kind of ‑‑ like I say, anything above and beyond 72 holes to me was a bonus today, and to go out and shoot 69 in pretty tricky conditions, just get through (inaudible).

Q.  Did you have a look at the leaderboard?

MICHAEL HENDRY:  Yeah, yeah.  I look at leaderboards, I know what’s going on.  If you want to win tournaments, I think you’ve got to know when you’ve got to push the button to attack and when you can be defensive.  So I was very aware as to what was going on. 

Like I said, I’m pretty happy with the way I played considering physically what was going on.  It’s a shame that I didn’t end up winning, but when you’re not 100 percent and you’re trying to chase down one of the best players in the world, you’re up against it.

Q.  Tee shot at 15, were you concerned that with the rib pulled you might pull the shot?

MICHAEL HENDRY:  Well, it seems to be the scenario when it hurts, I pull it because I can’t rotate through the shot as I want to.  So yeah, and after hitting that exact shot yesterday in the water I was a little concerned about that.  I just thought just make sure you at least give yourself a chance at birdie.  If I blasted it out to the right, so be it because I probably got a chance to (inaudible) for three.  I stood out there, tried to hit a good shot and just sort of I suppose over‑corrected.

Q.  (No microphone.)

NICK FLANAGAN:  I mean, if somebody told me I was going to finish third at the start of the day, I probably would have taken it, to be honest with you.  To put myself in a good spot there with a few holes to come, you know, I’m pretty gutted. 

But at the same time it was one of those weeks where I haven’t done something like this in a while, probably since this event last year, really.  So I’m ‑‑ yeah, I’m pretty pumped, but at the same time definitely a little disappointed I couldn’t ‑‑ just that one shot really kind of cost me.

Q.  Thirteen, mate, mentioned yesterday you just didn’t have a feel for the bunkers.  Those fairway bunkers seem to ‑‑ was the sand heavy or deeper?

NICK FLANAGAN:  I don’t know what’s going on.  My bad shot this week has been a bit heavy, and then I got in the fairway bunkers.  That last one I hit, obviously I blocked it.  I was trying to just hit it on the front edge.  That was the first one I’ve actually hit ball first, so that’s something to look at in the future.  It was a foot from going over that bunker, I just kind of hit it a little high on the face off the tee and that’s ‑‑ I had a lot of good things happen, a lot of good breaks, so it just is what it is.

Q.  It’s good to have the juices flowing again, isn’t it?  Final day playing ‑‑

NICK FLANAGAN:  Yeah, for sure.  It’s my best ever finish in ‑‑ well, as a pro anyway in a European Tour event.  My wife and I really need it at the moment, so it’s pretty good.

Q.  How big is it from that perspective?  You’ve got a child coming, and just from a financial and confidence perspective.  You look like you get pretty emotional thinking about it.

NICK FLANAGAN:  Give me a second.

Q.  Sorry, mate.  Is that happy tears?  You know what I mean?

Q.  It was that sort of week for you, wasn’t it, Nick?  Just a really sort of emotional week?

NICK FLANAGAN:  Give me a second.

Q.  Take your time, it’s all good.

NICK FLANAGAN:  I think I’m going to get myself here in a sec.

Yeah, it’s been ‑‑ it’s been a tough few months.  I thought I was going to do well there in Europe, at European Q‑School.  That was tough not to get through there.  Yeah, it’s huge.  I haven’t felt ‑‑ like I haven’t been able to play a stress‑free round of golf.

Q.  Is it so emotional because of the past few months or because of the past 10 years basically?

NICK FLANAGAN:  Yeah, I mean, a bit of everything.  Like I said, I haven’t been able to really play a stress‑free round of golf, kind of wanting to make money.  And obviously with the baby on the way, this is huge for us.  Over Christmas I’ll actually feel like I can sit down on the couch for a couple weeks and actually relax and not think about where the next check’s coming from, at least for two or three weeks at least, so that’s nice.  That’s kind of why I was getting a little emotional there for a second.

But yeah, obviously that’s huge for now.  You know, I’ve been talking about coming home and doing a bridging course and doing all that stuff the last couple months.  It’s still possibly in the cards, but it’s like golf just keeps pulling me back in it seems like.  When I’m just about down, I’ll have a good finish.  It’s just golf.

Q.  Have you learned anything constructive this week in terms of the way that you approach tournaments?  Do you think that you might ‑‑ I guess you’ve tried that a lot over the years, but what can you take out of the week that you can grasp onto going forward?

NICK FLANAGAN:  Yeah, I mean, the same thing happened to me last year.  I missed the two cuts, I missed the New South Wales Open and the Australian Open cuts and I was hitting it absolutely horrendous.  Actually felt I was hitting it good this year and then I got here and felt like I didn’t have my swing, my wrist was giving me issues.  Then I think it just all builds up and gets to a point where I pretty much just say F it, let’s go out and just try and enjoy it for a week and see what happens.

I got in the game out there today, which I haven’t done in a long time.  I felt like I could have won the tournament.  If somebody asked me that four days ago, I would have laughed at them.  Just goes to show I know I can do it.  When I get under the pump it seems like, I can win golf tournaments.  And playing one of the best players in the world, yeah, it was a lot of fun playing with Scotty.  I haven’t played with him probably since the Australian Masters as an amateur, so that was a lot of fun to watch what he did today.

Q.  Is that how it sucks you back in, because you play like that and you think I’ve still got it?  Do you know what I mean?

NICK FLANAGAN:  Yeah.  I mean, I hit the ball really good off the tee, it’s about as good as I’ve driven it in a long time.  Just a few shots around the greens this week kind of cost me.  I just wasn’t chipping good off these little kind of grainy fairways.  Without two flubbed chip shots this week, I could have been right there with him coming in. 

Yeah, I mean, obviously Scotty said a couple really nice things to make at the end, that he thinks my game’s in a really good spot and that he was pretty impressed, so it’s pretty nice to hear from him.

Q.  Where can you play next year?  What can you get starts in?

NICK FLANAGAN:  Well, the lady inside just informed me I get into South Africa in a couple weeks.  It’s the same week as the baby’s due, so I’m guessing that’s not going to happen.  I’m ‑‑ yeah, I’ve been away for seven of the last nine weeks, so I don’t think if I went to South Africa for a week when the baby gets born it would be good for the marriage.

Q.  Do you have any Korn Ferry Tour status at all?

NICK FLANAGAN:  Pastchampions.  It doesn’t give me any starts, though.

Q.  With final change for the Challenge, would you go?

NICK FLANAGAN:  Onceagain, it definitely wasn’t in the cards because I just didn’t have the money to do it.  I probably would have only got two or three starts anyway, but I don’t think they have like a re‑ranking system.  It’s different to what they do on the Korn Ferry where if I get a couple of starts out there and just make a couple of cuts and make some money.  

Q.  How do you feel?

ADAM SCOTT:  Pretty stoked, actually.  I kind of grinded it out this week and I feel like I outsmarted the golf course a little bit, which feels good, and it was good enough to beat everyone. 

So it’s been a long time between drinks for me and maybe only once or twice did the thought cross my mind that I’ll never win again.  It feels very good to win here, especially to finish the year off kind of winning at home.

Q.  It did cross your mind once or twice of never winning again?

ADAM SCOTT:  Well, I mean, fleeting thoughts.  You don’t know.  I think it’s very difficult to win.  I’m on the wrong side of this age thing now where these young guys are really good and I played some pretty good golf a couple weeks this year and fell short.  You know, record‑setting scores.  I think the courses are getting tougher, guys are playing good.  Just being all right doesn’t really get you in, you’ve got to be pretty much sensational.

Q.  People probably look at you and think every time you get on the golf course you think you need to win, but when you actually do win, what does that do for someone like you?

ADAM SCOTT:  Well, it’s big for the confidence.  I mean, I’ve seen what it’s done for me in the past; a win, you feel like you’re just never going to lose again, so you want to run with that while the confidence is up.  Somehow I’ll have to think that in seven weeks when I step back in L.A.

But I’ve seen not only a win here for myself at the end of 2012, I won the Masters, in Melbourne and then off some good golf where I didn’t win and what that kicked me onto in ’13 and on.  And I’ve seen Rory win in ’13 and go on to have an amazing ’14, and Jordan Spieth and so on.

You know, there’s a lot of confidence from a win and I’ll look forward to enjoying that.

Q.  You mentioned the Masters a few times and the build‑up to it.  Does this change your mindset now heading into your preparations for that tournament?

ADAM SCOTT:  I hope it helps, yeah.  I’ve got to think it does.  There’s a long way to go, but it’s nice to have reassurance and the belief of winning.  You want to be in contention and you want to find out how you feel and how you respond and I got some of that today.  So if I happen to be in that position someday at the Masters, I can draw on today and past experience, but this is a little more fresh, you know, than going back to 2016 and trying to remember how I felt.

Q.  Was there a moment on the back nine where you felt it slipping away at all, Adam?  I know you bogeyed eight and there’s a big pack there atop the leaderboard.

ADAM SCOTT:  Well, I didn’t feel it slipping away.  Six, seven and eight I thought just made the day hard for me because I had an opportunity to I thought kind of get a few in front and make it hard for everyone else, but I didn’t do well on those holes.

And then 12 was a great save.  I think, yeah, as good as the eagle on 15, the par on 12 was equally good.

Q.  What do you think of the 15th?  It just seems to keep turning up as a saviour hole in there.

ADAM SCOTT:  Yeah, I had a good drive and a 5‑iron in, and it was a pretty nice number, it was 215 yards to the front and just a slight breeze to help, so I knew it could pitch just right of the front and that was all I was trying to do.

Q.  Adam, you were an early commitment to this tournament, I think in April of this year.  How much more satisfying does a win knowing that you delivered the goods for them? 

ADAM SCOTT:  Well, I hope they’re happy with the result, but, you know, some of these things, for me it’s important to commit to early, but also I can really plan my whole year so that I’m here ready to play.  You know, sometimes as the year drags out, you’re kind of fading, but with the Presidents Cup here, I knew I was going to be motivated to be in top form for these three weeks.  I was a little rough there at the Aussie Open, but we turned it around and made the most of it, which I want to do every time I play.

Q.  Nick just mentioned you said nice things to him at 18 there.  What’s it like ‑‑

ADAM SCOTT:  Oh, it’s great.  Nick and I ‑‑ well, we reminisced just a couple weeks ago about playing golf with Ernie when he shot 60 at Royal Melbourne.  Nick was in the group with me, so that’s 15 years ago, so we’ve known each other a long time.  We’ve been on surf trips together and I’m really happy to see Nick playing golf like that today.  You know, not just up there, but he’s playing really good and I hope he takes a lot out of the last couple weeks and gets himself back to where he wants to be.  He’s obviously very talented, but he looked good out there today, I liked it.

Q.  Do you swing the club at all over your break, Adam, or just pick up the surfboard?

ADAM SCOTT:  I’ll give myself at least until the new year before anyone can drag me out on the course, but yeah, I’ll go play a couple times.  Playing good, so why not.

Q.  Do your kids have any ‑‑ what is their concept of golf?  Your oldest is in that stage where she probably understands a bit about golf?

ADAM SCOTT:  Yeah, they both ‑‑ well, my oldest doesn’t really play.  She kind of does, but my young boy, he likes hitting a golf ball.  I try not to coach him. 

But yeah, they just think it’s work and it takes me away from them, so I don’t know what their relationship is with the game just yet.

Q.  Are you going to take the trophy home to the kids?

ADAM SCOTT:  Well, that will be fun for my daughter because she’s asked all year for a trophy, so I’ve not been able to deliver.  So that will be fun for me tonight, see if that makes her happy.

Q.  Probably the furthest thing from your mind, but Olympics next year, will you give yourself time to think about whether you commit to that?

ADAM SCOTT:  Yeah, I’m just going to take my time and see.  I mean, I’ve made it clear it’s not my priority, but I wouldn’t rule it out.

Q.  You’re in good form, I guess it would be nice to win a medal?

ADAM SCOTT:  It would be nice to win a major first.

Q.  Just couldn’t get it going today, Cam?  Birdie, bogey, birdie, bogey, couldn’t seem to get hot?

CAMERON SMITH:  Yeah, I played really good today actually.  I didn’t really ‑‑ I didn’t really miss a shot until the drive on 17.  Just couldn’t get anything going.  I hit a few good shots.  I birdied the first and then hit a really good shot into the second and it just dribbled over the back of the green and I ended up making bogey.  That’s probably not the start you want when you’re five back.  Yeah, a bit of a long day in that regard, but lots of positives to take, especially out of today.

Q.  You said yesterday you’re not going to use tiredness as an excuse anymore, but are you proud of the title defence?  Sort of gave it ‑‑ roared into contention on Friday with that 65?

CAMERON SMITH:  Yeah, yeah, it was a good week, I just wish I, you know, could play that first round again.  That kind of ‑‑ just a bit of a bummer of a start really.  It’s hard to come back from a start like that.  Played some pretty solid golf the rest of the week and couldn’t quite get it done, but yeah, it’s all right.

Q.  What did you hit on the second hole that ran out the left side there?

CAMERON SMITH:  5‑iron.

Q.  Okay.  What’s your plans now, Cam?  What’s your first tournament back after Christmas?

CAMERON SMITH:  Playing the Sony Open in Hawaii, and then it’s a pretty busy stretch for me actually.  From there, probably play four out of six or seven weeks.  Spend a little bit of time at home over in Jackson.  Yeah, just trying ‑‑ that west coast has typically been pretty good to me, so with the golf I’m playing here, as long as I stay on top of my game, I think I should go all right.

Q.  You’re 53rd in the world.  You want to get inside that Top‑50 to get in the Masters?

CAMERON SMITH:  Yeah, that’s going to be the goal.  That’s probably not the long‑term goal, but yeah, I definitely want to be at the Masters.  That’s on everyone’s mind, for sure.

Q.  Seeing maroon following you around today as well, that must have been nice to see. 

CAMERON SMITH:  Yeah, it was good.  I think most of the guys up at Wantima know that I wear maroon on the last day, so yeah, it’s nice for them to come out and support with maroon shirts.

Q.  Tell us about your week.  How was your experience coming back to defend?

CAMERON SMITH:  It’s been a good week.  It’s always a good week down here.  Probably a bit of a long week with the tiredness, but I still had plenty of time with the family and plenty of time to go to the beach and all that stuff.  It’s always a good week.

Q.  Cam, when you look at the way you started at the Australian Open to now, do you think you found a bit of a groove with your game?

CAMERON SMITH:  Yeah.

Q.  You’re just battling the swing a little bit?

CAMERON SMITH:  Yeah, I think I probably ‑‑ I probably could have prepared better for the Aussie Open.  I had, you know, two or three weeks off before then and didn’t really do much practice, so I knew it was going to be a little bit rusty and I just couldn’t quite get my swing working. 

But the last two weeks have been really good.  Last week, hit the ball great, and then this week I hit the ball great again and just couldn’t really get the putts to drop and couldn’t really get any kind of momentum going three out of the four days.