Q.  Well, Carl, an extraordinary round.  How do you feel after that?

YUAN YECHUN:  It was a great day, honestly.  I played great, played smart, stick to the plan.  I was fortunate enough that I got a couple of really long putts dropped through the round.  Yeah, I made two little mistakes, but really pulled myself together and kept it going.

Q.  What was your plan?

YUAN YECHUN:  The plan, more like a strategy through the course, we really executed well.  Even I was playing good on the front nine, but we didn’t really try anything too aggressive or stupid on the back nine.

Q.  You missed the cut here last year?

YUAN YECHUN:  Yes.

Q.  What did you learn from I guess that?  How’s the course sort of ‑‑ have you set your game up to play well this week?

YUAN YECHUN:  Second time playing here.  Definitely, it was helpful playing here last year.  I know the course a lot better and my strategy, the holes change a bit and it really paid off.  I’m more used to the wind here now since I played here last year.  It’s a little different sometimes because change directions.  Just got to really be patient and hit shot by shot here.

Q.  Can you talk us through I guess 15 and 16?  I guess up to that point you were maybe 8 or 9 under for the day, or maybe 7 or 8.  What happened at 15, and then talk us through 16 as well.

YUAN YECHUN:  I just hit a bad drive on 15 and pulled it left in the hazard, yeah.  Had a par putt and barely missed.  No. 16, hit a good shot into the green, just missed a short one for par there, yeah.

Q.  So to bounce back with a birdie at 17, did you sort of ‑‑ do you feel like a bit of a let down after two bogeys or did you ‑‑

YUAN YECHUN:  No, no.  It was going good at first and I got some fortunate breaks, I have to say that.  I knew if I was hitting the ball good, if I just keep it playing.  And, you know, on 17 I hit a great drive.  It was a tough driving hole, and then put myself in great position to set up the approach shot.  I hit it great to four feet and really committed to the putt, so that was a great bounce‑back for me.

Q.  Can I ask about playing in Sheshan?  Did you get to there through the China Tour?  How did you get into that field?

YUAN YECHUN:  It was an invitation, like an exemption for top‑ranked Chinese player and they gave ‑‑ the China Golf Association gave like six spots for us to play in.

Q.  What was that ‑‑ who did you play with that week and what was that like for you?

YUAN YECHUN:  It was my second time playing actually, so I knew the course a little better.  I got to play with Phil Mickelson on Saturday.  That was awesome.  He has unbelievable short game.  Yeah, that was great.  And learn a lot from that and got a lot of confidence from playing with the big boys.

Q.  Growing up, when did you start playing and who were your idols?  Who did you look up to?

YUAN YECHUN:  I started playing when I was 9 or 10.  Well, I didn’t watch that much golf, but yeah, I knew Tiger was the guy, yeah.  He’s something, so I tried to be as good as him, but hope one day I can get close.

Q.  How do you sit with the ‑‑ I guess within the Chinese players in terms of rankings for the Olympics?  Is the Olympics something that you’re ‑‑

YUAN YECHUN:  Yeah, for sure.  Representing my country to play Olympics was definitely one of my top goals for my career.  Just got to keep playing good golf and I have a shot at it.  It’s six months, so yeah.

Q.  And you’ve got full Korn Ferry status next year to keep your card?

YUAN YECHUN:  Yeah.

Q.  So that’s ‑‑ obviously you see your career playing in the States for the future?

YUAN YECHUN:  Um‑hmm.

CAMERON CHAMP:  I felt pretty good.  I played pretty well, I just burned a lot of edges.  You know, that’s how it goes sometimes.  I’ll just keep firing away.  Swing feels a little bit better.  Energy‑wise I feel a little bit better, so I’m just looking forward to the next two days.

Q.  Are you still adjusting to the jet lag?

CAMERON CHAMP:  I think I’m good now.  Each day has been getting better and today I feel more energised and it kind of showed.  Obviously the putter didn’t really come alive, but if I keep hitting it like I am, putts will fall.

Q.  What do you have to do to sort of ‑‑ all the guys told us how tricky it is to make putts from any kind of range around this golf course.  How are you finding I guess those 10‑, 15‑footers that you might pour in at other courses?  Do you find it tricky to get the read right around here?

CAMERON CHAMP:  Yeah, I mean, that’s all it ever is.  It’s just, I’m just hitting good putts, I rimmed like three or four putts.  If I hit it a tad bit softer, it goes in.  If I hit it a little bit harder, it goes in.  So it’s just like I said, it’s one of those days.  My reads felt pretty good.  I maybe over‑read a few, but besides that, I’m just going to keep doing what I’m doing

Q.  Just talk us through that, a bit of momentum early and carried it through.  Give us just the highlights.

ANTHONY QUAYLE:  It was a little rough early, to be honest.  I was 1 over through the first couple and then bounced back with a nice birdie on 12, which was my third.  Then I actually hit it in the water off the tee on 13.  I dropped it 100 meters off the tee and still made par.  Then after that it kind of got the round going a little bit.

Q.  Is that what you find around here, that once you pick up a couple and you get the reads and the speed right, that you can pour a few in?

ANTHONY QUAYLE:  I think so.  The greens can be a little tricky to read out here.  I’ve played out here a bunch so I have a pretty good feeling on them and it just comes back to confidence, once you start seeing a few going in, you just sit back and let it happen a little bit more.  But when you’re missing a few putts, it’s very easy to keep missing them or just get a little bit needy with the putter.  Yeah, once they started going in, it was pretty easy.

Q.  Tell us how your head space is going into the weekend and compared to six months ago when I guess things were tough through Japan there?

ANTHONY QUAYLE:  Yeah, I don’t want to say I’m a different person because I think I’ve just developed.  I don’t want to ever shy away from how I struggled earlier this year.  I think that is part of why I am who I am. 

I just think going through that has made me a lot tougher at the moment mentally, and any opportunity like this, you just enjoy it and have a little bit of fun.  Obviously getting married on Sunday, it’s kind of just ‑‑ to be honest, this week is a little bit of a holiday for me.  I plan to keep it that way, just keep having a little bit of fun with it.

Q.  I think that’s how Cam treats it and it works pretty well for him.

ANTHONY QUAYLE:  Yeah.

Q.  Maybe that’s the secret to playing well around Royal Pines?

ANTHONY QUAYLE:  Yeah, it might be.  If I could get any tips off him, that would be great.

Q.  How did you bring yourself out of that difficult period?  How did you sort of turn it around lately?

ANTHONY QUAYLE:  It wasn’t any one thing, it was a bunch of different things.  A big part of it was just trying to enjoy what I was doing again and it took a couple weeks for that work, to come to fruition.  So I feel like I was doing quite a good job, and just when you’re in that rut, it continues to go that way a little bit. 

Then eventually it just clicked, I guess.  I had the right people around me.  I had a good caddie on the bag, kept chatting to my coach.  And then obviously the lead‑up to the wedding the last month or so, just getting a bit excited helped as well.

Q.  What are you guys doing sort of as your pseudo‑honeymoon like away from the golf course?  Out to dinner and things like that?

ANTHONY QUAYLE:  A little bit this week, yeah.  To be honest, we’re both pretty tired.  We said this morning, can we just sit back and have some room service tonight, so I think that might be the plan.  Yeah, just relax the next few days.

Q.  The wedding ring, do you wear it under your glove or not?

ANTHONY QUAYLE:  Yeah, I think a good finish this week I might have to keep it on there every time I play.

Q.  Does it feel different?

ANTHONY QUAYLE:  To be honest, I thought it would, but I went to the range and hit a few on Tuesday and I forgot I had it on after three or four shots, so it’s been fine.

Q.  What did you do on the 15th, mate, to set up the eagle?

ANTHONY QUAYLE:  I hit driver and then I hit a strong 6‑iron into 35 feet pin high right and holed the putt.

Q.  Was that the best of your holes would you have said like individually getting ‑‑

ANTHONY QUAYLE:  No, the biggest hole today was easily the 13th.  I hit it in the water off the tee and I was about 100 ‑‑ I dropped it maybe 100, maybe 150 meters off the tee and hit 2‑iron from 245 into about 25 feet and holed that for par.

Q.  25 feet, wow.  Where’s the drop on 13?

ANTHONY QUAYLE:  Yeah, so there’s two little islands that come out, so on the second island is 150 meters off the tee, yeah.  If it’s gone over there with a little bit of a slice, it hasn’t carried the water.

Q.  Scotty knocked it in the water on day one.  He had a problem.

ANTHONY QUAYLE:  Yeah, it’s a tough hole.

Q.  It is a tough hole.  A couple players have said just their experience playing around here a lot is quite helpful.  Do you feel that yourself?

ANTHONY QUAYLE:  I think so.

Q.  It gives you a little bit of something extra?

ANTHONY QUAYLE:  We play out here a little bit whenever we can, and also we practice on greens that are similar and courses that are similar.  Yeah, I think it does have an advantage.  People coming from ‑‑ even, to be honest, coming from Japan to here, it’s a completely different style of golf, but it’s what I’ve grown up on so I feel pretty comfortable. 

But a lot of the guys who might come from further south and play on different grasses and not so much the resort‑style course, it definitely takes a little time to get used to.

Q.  Is there any competition amongst the Sanctuary Cove mafia this week?  There’s about six or seven of you out here.

ANTHONY QUAYLE:  Yeah, I think there’s always a pretty friendly camaraderie.  We all practice together and have little chipping comps or putting comps or play a couple matches out at Sanctuary Cove.  So we’re always keeping an eye on what we’re doing, but we all want each other to do well as well.  Generally, if everybody’s playing pretty well, it eggs the other person on to keep trying to do well, too.

Q.  Who’s out there?  You’ve got Brad Kennedy?

ANTHONY QUAYLE:  Brad Kennedy, Corey Crawford, Kade McBride, Dylan Perry, Sam Price.  I’ll get in trouble if I forget anyone now.  Yeah, a fair few.

Q.  I’ll get a list of them.

ANTHONY QUAYLE:  We’ve got a bunch out there, but Brad and Dylan both play up in Japan, so it’s good to have them back there as well.

Q.  Great round today.  You really dragged yourself back into the tournament, didn’t you?

CAMERON SMITH:  Yeah, I kind of knew what I had to do today to get back into it.  I saw Scotty and those guys up there posted a score early and just we want out there and didn’t really play aggressive or anything, just kind of did my stuff.  Yeah, walked away with seven birdies.

Q.  What did you do between the rounds?  Did you do anything special, anything in particular to get yourself up for it? 

CAMERON SMITH:  I had a sleep yesterday afternoon, that was probably the best thing I could have done; had a sleep and then went for a swim down the beach.  Yeah, just refreshed the mind a little bit and didn’t do any practice or anything like that.  I kind of thought it would be a good idea to kind of get away and kind of forget about it.

Q.  The coach said yesterday that you might want to go to the range, might convince you to go over there for a bit.  Was there a discussion at all or did you just say, “I’ll see you tomorrow”?

CAMERON SMITH:  Yeah, there wasn’t really a discussion.  I just said, “I’m too tired to do anything, Col.  We’ll sort it tomorrow on the range.”

Q.  Did you feel any pressure coming in here to get scores?  Do you feel pressure?

CAMERON SMITH:  Not really, though.  I didn’t really want to expect too much out of myself.  I just wanted to go out there with the same game plan as yesterday and just try and execute a little bit better, and I did that well.

Q.  Obviously you’re tired physically, Cam, but just mentally, was it just as important to get yourself back into the right head space?  Scotty said he had to remind himself a few times in the round just to focus on what he was doing.

CAMERON SMITH:  Yeah, I mean, hindsight’s a wonderful thing, I wish I would have done that as well.  It was tough yesterday.  It’s just so draining last week and just so much more attention and stuff like that.  Yeah, I mean, yeah, I mean, what can you say about yesterday?  It’s amazing what a day can do in the game of golf, I suppose.

Q.  How did you feel differently physically today?  During the round, did it feel much different how you felt within yourself?

CAMERON SMITH:  I probably didn’t feel much different physically, but definitely mentally.  I felt like yesterday I was just drained, I was just, you know, couldn’t get into my visualization or wasn’t having a good conversation with my caddie and really dialing in some numbers.  I was just kind of out there going through the motion and that’s just kind of how it panned out.

Q.  (Simultaneous speakers) thought this is going good, this could go real low?

CAMERON SMITH:  Yeah, I suppose through the turn there I knew I was playing some good golf and there was obviously some gettable holes there, you know, a couple par 5s on the back nine.  Yeah, I just thought if I birdie those couple and I would have been quite happy with a couple under on the back mine.  Yeah, just managed to get one more.

Q.  The dream’s alive now, mate, you’re back in the tournament.  Do you now just sleep and not practice all the way through?  Trip to the beach?

CAMERON SMITH:  I’m actually going to the cricket tonight, so I’m going to watch hopefully a good game of cricket.  Hopefully the Heat wins.  Yeah, probably a couple adult beverages and come back, have a good sleep and be ready to go tomorrow.

Q.  The up‑and‑down at 11, was that important to kind of just ‑‑ left there at 11?

CAMERON SMITH:  Yeah, that was big, kind of kept me going a little bit.  Then, you know, didn’t really hit a good drive off the next either and managed to birdie there as well.  Yeah, I mean, rounds like that you have to have momentum, it’s what keeps you going.  Those five, six foot putts that go in, they mean a lot more than probably one shot.

Q.  I guess the round was going really well, just missed the bunker shot at 15, didn’t quite get enough sand out of that one and got you in trouble?

RYAN FOX:  Yeah.  To be fair, it was probably hitting the cameraman that hurt me more on that hole.  So I apparently hit him in the leg and bounced back up the hill when it was a terrible place on a massive down‑slope with a massive flyer lie.  That bunker shouldn’t be in play really apart from where I was, and I didn’t get a great lie and obviously made a mess of it from there, so that kind of halted any momentum.  I was getting a little bit frustrated on the greens anyway up to that point, kind of pushed me on the edge to be honest.

Q.  Yeah, I mean, how far below your stance was the ball on that second shot?

RYAN FOX:  Oh, it was ‑‑ I mean, I hit 8‑iron.  I reckon if that had not have hit the bunker, it would have gone 230 on me because it was sort of a loft of a 4‑iron at that point.  Yeah, just was one of those shots. 

I kind of had no choice.  I was either chipping a wedge down the fairway trying to get up and down from a hundred or try to sneak one on the front of the green, which is what I tried to do.  And I didn’t think making 7 was a possibility from there, but it happens, I guess.

Q.  Momentum into the weekend?  Obviously it’s a nice up‑and‑down on the last, but another untidy one on 17.  How do you sort of turn around tomorrow?

RYAN FOX:  Yeah, look, I’m pretty happy with where everything’s at.  I literally hit one bad shot today, which was the tee shot off 17.  And I didn’t hit a great tee shot off 18, but I didn’t miss a start on my iron shots today, I hit it close.  Had I holed a couple of putts, it would have been significantly better and I would be up with Scotty and Cam and Wade at the top. 

Yeah, I feel like I’m in a good place, I just need to take advantage on the greens and hopefully I don’t have too many other funny things happen.

Q.  Impressed by the way Cam bounced back?

RYAN FOX:  Yeah.  I mean, it was always coming.  I thought he said he played great last week.  No surprise.  First round he might have been just a little bit tired and a little bit frustrated with things, but there was enough signs of it yesterday that he could shoot a low one.  And obviously he’s a world‑class player and he made it look pretty easy today, to be honest.

Q.  Ryan, I know you’re always motivated to win, but when you have Scotty and Cam at the top of the leaderboard, is that a bit more inspiration and a bit of a challenge to make sure you’re getting it right over the weekend?

RYAN FOX:  Yeah, I guess you know with those guys up at the top, you’ve got to do something pretty special.  They’ve both won enough times around the world, they’re not going to come back to you.  It’s a bit of extra motivation to go as low as possible over the weekend and try to at least put a bit of pressure on them. 

And hopefully conditions work out a little bit better with an earlier tee time tomorrow.  You never know around here, it can blow pretty hard, the afternoons can be pretty nasty.  So I’ll try my best and see what happens.

Q.  Can you be aggressive around here, mate?  Do you temper it a little bit?

RYAN FOX:  A little bit, especially around the front.  There’s sort of four through eight is not really a lot you can do.  Everyone’s trying to hit it to the same place, give themselves a short iron or a wedge in and take advantage from there.  But I guess I did it yesterday down six, I hit driver down there.  That’s probably the only one with the right wind you can really have a go at.  The rest of it’s just try to keep it in play and minimize the mistakes.  There’s a lot of places around this golf course you don’t want to be and I found a couple of them today.

Q.  Five under, only one blemish, you must be pretty pleased with where you sit after 36 now.

ADAM SCOTT:  It was a good solid round today, which I needed to kind of stay on the pace.  Generally played really good today, so I’m pretty happy shooting 67.  You should be most times you shoot 67.

Q.  Pacing of the round, did you feel like you were kind of under control?  And, like you say, stress free yesterday, did you feel ‑‑ 

ADAM SCOTT:  Yeah, it was pretty solid.  I pulled a 7‑iron somewhere that I didn’t like very much and made a bogey, but other than that I think I pretty much hit 16 greens today, so it was fairly stress free.  I played fairly defensive into the greens because I thought the pins were actually a little more tucked today and to get it really close you must risk hitting it down some of the big runoffs off these greens.  So I didn’t really want to do that too much and I played safe.  I rolled a lot of nice putts.  A lot went by the edge, but I made a couple as well.

Q.  Is this a different wind than you’re used to?

ADAM SCOTT:  Yeah.  Normally we’ve got the southeast pumping and we got a fairly gentle kind of northeast going on, something like that anyway.  But it just seemed to me more than anything, I mean, it was a very calm morning.  It was a good morning for scoring, but the pins, you had to really dial it in to get it close.  It was kind of a nice, patient round.  Good solid stuff and eventually I sort of wore the course down.

Q.  On 15 you seem to lap it every time you play there.  What is it about that hole?  I mean, today was a really good 40‑footer probably?

ADAM SCOTT:  Yeah, it’s a good opportunity, like nine, you know.  If you get a good drive away, it’s on for getting it in two in this wind, where the other two par 5s are really playing tough because they’re more into the wind.  So, you know, it was a good way to kickstart the round today.  It was a good way to save the round yesterday.  Just shows you there are opportunities late in the round here that you might never be out of it.

Q.  What did you hit on that one today on 15?

ADAM SCOTT:  It was a 4‑iron.  The fairway was very, very wet early this morning.  I don’t know if they accidentally left the sprinklers on on that one to lengthen it out or what happened.

Q.  Trying to keep it back to 330 meters?

ADAM SCOTT:  Yeah, I think it went 310, but it was a really good ‑‑ actually one of my best shots of the day was probably that 4‑iron in there.  Luckily, Min Woo was right on my line and he showed me, he had a good run at eagle and I managed to roll it in.

Q.  What about coming home there with the three birdies, almost another eagle?  Did you kind of have that in your mind that you really needed to cash in?

ADAM SCOTT:  Yeah, after the bogey on four, just felt, you know, I need to get moving a little bit here.  Two under’s not going to put me up there far enough.  Nice shot into six and a good putt on 7.  Unfortunately, I hit a poor tee shot on eight and lucky break on nine, good shot in and a solid putt.  I mean, that pin on nine is a beauty today.

Q.  Did you get to watch any cricket much?  Was it yourself that asked for the scheduling of the Big Bash game down here just so you could?  Are you going to go watch it?

ADAM SCOTT:  I haven’t made any plans.  I know a lot of my mates are, so we’ll see if I can get a ticket last minute.

Q.  So you missed out on one PGA, didn’t you, with that cricket injury?

ADAM SCOTT:  I don’t know.  I dislocated my knee one year down the beach.  Was that why I missed it?

Q.  It must have been.

ADAM SCOTT:  I think so.

Q.  Once you hit Sunday, I’m gathering complete holiday.  What are you planning holiday‑wise?

ADAM SCOTT:  I’ll just stick around home here.  I’ll spend Christmas with my folks here on the coast and then we’ll go up to the other coast after that.  I’ll be here until kind of late January.  I think I’ve got three full weeks off before a trainer or a coach or anyone shows up, so I’ll enjoy that.

Q.  Now that you’re in contention heading into the weekend, you talked about how you want to break that drought, can you feel that hunger sort of increase?

ADAM SCOTT:  Yeah, it will be good for me to focus up for two more days.  I thought I was good out there today and I need more of the same the next two days.  The focus has been good.  I feel like definitely I’ve got two more days in me.

Q.  You mentioned you’ve got the family here this week.  The prospects of the kids running onto the 18th green, something you probably haven’t had in your career yet, is that any extra motivation?

ADAM SCOTT:  Not really, because I don’t think my wife will let them run out there.

Q.  You wouldn’t call them on?

ADAM SCOTT:  No, not really.

Q.  Wade, you seem to have a really nice feel around this course just from your playoff experience.  You always seem to sort of pop your head up at some stage.  What’s your vibe for the course? 

WADE ORMSBY:  I think three of the last five years I’ve played well around here.  It’s a good course.  Pretty tricky green complexes.  I think if you have seen them a little bit and you know where to hit it, you’ve got a little bit of an advantage.  You just can’t hit darts all day, you’ve got to kind of play the golf course, play the pins and whatever else.  I think that’s probably the reason why I’m kind of around the mark this week.

Q.  Nice birdie at 18, 4 under for that back nine is a great score.  Did you feel like you maybe left a couple on the front there?

WADE ORMSBY:  Yeah.  On No. 3 I hit three perfect shots and just ran up and left myself about a 20‑footer back down the hill down grain.  Just had a go at it and had a six‑footer coming back and missed that.  You don’t want to drop shots that easy, but at the same time I was playing nicely still.  Scorecard doesn’t always reflect how you play, but it was nice to make birdie on the last.

Q.  The tee shot at six, was that kind of the only ‑‑ almost the only fault to the round swing‑wise it looked like?

WADE ORMSBY:  Yeah, exactly.  I was hitting it quite straight, so it was just a little in between clubs there on the tee.  Some indecision led to that one.  But I got a lucky break and the ball was just hovering on some sticks.  I was a little bit skeptical about grounding my club there in case the ball moves.  A little bit tricky coming into that green, so that was a weak bogey there.

Q.  And you chipped from the back of you five and ‑‑ I’m sorry, putted from the back of five.  Were you tempted to chip either of both of those?

WADE ORMSBY:  They were both on downhill lies.  The one on five was just off the green so that was a pretty obvious one.  The one on six, downhill lie, but I think the grain just grabbed it coming up the hill.  So I just didn’t get rolling, hopped up a bit and come up short.  Probably would have played them exactly the same and just hope to get the ball to roll a little bit better there and I wouldn’t have made those mistakes.

Q.  Wade, Adam’s mentioned a couple of times just the frustration missing out in the playoff, and Greg won a few years back.  What was your memories of that moment, yourself?

WADE ORMSBY:  Probably exactly the same as Adam’s, to be honest.  You know, I think the second playoff hole I had a five‑ or six‑, seven‑footer, somewhere in there.  I keep making it sound longer and longer every time I think about it.  But I just pushed that putt so that one annoys me.  I feel like that one got away, that was mine. 

But anyway, can’t change the past.  It’s a completely different golf green there now.  The green’s completely gone, so the memory’s gone .Anyway, it’s nice to be in the hunt final event of the year.

Q.  How far do you and Adam go back?

WADE ORMSBY:  Probably our dads go back longer than what we do, but first started playing golf with him when we were probably 13.  He played and traveled the world junior, so same age.  You kind of play a lot of stuff together up until you’re probably 20 years of age, and then he went to Europe and he’s gone to different levels of the game.  But no, we still try to catch up everywhere we go.

Q.  When was the last time you even played with him? 

WADE ORMSBY:  I played with him and Sergio I reckon two years ago here the first two rounds.

Q.  What’s your dad’s name?

WADE ORMSBY:  Peter Ormsby.  And obviously Scotty’s from Adelaide originally, so that’s how far it goes back. 

Q.  Just Vic Open earlier in the year, did that take much to get over?  Obviously that was sort of one that slipped through your fingers towards the end there.  Did it take much to dust that one off?

WADE ORMSBY:  Well, you never like losing them.  You just try to get on with it straightaway and take the positives from it.  I think start of last year I was just trying to get myself in contention a lot more.  Made a few changes in the golf swing.  That was the main reason I did the changes, to get myself in the hunt more and I’ve clearly done that in the last 12 months.  Haven’t converted them yet for wins, but just got to keep on putting yourself in the hunt and that’s what I’ve done the last 12 months.

Q.  There are some terrific Aussies making Europe their world for golf.  As someone who’s been there a long time, what was your appreciation I guess of what Europe offers now in seeing guys like Scriv coming there, and I guess Min Woo?

WADE ORMSBY:  Well, it’s difficult to get your card anywhere.  Europe’s probably one of the only tours where you can go to tour school and get all the way through and get good status straight away from Q‑School, so that’s one big draw card for Europe.

Also has plenty of world ranking points, enough that you can climb your way up the world rankings.  From there, cemented ‑‑ not cemented, but I have no aspiration to really go to America apart from maybe the bigger events, but it’s a great place to play golf.  European Tour’s getting stronger and stronger, and obviously with the results in the Ryder Cup and the guts of the players over there, we’ve got plenty of stronger players so the depth is over there.  I think it’s a great pathway for young blokes to go.

Q.  Tell us about your round, mate.

MIN WOO LEE:  Yeah, a bit scrappy.  A few good things and a few bad things, but all in all a pretty solid day.  I kind of hung there, which is nice, and hopefully I can make a few more birdies and less mistakes tomorrow.

Q.  Can you identify what was the key between yesterday and today?

MIN WOO LEE:  Just a few putts dropped yesterday and that was a bit of a momentum.  Yeah, today just seemed like every time I make a birdie, I’ll follow it up with a bogey, so there was not much momentum there.

Q.  We had some pretty nice words said from Adam on your behalf.  Did he say anything to you at the tee today following your performance yesterday?

MIN WOO LEE:  No.  We just had a nice chat.  That’s nice of him, but yeah, no, we just had a nice chat and a few things that I can’t say and it’s a bit confidential, so I’ll keep it to myself.

Q.  Given your age and given the sport that they showed yesterday, is there any sort of chat?  Were they accommodating with anything?  Do you say much to them?  I know you’re competitors out there, but how does it work?

MIN WOO LEE:  Because he’s obviously playing against me and I’m playing against him, so, you know, it’s kind of strange if I ask for advice because he’s trying to beat me this week.  Maybe afterwards.  But yeah, they’re just very consistent, they really don’t do much wrong.  I think my game, I just need to tidy it up a bit if I want to get to their level.

Q.  What areas specifically?

MIN WOO LEE:  Mostly just with the driver.  They have a stock shot off the tee and they don’t really make many mistakes.  I think just my iron play’s pretty good and I think just driving off the tee.

Q.  How are you feeling headed to tomorrow?

MIN WOO LEE:  Like I said, I’ll just tidy a few things up and I should be fresh for tomorrow.  Today was a pretty quick turnaround, didn’t get too much sleep.  I had to wake about 4:00.  So yeah, hopefully more sleep tonight and we should be good.

Q.  How pleasing is it to stay within touching distance on a day where you can’t really get much momentum going?

MIN WOO LEE:  Yeah, it’s good.  I don’t think Scotty had his A‑game obviously.  But yeah, I don’t know who’s going to be in the lead later on, but it’s nice to just be a few shots ‑‑ yeah, just got to sort things out and should be good.