Q.  One of those days, huh?

ADAM SCOTT:  I just was out of sorts out there.  I lost my rhythm after the first hole.  I thought I had two nice shots there and missed and then I really struggled on the front nine.  I hit some really bad drives that I left and didn’t scramble.  Not that I was really chipping either, I was coming in with full stuff for my thirds.  I didn’t play very good.

Q.  Do you put that down to competitive rust. You haven’t played since Aida, have you?

ADAM SCOTT:  No.  I hope so.  I kind of got it feeling a little bit better, but it’s always hard to put it right back in the slot when you’re out there and you’ve been pulling them and then you want to aim further left or whatever.  But, I felt a little better on my back nine and I couldn’t get a putt to go down, so hopefully a quick start tomorrow.  It’s much nicer to start off the 10th than the 1st, much more friendly. You can get off to a good start on the back nine and hopefully by the end of the day I can be in the red figures and start my climb.

Q.  How much of the smoke affects you personally, could you sense it?

ADAM SCOTT:  I’m used to it after the last few days.  I’ve been acclimatising.

Q.  Some of the guys who played in the morning, when they came back, said that their eyes were stinging and they were finding it hard to breathe.  The afternoon looked even worse than the morning.

ADAM SCOTT:  It got pretty thick for a while; it still is.  It’s not great.  The first day here my eyes, on Tuesday, my eyes were really stinging.   I don’t know.  I was joking that I need to cleanse, but it feels like I should shove a bit of salt water up my nose or something and try and rinse myself out.  Obviously not the conditions we want to be playing in.  You kind of hope for rain.

Q.  Can you do anything different to combat that tomorrow, combat the conditions?  Is there anything you can do?

ADAM SCOTT:  Maybe wear a mask, I don’t know.  Does it work?  I’ll have to do my research tonight.  I don’t know what we can do.  We can’t do much.  It’s the same for everyone and we’re out here playing, so you’ve got to get on with it.

Q.  Did it feel more like a rhythm thing or was it technical?

ADAM SCOTT:  Rhythm, it felt very quick from the top on a few swings.  My thought was to try and clear my hips, but I think I was clearing everything but.  I was a bit out of sorts.  About the 9th I kind of managed to find a bit of feeling, but I didn’t have a lot of feeling out there, which is tough to play, especially because it was windy and didn’t give you a lot of room for error on your start lines and I paid the price a few times.

Q.  Are you confident you can turn it around tomorrow?

ADAM SCOTT:  Yes, absolutely.  It’s nice to just find my feet eventually out there, although the score didn’t get much better on the back nine, I feel like, okay, at least I know kind of where it’s going now and we can chip away at this thing.  If I can maybe set myself a target of under par every nine for the next three days, one hot nine in there with that, it might get me up somewhere near the mark.  It’s going to take a little bit better play and certainly a bit better mental focus than I had today.