Q.  As you see on the TV there, you’ve played in all sorts of weather conditions, but nothing like the smoke.

PAUL CASEY:  As I said, Angie just said, was it tough?  Honestly, I don’t care about me, as I said, you’ve got to feel for the people who are right next to the fires.  We’re hundreds of kilometres away.  So, you’re not going to hear me complain about it because I’m not in a position to complain.  Apart from stinging eyes, it has no effect on our golf out there.  It was just a difficult golf course though.  The first time I’ve had to play it with a scorecard in my hand.  It wasn’t even blowing very hard today, but I found it really tricky.

Q.  No bogeys though?

PAUL CASEY:  That was good, a lot of par saves though, John you saw that.  I know, I ballsed up 17.  The thing I found tricky and surprising was probably the slowest greens I’ve ever, ever putted on down here.  Normally we come down here and they’re lightening fast, but they don’t need to be that quick around here because of the amount of pitch on them.  But all of us struggled with pace, everybody in the group.  Scotty left a lot short in the jaws.  In a weird way, it made the par saves easier, but making the birdies tougher, in a weird kind of way.

Q.  What did please you about your round?  What was the strong point of your game?

PAUL CASEY:  As John said, no bogeys.  I don’t know the course that well, I’m still learning it.  You’ve got to be a good ball striker around here, not only for tee shots but with the slopes on the greens and the contours, you’ve got to put the ball in the right spots and I did a pretty good job of that.  But I only had three birdie chances really in the first 12 holes, which is – I don’t want to say that’s not very good, but also it’s very difficult.  The highlight, the shot on – I don’t even know what hole it is, what’s the par 5, 14?  Tidy wasn’t it?

Q.  Dinner will be nice tonight?

PAUL CASEY:  Yeah, but short turn around for tomorrow, 7.05.  Did Kevin just shoot 6-under?

KATHIE SHEARER:  6-under, yes.

PAUL CASEY:  He’s not even a pro.

Q.   You can build on that anyway, can’t you, a good solid start?

PAUL CASEY:  Yeah, it’s a good solid start.  I didn’t play my way out of it or anything like that, so a good solid start.  I don’t know, I’ve not looked at the forecast or anything tomorrow, hopefully we’ve got favourable wind, receptive greens and I put it in the right places and I make some birdies.  Because I’m going to need to make more birdies than three per round I want to challenge, because it’s tough to keep clean scorecards around here.  I need more, for lack of a better term, offence.

Q.  How are you going to get more?  What would you do differently if you could have your time out there again today?

PAUL CASEY:  It’s already gone, I don’t know.  We’ll worry about tomorrow now because the pin positions will be different.  That’s the thing, they were tricky today and some days it looks like exactly the same golf course to the outsider, but to the guy standing in the middle of the fairway, just simple pin positions being in different locations can suddenly make the world of difference and make it easier, or more difficult.  Today was actually a lot of half shots.  I got a lot of distances slightly out.  I’m still learning how far the golf ball goes down here.  So, it’s all a learning process.

I’m not going to change anything, it’s just a case of – look, I mean, it’s a little bit of madness, isn’t it – don’t change anything, expect different results. It’s the sign of madness.

Q.  You’ve done pretty well, haven’t you?  You’ve done pretty well, you didn’t know the course that well, you’re finding your way around a bit.

PAUL CASEY:  Exactly.  I drove the ball well.  So, drive the ball well again tomorrow and I actually expect, doing the same thing, but I expect a different result based on if I do the same things tomorrow.