BRANDT SNEDEKER: No, no, not at all.
Q. For something I'm working on next week, can you talk about what makes the 10th hole next week so special?
BRANDT SNEDEKER: We don't play in very many like that anymore. We don't play many par-4s that everybody can drive. When I say everybody, I'm on the bottom half of the list in driving distance, and I can still get there.
It's one of those holes where it's a birdie hole, you think it's a birdie hole, but you can easily make a bogey just as quickly as you can make a birdie. It's a great €" if you lay it up, it's a tough, tough wedge shot; it's almost a tougher wedge shot than it is hitting a driver off the tee. That's what's so hard about that hole. That's why you see very few guys lay up, because it's such a difficult second shot if you do lay up.
And if you miss your drive a little bit one way or the other, you just pray you get par and move on. So it's just a great short, strategic hole. We don't see very many like that anymore. I can't think of another hole on TOUR that's like that to be honest with you, that's that demanding. You can see a guy easily walk off with bogey one day and feel like you actually stole one and should have had double, and you can easily walk off with an eagle one day and say, yeah, that's the way you're supposed to play that hole. You see very few holes that play that dramatically different over the course of a week.
Q. What did you hit into 18 yesterday? Did you go for it?
BRANDT SNEDEKER: I did. I had 220, I think, to the hole, and hit a hybrid just to the right, didn't get up-and-down.
Q. Where did the shot end up?
BRANDT SNEDEKER: It was just to the right of the green kind of in between the fairway and the bunker in the rough over there.
Q. So just short of €" you were short?
BRANDT SNEDEKER: Just short of the bunker, yeah.
Q. Was there a debate between laying up and going for it?
BRANDT SNEDEKER: Not really, no. I was so far back I needed to €" I wasn't going to protect my 8th place or 9th place finish. There's nothing really great there.
Q. When you're coming in from like 220 with that front left pin, is it accessible with a hybrid?
BRANDT SNEDEKER: Yeah, definitely. I think that's one thing about today's technology that's great, those 220, 225 shots where you used to be hitting 2-irons, the ball had no chance of stopping. Now with hybrids we can actually get pretty close and put a lot of height on them and get them to come down real soft.
Q. Even with your win, depending on where you travel and where you are at any one time, do you hear people talk just as much about seeing you at Torrey Pines, because that was really your coming-out party?
BRANDT SNEDEKER: I get more about Torrey Pines and Augusta than I ever do about my win. So that's a great thing. I think it's €" you'll be a winner if you win, hopefully I'll win a lot about here and people will know me for the wins, but right now being 10-under through 10 out here and shooting 61 my rookie year was something that kind of burst me on the scene a little bit and then obviously Augusta. But I do; I come to San Diego and people recognize me and say hello. Say, we loved seeing you here a couple years ago; play well again. That's great. Any time you get a place like that and a fan base that actually care about you and love seeing you play golf, that's exciting.
That's why I like coming here; it's one of my favorite tournaments, and hopefully I can make them €" shoot a couple better than I did last time and actually win the golf tournament so they actually have something to remember me by instead of just finishing third or whatever it was.
MARK WILLIAMS: I wanted to ask you about late last year, the Disney Children's Miracle Network, you got to play with your brother, which is pretty unique on the TOUR. What was that experience like, and I gee it's going to happen again this year with Pat Perez and his brother. What advice would you give them, if any?
BRANDT SNEDEKER: It was very special. It was a dream come true for us to be able to do that. My brother was a good college golfer and decided to become an attorney and have a stable job instead of coming out here and living and dying by each putt.
We had a great time. He played €" considering he actually had a working job, he actually played very well. It was a little nerve wracking first four or five holes. I was more nervous than he was, I think. Just something I can't put into words; something we'll have forever. We have a great photo album for the week, and all of our family was down, just one of those special things you'll never get to do again.
For Pat, I'll probably find him out here today and try to talk to him a little bit. It's one of those things where you kind of almost have to €" I said it was great to play with him, but just for his safety, but just so he knew he was getting involved with, but for me I was more worried about him than I was about playing the golf tournament. It's one of those things.
But you can't €" Pat, they'll have a good time. Hopefully the temper gets under control and they'll have a good time for two days. Mike is a great guy. Mike has been playing golf. I've known Mike for a long time. He's a terrific golfer. He's (http://www.golfonline.jp/) just as good as Pat is, so hopefully he can parlay that into some really good golf and end up being out here next year.
Q. Are you going to tell Pat that to his face?
BRANDT SNEDEKER: Yes. I have no problem telling Pat that to his face. I might start running the other way when I tell him.
Q. For something I'm working on next week, can you talk about what makes the 10th hole next week so special?
BRANDT SNEDEKER: We don't play in very many like that anymore. We don't play many par-4s that everybody can drive. When I say everybody, I'm on the bottom half of the list in driving distance, and I can still get there.
It's one of those holes where it's a birdie hole, you think it's a birdie hole, but you can easily make a bogey just as quickly as you can make a birdie. It's a great €" if you lay it up, it's a tough, tough wedge shot; it's almost a tougher wedge shot than it is hitting a driver off the tee. That's what's so hard about that hole. That's why you see very few guys lay up, because it's such a difficult second shot if you do lay up.
And if you miss your drive a little bit one way or the other, you just pray you get par and move on. So it's just a great short, strategic hole. We don't see very many like that anymore. I can't think of another hole on TOUR that's like that to be honest with you, that's that demanding. You can see a guy easily walk off with bogey one day and feel like you actually stole one and should have had double, and you can easily walk off with an eagle one day and say, yeah, that's the way you're supposed to play that hole. You see very few holes that play that dramatically different over the course of a week.
Q. What did you hit into 18 yesterday? Did you go for it?
BRANDT SNEDEKER: I did. I had 220, I think, to the hole, and hit a hybrid just to the right, didn't get up-and-down.
Q. Where did the shot end up?
BRANDT SNEDEKER: It was just to the right of the green kind of in between the fairway and the bunker in the rough over there.
Q. So just short of €" you were short?
BRANDT SNEDEKER: Just short of the bunker, yeah.
Q. Was there a debate between laying up and going for it?
BRANDT SNEDEKER: Not really, no. I was so far back I needed to €" I wasn't going to protect my 8th place or 9th place finish. There's nothing really great there.
Q. When you're coming in from like 220 with that front left pin, is it accessible with a hybrid?
BRANDT SNEDEKER: Yeah, definitely. I think that's one thing about today's technology that's great, those 220, 225 shots where you used to be hitting 2-irons, the ball had no chance of stopping. Now with hybrids we can actually get pretty close and put a lot of height on them and get them to come down real soft.
Q. Even with your win, depending on where you travel and where you are at any one time, do you hear people talk just as much about seeing you at Torrey Pines, because that was really your coming-out party?
BRANDT SNEDEKER: I get more about Torrey Pines and Augusta than I ever do about my win. So that's a great thing. I think it's €" you'll be a winner if you win, hopefully I'll win a lot about here and people will know me for the wins, but right now being 10-under through 10 out here and shooting 61 my rookie year was something that kind of burst me on the scene a little bit and then obviously Augusta. But I do; I come to San Diego and people recognize me and say hello. Say, we loved seeing you here a couple years ago; play well again. That's great. Any time you get a place like that and a fan base that actually care about you and love seeing you play golf, that's exciting.
That's why I like coming here; it's one of my favorite tournaments, and hopefully I can make them €" shoot a couple better than I did last time and actually win the golf tournament so they actually have something to remember me by instead of just finishing third or whatever it was.
MARK WILLIAMS: I wanted to ask you about late last year, the Disney Children's Miracle Network, you got to play with your brother, which is pretty unique on the TOUR. What was that experience like, and I gee it's going to happen again this year with Pat Perez and his brother. What advice would you give them, if any?
BRANDT SNEDEKER: It was very special. It was a dream come true for us to be able to do that. My brother was a good college golfer and decided to become an attorney and have a stable job instead of coming out here and living and dying by each putt.
We had a great time. He played €" considering he actually had a working job, he actually played very well. It was a little nerve wracking first four or five holes. I was more nervous than he was, I think. Just something I can't put into words; something we'll have forever. We have a great photo album for the week, and all of our family was down, just one of those special things you'll never get to do again.
For Pat, I'll probably find him out here today and try to talk to him a little bit. It's one of those things where you kind of almost have to €" I said it was great to play with him, but just for his safety, but just so he knew he was getting involved with, but for me I was more worried about him than I was about playing the golf tournament. It's one of those things.
But you can't €" Pat, they'll have a good time. Hopefully the temper gets under control and they'll have a good time for two days. Mike is a great guy. Mike has been playing golf. I've known Mike for a long time. He's a terrific golfer. He's (http://www.golfonline.jp/) just as good as Pat is, so hopefully he can parlay that into some really good golf and end up being out here next year.
Q. Are you going to tell Pat that to his face?
BRANDT SNEDEKER: Yes. I have no problem telling Pat that to his face. I might start running the other way when I tell him.