| [ SportsLeisure ] in KIDS 글 쓴 이(By): birdeee (별사랑이) 날 짜 (Date): 1998년 7월 6일 월요일 오후 12시 45분 59초 제 목(Title): ESPN 타이틀에 박세리 기사가 최근 들어 한국인의 얘기가 1면 탑으로 뜬 적이 거의 없었던 것 같은데... 타이틀은 Age not an issue in Open playoff Twenty-year-olds to play for Open title 입니다. ESPN Zone Poll에서 누가 우승할 것인가를 묻는 투표에서 57%가 박세리를 지지했습니다. 궁금하신 분들을 위해 인터뷰 내용을 올립니다. Rhonda Glenn: I will ask one question; then we will get to you all. How do you feel going into tomorrow? Have you ever been in any kind of playoff before? 18-hole playoff? What is it like? Se Ri Pak: I don't know, I play a playoff before in Korea many time, but different, we just playoff, two hole, three hole, one hole, we can finish. But tomorrow I play 18th hole again. Well, like tomorrow maybe practice round feel because like amateur, like I don't know, but she is my age, same age for me, that is why maybe we are like looks like friends, like more close, like practice round feel, like this. Rhonda Glenn: Questions. Q. This week the course was just tremendous and it had a lot of veteran season players. Do you have any explanation as to how the rookie and the amateur are able to have the lead now going into a 18-hole playoff? It is because the two of you maybe feel less pressure not being the named players that are on the board? Se Ri Pak: Like I am happy because my same age play, like we can play playoff tomorrow the first time. Then maybe we just -- I meet her tomorrow first time maybe, so maybe tomorrow feel like practice round, we are more comfortable on the golf course like this. Q. The putt on 18, did you see -- did it do what you thought it was going to do? Did you miss-hit it or I just want to know your thoughts, whether it was going in or not. Also on No. 9, before you hit the ball in the water, you were unsure about the clubs. I wanted to know which club you were thinking about and what happened on that shot. Se Ri Pak: Yeah, like hole No. 9, like not a bad -- bad lie, deep rough, then I use just like -- I am thinking first time maybe lay-up or I just go because last day I don't have chance anymore. That is why I just like, okay, I go. Then I use my -- I wanted to use my 9-iron, but like maybe a little short because anyway short because deep rough and bad lie. But I want to try. So I just use 9-iron. Then I try, but like maybe short, so changed my clubs, so I use my 8-iron, but anyway short inside the water. So I didn't get mad because last hole I try many chance -- I have to try, the last hole, the last day, then hole No. 18, I know what happened, I make that one. But, I don't want to thinking because I don't know I make it or not, but I try. Every time I play my game, golf is like this, too difficult so.... Q. You have gone to the Qualifying School. You have won tournaments in Korea. You have won a major here. Do you feel you have an advantage tomorrow with a lot of playing experience over your amateur partner? Se Ri Pak: I don't know like -- (laughs) somebody told me anyway I lose but I can keep my checks. I don't want money, but I want the trophy, so tomorrow we don't know, maybe she can win, but I can win. I do my best tomorrow, the same like same play, same thinking like this. So I want to play tomorrow, like practice-round feel, like more comfortable like this, the same age; looks like we are friends. So maybe tomorrow will look good because the same age and playing may be exciting tomorrow. Rhonda Glenn: That is right. She does get the check no matter what. First prize money. Q. Se Ri, when you had that trouble at 3 and then I think you made bogey again at 4 and then you had the problem at 9, did you feel like the tournament was getting away; that your chances were running out to get back into the tournament? Se Ri Pak: No, because I didn't finish yet -- I know before I have many trouble, many big number, many big, like, not good lie, but I have many hole left. That is why I do my best, I play -- keep going, I just want to play; then I try last day, maybe I have chance. That is why I try and try. That is why maybe better the back 9, better than front 9. Q. What do you think are the most challenging things about this course, in particular? Se Ri Pak: First like green. Then big rough, then sometime we hit many driver, but not that much, you know, that much like many landed like deep rough any time, like many bunker, many water. So that is why -- I don't know, everything is difficult like especially not in one time, everything is difficult iron shots, green, driver, everything. Q. On the third hole did you consider taking a drop before you hit out of the slope down there when you were in trouble and what club did you hit coming out of there? Se Ri Pak: Yeah, I thinking maybe I can drop a more good lie, I can make more low score. But maybe not that much it help like that one too. So maybe I hit maybe same -- anyway just -- any I don't have chance, bad lie; then the green, everything is bad. I try and I just want to -- double bogey. I am thinking this is double bogey; this is best score with that lie, so that is like my mind is more comfortable, I make double bogey, so like, you know, golf is like this. Q. What club did you hit? Se Ri Pak: A wedge. Rhonda Glenn: Se Ri, did you see the people in the galleries who had the Korean flags? Se Ri Pak: Yeah, I saw many times because they -- I don't know, today many Korean people is there, so I was more happy, you know, many Korean people they come. Maybe long way drive, but they come and see me then they said: Keep going, yeah, like this. Really happy, they really made me -- help me. |