An interview with:

KARRIE WEBB

Q. General comments about the round?

KARRIE WEBB: Well, actually, I'm still pretty shocked myself because the way I hit it today, really, for the way I led up into this tournament is totally out of the blue.

I think you probably got  -- i don't know. I don't know, sometimes I get a little too (inaudible) but I was introduced from Boynton Beach, Florida, not Australia.

And I made bogey -- and then bogeyed the next hole, and I really didn't get into  -- after the first two holes, I really just didn't get into the flow of the course. I felt like I hadn't been on the course, even though I felt like I couldn't be better prepared for the tournament.

I felt great going into today. I thought if not any, I had as good a chance to win this year as I have in the past two, so it's just really out of the blue.

Q. First time you've been introduced as a Floridian?

KARRIE WEBB: Not that I have any objections to living in Florida, but I'm not from there. I love it there, but I'm not from there.

Q. (Inaudible) 8th green?

KARRIE WEBB: The 8th green, I think I did that a couple times today.

Q. What was going through your mind  --

KARRIE WEBB: Just what I just told you. I'm miffed at how things went today. I really didn't expect it.

Q. (Inaudible)

? KARRIE WEBB: I hit it in the front bunker and hit it over the back into the bushes and had to take an unplayable and do the same thing again. I couldn't see. That's a pretty deep bunker. I couldn't see anything.

Q. (Inaudible)

? KARRIE WEBB: I hit a fat 8-iron.

Q. Did any of the hoopla surrounding you affect you?

KARRIE WEBB: No, I'm always extremely nervous on the first tee of a U.S.  Open, and I was today, and I think it's tough playing a par 3 as a first hole, especially under the circumstances, and I was in between clubs as well so  -- but, you know, I think  -- you know, I look back, and I don't know how things would have turned out, but if I made a 3- or 4-footer for par in the first, I don't know if I would have missed the fairway in the next hole. It just wasn't meant to go well today.

Q. Was there ever a point where you felt, maybe I'm turning it around?

KARRIE WEBB: When I birdied 17 and I hit two pretty good shots into 18 and two fairly decent shots down 1, but then, you know, I just had four holes in a row  -- five holes in a row, really, where it didn't even touch the face of the golf course.

Q. (Inaudible) distance control today?

KARRIE WEBB: No, I just wasn't hitting it very straight. I knew that there was long grass out there, but in practice hadn't come close to hitting in it, and I was in it so many times today it was ridiculous.

Q. (Inaudible)

? KARRIE WEBB: It didn't really throw me off but, I don't know, I like being  -- i like hearing that I'm from Australia. I'm proud about that.

Q. They should at least introduce you as the Open champion?

KARRIE WEBB: Yeah.

Q. You said you were in between clubs. What clubs?

KARRIE WEBB: 8 and 9. As it turned out, I probably could have comfortably hit a 9, but it's hard to say you're going to hit a hard 9 first swing of the day. I'd rather hit a hard driver.

Q. (Inaudible) tomorrow?

KARRIE WEBB: I think I'll have to play my butt off to make the cut, I think.

Q. (Inaudible) anything change?

KARRIE WEBB: Obviously things changed. I don't know what it was. If I did, I wouldn't have hit so many off the planet today, but I'm going to go to the range. I don't want to be there too long because I got to tee off soon, so hopefully I can work a few things out and shoot a few under tomorrow and at least play in the weekend.

Q. Did you talk to your caddy at all  --

KARRIE WEBB: I think he was just as miffed as I was. I asked him on the 8th hole if he saw anything, and the only thing he saw was that I wasn't swinging aggressively, but I don't know where it was going.