Player Diary :
Jennifer Rosales

Jennifer Rosales is a graduate of the University of Southern California and has been on the LPGA Tour since 2000.  Her first victory came this year at the Chick-fil-A Charity Championship hosted by Nancy Lopez.

Her record in the U.S. Open consists of one top 10 in 2002, when she finished tied for seventh, and two top 15s -- a tie for 12^th in her first Open in 2000 and a tie for 13^th last year. After entering the fourth round with a three-stroke lead, Rosales shot a 4-over 75 to finish at 3-under 281 and in fourth place.

Meg [Mallon] played unbelievable golf today.  She deserved to win, she played awesome and she gets all the credit.

For me, I was felling pretty good when the day started.  I was hitting it well on the range and thought I had it.  I don't know what happened; I guess it just wasn't for me today.

What was a good tournament was a really tough day for me. I was just grinding out there; probably I grinded so much that I was trying to hard I couldn't make anything.  I tried to make things change, but it wasn't going my way. 

I was good about not forcing anything, but I had a few bad brakes and still hit good shots.  On seven I thought it was going to be faster than that and my ball ended up short and I lipped out the putt. And on eight my ball was in a divot and I just chunked it a little bit, which left me with a difficult putt, which I didn't make.

It hard to believe how many putts I missed today from 8 feet and 6 feet that didn't even hit the hole. I was so upset because I never miss those putts; I miss probably one in a round or in a week and today I couldn't find the hole, couldn't find the feel.

To tell you the truth I couldn't feel anything. That's when I started worrying because I should feel something in this situation.  I was just stunned, shocked the way that everything turned out.

It was kind of frustrating to look at it all day, but you have to live with it. That's golf.  Everything was shut down after the eighth hole, I just couldn't figure out what happened to me out there, it was just a tough day.

It's hard to take right now, it's going to take a while for me to get rid of this feeling, but what can I do I just have to shake it off and go on.

I did learn out of today that you can't take anything for granted. Always hope for the best, which I did today.  I thought I had it and it was in the palm of my hand and it just slipped away.