September 6, 2009
An Interview With:
ANGELA STANFORD
ANGELA STANFORD: No. 3, bogey, I hit
a 9-iron in to probably 35 feet and 3-putted.
4 I doubled. I just didn't hit a very good
gap wedge from the fairway and it plugged in the
bunker, chipped it and missed a 4-footer for bogey.
Birdied 9. Driver, 6-iron, little pitching
wedge to like ten feet.
11, I hit a little 7-iron to probably ten feet
again.
17, hit driver off the tee box to probably 40
feet from the flag, but I was kind of short of the flag
and off the green, and I chipped in for eagle.
DANA GROSS-RHODE: Another great round, a
Top-10 finish and you were talking about loving
Canada, as well as you've done here the last
couple of years. What do you think it is about
Canada?
ANGELA STANFORD: I think every time I
come to Canada, the fans are great, the sponsor is
wonderful, I mean, CN is one of our best sponsors.
They treat us great. I haven't not liked a golf
course yet in Canada.
And this golf course is actually the one, the
first of the week, I was like, man, it finally
happened, I'm finally playing a course that I don't
like up here. But it kind of grew on me as the week
went on. I don't know, I enjoyed playing here and
it was a great week again.
Q.
The gap between you and the
leader -ANGELA STANFORD: Something had to
happen fast. If you're five back starting the day,
you need to make up as much ground as quickly
as possible and I went the other direction. I just
thought, you know, just hit one shot at a time and if
anything, get back to par. Because I haven't
played many four-round events that I don't have a
round over par. So that was kind of what was
motivating me out there.
I knew I wasn't going to win at some point,
and just decided that I would really like to just get it
back to par for the day and just try to not have the
round over par for the week.
Q. And you do come away with two of
the more memorable shots that the fans will
remember, the putt yesterday and the chip
today.
ANGELA STANFORD: We got to 17 and
I'm like, why not. You know, we need a birdie. We
don't have anything to lose and we got really lucky
because I hit a really good shot but then the
wind -- the flag is on the grandstand behind the
green, shifted three different times; and I got lucky
when I hit it, it was blowing down and left and I just
chipped it in.
Q. (Thoughts on chasing Suzann).
ANGELA STANFORD:
I guess so.
Obviously you want to win, but at that point when I
realized that I wasn't going to win, you obviously
want to be second. Suzann -- I think Suzann won
the tournament yesterday and the way she played
yesterday in the wind, it created such a gap, I got
off to a bad start; I feel very good about how I
finished, since it was such a bad start.
Q. Was the wind more subtle today
than the first three days? Did you have to be a
little bit careful today, because from time to
time, it would gust a little bit or it was a little
more inconsistent perhaps over course of the
round.
ANGELA STANFORD: Yeah, I would say
more inconsistent. I felt like it wasn't blowing as
hard on the front or kicked up once I made the
turn, and it was going, you know, it would shift
knew and then be with you and so it was more
inconsistent today than any other day of the week.
DANA GROSS-RHODE: Angela, another
great finish, congratulations.
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