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In Their Own Words
Rich Beem
2002 PGA Championship winner Rich Beem sat down with reporters at the beginning of this week from the site of the World Golf Championships-NEC Invitational at Sahalee Country Club.
Q. How important is it for you to do well this week coming off this big win last week, last couple of weeks you've played so well, and you're a fan favorite? Is it somewhere that you think you can sustain momentum?
RICH BEEM: I hope so. I'm not going to put any added pressure on me this week to play well just because I've got some friends up here, and some of my family coming over from Idaho -- or I should say my wife's family coming over from Idaho. I'm pretty sure they are going to like me whether I finish dead last or win.
I'm not going to put any extra pressure on myself. I'm just excited to be up here and tee it up. It's a great venue to play. I mean, there's a lot of risk and rewards shots, it seems like, out there. You've got to drive the ball straight here. But I've got no extra pressure because of what the last two weeks -- how I performed there.
Q. How many times did you pull your driver out today?
RICH BEEM: I hit driver almost -- with the exception of a few holes where it's just a really dumb play, I hit an it a lot of places, just to kind of see where it's at and see how far my drivers would go. And after I found out it was probably not the play, I hit what I thought was the right club. But I'll still be pretty aggressive off the tee, as much as I possibly can, because that's the style of golf I like to play. I like to be aggressive off the tee.
Q. Could you go over what went wrong with your game after Kemper, those would years, 2000 and up until I guess towards the end of 2001, and now look ahead to protect against that?
RICH BEEM: Besides lack of practice and dedication to the game -- (laughing.)
Q. What else (Laughter.)
RICH BEEM: My swing, it was just okay back then. It was kind of functional for me, because it wasn't really functional being on the road 30 weeks out of the year. September of 2000, I finally went to my coach, Cameron Doan in Dallas and I said, listen, no more Band-Aids, we have to figure out how to make this thing more functional. We have tried some different things, some have worked and some have not.
Click here for the complete transcript of Rich Beem's interview.