Q. Min Woo, overall how would you kind of characterize that day out there?
MIN WOO LEE: Yeah, I just got told that I had one eight-putts (sic) in a row or something like that and 10 putts in 10 holes. Yeah, I guess it was a little autopilot early on. Very solid day again. The last couple days were really good. Today was a really long day, I need to get back into bed. But maybe that’s what I have to do, I might have to do two warmups, two physio sessions and maybe I can shoot 7 under all the time. No, it was great fun and very solid overall.

Q. What did you feel like you did best today? You talked about all the putting, but also seemed like you were striking your irons very well today.
MIN WOO LEE: Yeah, again, it’s just trending so well. My coach and I, Richie, have done really good work and it’s starting to show. It’s just a lot of trust. We’ve been working on this for the last two, three years, but just the last couple weeks since PLAYERS it kind of clicked in. Yeah, I mean, the irons have been amazing. I think obviously you’ve got to hit it close, and holing putts helps. Yeah, putted really good. I only hit five fairways, but I’m glad and I love that the rough isn’t thick. That’s obviously why I’m playing pretty good. Hopefully tomorrow I can hit a little bit better off the tee and get it going.

Q. When you say the things you and your coach have been working on specifically, is there anything specific?
MIN WOO LEE: Yeah, just being really steep with the irons. It’s kind of just like a little nugget that I figured out. I feel like I’m nearly hitting it — I’m trying to hit it up in the air and at first it doesn’t feel amazing because you think you’re going to flip it left all the time, but just after a couple times I trusted it, I could really see the shot, especially into the wind. That’s the biggest part. Anytime into the wind I just want to get steep and hit it low, and normally it comes out hot off the face and becomes very hard to control the iron. Just to, yeah, just to shallow it out and have less spin I think definitely helps.

Q. We talked earlier in the week, a couple days ago about THE PLAYERS and how maybe you got a little bit ahead of yourself maybe on the weekend. What have you learned from that and what do you feel like you can take from that tomorrow to maybe help not get ahead of yourself? MIN WOO LEE: Yeah, today I did an amazing job, didn’t do that. It was a very good learning curve the last PLAYERS just a few weeks ago being in the lead and just, I don’t know, felt like I wasn’t myself. Yeah, I just had to — you know, I want to be in this situation more and more, so I had to
really look into it myself and yeah, just keeping my head down really and try and hit one shot at a time. It’s a long day so you can’t get ahead of yourself, and you’ve just got to hit one shot at a time and keep trusting your game.
Q. Min Woo, 17 tee, aggressive play with the driver.
MIN WOO LEE: Yep.
Q. You had a four-shot lead. I just wondered what were you thinking, and does this say something about the way you plan to attack the golf course tomorrow?
MIN WOO LEE: Yeah, I mean, so it was between 3-wood and driver. I know if I just hit a good driver I can either get it past the pin or around the green as long as I don’t hit it right, in the water, and you’re kind of aiming right at the bunkers and hitting a cut. I mean, why not? I’m an aggressive player. And the tees were forward, so I would have probably had to hit 8-iron off that tee to get a wedge out. I trust my game. Again, it’s pretty
wide open, so why not.
Q. I suspect you must like this course?
MIN WOO LEE: Yeah, love it.
Q. And to go off of what you were talking about with him, I’m just curious, where’s your head right now? Where do you want it to be in the morning?
MIN WOO LEE: Yeah, I need a good night’s rest. It’s tough, I kind of — I don’t know if it’s controversial, but I talked to my fellow friends and we finished at 8:00 last night and we have to wake up at 5:00. The time from you to get off the course to have dinner to go into your
bed, you only have like five, six hours of sleep, so it’s not really healthy I’d say. And I’m a great sleeper, and there’s guys that can’t sleep out on Tour and they have a tough time falling asleep. That’s it. But no, I think just a good night’s rest would be good. I’m proud of the way I handled myself today and hopefully I can do it again tomorrow.
Q. Where do you want your mind to be in the morning?
MIN WOO LEE: Relaxed, motivated and yeah, just a good warmup, same routine. You know, I’m starting to learn golf is golf and don’t get too emotional about bad shots, it’s going to happen, especially on a Sunday even if you had the lead or not. Yeah, don’t get ahead of
yourself, one shot at a time.
Q. Back to the question about whether you like the golf course, you kind of left that. I
was assuming you like it because it’s a driver’s golf course —
MIN WOO LEE: Yeah.
Q. — it’s a long ball golf course. Are there any other reasons, and are those reasons correct for you?
MIN WOO LEE: Yeah. Obviously when you hit five fairways you don’t really — you need to scramble a lot. For the fairways to be not too thick, you can still attack the greens. The greens are soft, and around the greens with preferred lies you can put on a good lie and chip in. You know, I feel good around the greens, too. I think just overall everything’s kind of clicking and I just, yeah, I feel really good about it.