An Interview With Angela Stanford
Angela Stanford, 12-under par (70-67-67=204)
Hole 3, 352-yard par 4: bogey, drove left into rough, two-putt to three feet
Hole 5, 378-yard par 4: birdie, wedge to six feet
Hole 7, 365-yard par 4: birdie, sand-wedge to eight feet
Hole 9, 373-yard par 4: bogey, drove into bunker, two-putt to four feet
Hole 11, 373-yard par 4: birdie, gap-wedge to 10 feet
Hole 13, 486-yard par 5: birdie, 7-wood to three feet
Hole 14, 139-yard par 3: birdie, 9-iron to seven feet
Hole 15, 380-yard par 4: birdie, pitching wedge to three feet
Hole 16, 463-yard par 5: birdie, 7-wood chipped in to two feet
JASON TAYLOR: Angela, thanks for coming in. Great round. Four-shot lead heading into the final day. 12 under overall, 5 under today. Everything seemed to go well for you today.
ANGELA STANFORD: Yeah. Started out kind of shaky, settled in on the backside and just fortunate to have some flags that we could go out and some good numbers. So I just really kind of got into a rhythm there in the back.
Q. You said yesterday it was your best round you ever played at this course. Is this the best back nine you've ever played at this course?
ANGELA STANFORD: It might be the best back nine I've ever played. I don't even know what that adds up to. I don't even know. But, yeah, the best back nine here by far.
Q. When you are having trouble with the wind like that the, how did you overcome it on the back nine or did it just die down?
ANGELA STANFORD: It seemed to be more consistent on the back nine. I'm not sure why.
You know, my caddie does a really good job at knowing where it's suppose to be coming from and, you know, we were just more committed to some of the numbers that we were playing. It seemed to be more consistent on the back for some reason. I don't know why.
Q. It sounds like you were surprised by a few of your shots in that four-birdie run there. Do you think the wind played into at all?
ANGELA STANFORD: Yeah. The 9-iron on 14, the par 3, it probably carried it onto the green. It probably shouldn't have made the green.
The 7-wood on 16, you know, when I got over the ball it felt like, you know, around that tree the wind was going to be right to left. And I really don't know how that 7-wood went that far because I hit it thin; maybe that was the reason why. But it seemed like once it got past the tree it carried it, so it must have been the wind a couple times.
Q. With the lead, is there pressure going into Sunday or just game plan -- do you just kind of stick to what, I guess, has been helping you throughout the last two days particularly?
ANGELA STANFORD: You know, I'm having such a good time playing this golf course that I'm going to kind of stick with that. I'm excited about tomorrow again. It's been awhile since I've been in this position, and I'm just having so much fun this week that, you know, I don't think there's any pressure.
Q. You are from Saginaw, Texas; right? Where is that located?
ANGELA STANFORD: Just North of Fort Worth.
Q. Because of the hurricane and all, can you give your thought about that? I know Texas is getting hammered right now.
ANGELA STANFORD: Yeah. My parents both work for the city in Saginaw, and I know they were preparing for evacuees. I think we were supposed to just get wind and rain up there. But, you know, I was praying for those people last night and this morning because they're Texans.
And any time there's a hurricane or, you know, a natural disaster like that you pray for those people. But being from my home state, you know, just watching it on TV, it's heart-breaking, and I hope people got out of there.
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