DAVID FROST Sunday, June 9, 2013
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INTERVIEW TRANSCRIPT: DAVID FROST Sunday, June 9, 2013 DAVID SENKO: Well, David, congratulations. This is your first major championship on the Champions Tour. DAVID FROST: Ever. DAVID SENKO: First major ever. Five years at Hualalai, now another major championship, second Champions Tour title this year, joining Bernhard with (inaudible) this year. You're the fourth international winner of this event with Graham Marsh, Eduardo Romero, and Mark McNulty. You've now taken over the lead in the Charles Schwab Cup race by -- you now have 1,336 points, almost 300 ahead of Bernhard. So with that, if you could just share your thoughts on the win. Pretty crazy day, but you got through it. DAVID FROST: 300 points ahead of Bernhard is nothing. I'll start with that. Yeah, it's been an exciting year, my kind of taking a run for the top of the yellow jersey out there. It's quite exciting. I had it for one week and then he took it away for me, so hopefully now I'll have it for more than one week now. Generally speaking, yes, I obviously am delighted to have finally won a major tournament. I didn't ever think it would be easy and it wasn't easy, especially after the rain delay coming out of it, three holes to go, and then know an unbelievable shot on 16 at the time. And then, you know, being able to also hit a good shot. And then I thought it was quite unlucky on 17 to push my drive maybe three yards, maybe if it went one yard further it would have been over the bunker. Again, it was another challenge there. Then on 18 I managed to hit a good drive and a good second shot in there, and then he goes and steps up as well on the 18th. You know, you can't wish for him not to make the putt. All I could wish for was, well, if he makes his, I'm going to have to make mine. It does take more pressure off you if you do see it that way rather than not allowing yourself to think that he's going to make this put and then it's a shock. That's just the way I played it out to the end. DAVID SENKO: Your birdies, maybe just take us through birdie No. 1 and your shot sequence? DAVID FROST: It was long time ago, you know. Here's where I hit a driver and wedge about 4 feet and birdied that. I missed one about 6 feet for birdie on No. 3, 10 feet for birdie on No. 4. I made a good birdie putt on No. 8 from about 15 feet behind the hole. Made a putt on 10, on 9 and 10. On 11 I two-putted for birdie. 12, I had a good putt for birdie of about 15 feet. 13, hit my worst shot of the day, pushed a 5-iron, fairly tough spot there, and was just lucky to get on the green after that. And then 16, really hit a good putt there. After the rain delay the greens were a little wet, so I had to hit it a little harder going up the hill and the ball barely got to the hole. DAVID SENKO: What did you hit? DAVID FROST: I hit a 6-iron into 16 out about 195 yards to the hole. Played a little tee-scripts.com 1 downhill and I didn't want to bring the back side of the green into play, so I figured let me just play for about 8, 9 yards short of the pin and just, you know, sometimes you've got to just be happy with playing short and not getting it up to the hole. DAVID SENKO: How far was the putt? DAVID FROST: About 15 feet, 16, 17 feet, about that. And then 18 I hit a good shot in, 167 yards in and I hit an 8-iron. I was a little pumped up at that stage. Told me I'd have to hit a 7-iron that far, and this time I just hit an 8-iron as hard as I could and not try and hit an easy 7-iron, which you don't really want to do under pressure. Q It doesn't seem like you were intimidated at all by the situation. What was your mindset? Was it business as usual? DAVID FROST: I just said to myself, it's not supposed to be easy. You know, these things don't come easy. You don't win majors and someone hands it to you on a plate unless you're Ernie Els or Adam Scott. But, no, had to play to make that last putt. So it was only after the fact it was handed to him, but not while he's playing. He played hard. That's what I thought today, you know. We came in for the break, I sat there and said to myself, it's not going to be easy. He's got nothing to lose. He's going to go out there and hit the shots and fire at the pins, and I've just got to kind of, you know, accept it and be up to the challenge. Q Kind of following off of that, this is something you might be able to answer easier now, but at this point in your career there's not going that many first moments ever. To get a major, what does that mean to accomplish that? DAVID FROST: Well, it sort of rounds it out a little bit. You know, ideally you would want to win a major on the regular tour. Second best would be to win one out here. There's a couple of enjoyable times I'm going to have the next couple weeks. At my club in Dallas there's a line of all the professionals that are members there and each professional that has won a major has got a little tag under his name, Tom Watson, Lee Trevino, Gunther Plank (phonetic) won the U.S. Amateur, David Graham won the U.S. Open. So I'll feel proud that there will be a plaque under my name there. Then I have friend in South Africa who said he would shave off his beard if I ever won a major. I'll be calling him tomorrow. He's a club professional at Victoria Country Club. His beard is going to come off now finally. You know, you just go through such hard work playing golf, trying to accomplish these things. The guys in the Champions Tour, because they're here doesn't mean they practice less. We all practice as hard as we used to because that's all we know. So, yeah, you know, again, I feel fortunate enough to have something like the Champions Tour that we can carry on and play the game and still enjoy the game of golf and give so many people so much enjoyment. Like the pro-ams we play in, like the volunteers that come out and have fun, hard work for them, you know, the charities that participate in these events. So many people that benefit from it, and the winning at the end of the day is just a bonus. tee-scripts.com 2 Q It's certainly been exciting to see the relationship between you and your wife. And the way you dress and the way you act, it really warms a heart and we're glad to have you here. DAVID FROST: Well, if you think at all that people whose example there has been us to follow, you know, you can only think about people like Arnold Palmer and Jack Nicklaus and those classy people whose footsteps we've been able to follow in. And it's a big honor, but thank you. Q They were saying that you have been working with a gentleman in Germany. Has that made a difference for you? DAVID FROST: I've been working with a guy in Germany since 2007, his name is Christian Neumaier, and he's absolutely transformed my golf game from being in a mechanical frame of mind rather than being in an athletic frame of mind and an athletic movement through the swing rather than a mechanical way of playing golf. He's more into biomechanics, number one; and number two, I think the bad thing that we've been taught is to grip the club too much in the fingers, which produces a lot of mechanics rather than gripping it in the hand, where you can swing more with your arm. In a nutshell, that's it. All right, thanks, gentlemen, ladies. tee-scripts.com 3 .