Q. Mr. Jaeger, off to a quite good start. Actually, not quite a good start, bogey at the first, and then if you take me through the second hole, your second hole.
STEPHAN JAEGER: Yeah. They put the pin in a little kind of bowl, you could use the right side. It was early, the greens were pretty soft still. I kind of landed it just inside the green and got a nice left bounce and we watched it roll. I was like, oh, this could be pretty good, and then it disappeared and people were yelling. Well, the two people that were out at 6:45 this morning. It was awesome, it was good.
I haven't had one out here since a couple years ago in the Dominican Republic on No. 2 as well, which is funny. Yeah, it was obviously a great bounce-back and kind of forget about the shitty wedge shot I hit on 1, for sure.
Q. You may have covered it, can you give me a club and yardage?
STEPHAN JAEGER: I think it was low 70s, I want to say 71, 72 and I had an 8-iron.
Q. But just a really good round, 14 of 14 fairways. Just kind of take us through the overall round and how pleased you are with it.
STEPHAN JAEGER: Yeah, it was great. Obviously the fairways are pretty wide here, so I drove it obviously well. I hit some iron shots. The par 3s for me today were great, I think I was 4 under on the par 3s alone. You know, I just -- this golf course, you kind of got to keep it out of the crazy stuff. There's some massive false fronts that roll way off, some spots you just can't go in. I did a good job kind of avoiding that. I missed a few greens, but ended up getting up and down. Made three really nice putts on 7, 8, 9, my last three holes, to kind of keep the round going. A couple for par, and obviously the one on 9 for birdie. It was a really solid day out there. Wasn't too windy this morning. I think this afternoon will be a little bit more, but it was great.
Q. How have you been feeling coming into the week? Did you feel a solid round like this potentially coming on?
STEPHAN JAEGER: You know, I haven't played in three weeks competitively, so for me right now, you know, I kind of took this fall as a little bit of rest period. I felt like I was -- my body was pretty beat up after last season and I needed some time to get back to things I wanted to do in the offseason. Those two to three weeks between the tournaments really kind of gave me the opportunity to do that. So body-wise I'm feeling great, golf swing feels great. You just never know when you come in competition if you're rusty or not. We did a really good job kind of playing to our spots and kind of avoiding the big no-nos out here, for sure.
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