What they said: Juan Quiros

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Q. Where did you feel like you played your best, what part of the game?

JUAN QUIROS: I think all my game I played very well, putting well. I think all my game I hit well. There were a few things with the irons not so good, from the start, but after the third hole, I concentrated all day, and I think all of my play was good.

Q. Did the birdie putts you made, were they long distance? Did you hit the ball close?

QUIROS: Well, I start with a birdie on the 10th hole. This is my first hole where the putt was made eight meters, something like that.

The second birdie was the 17th hole. I hit a very long driver with a 9-iron, second shot, and the putt was maybe nine meters, two great putts.

The third birdie is in No. 2 hole, second hole. It was my 11 hole. I hit the long drive. I put birdie near the green, seven meters short of the green, I putted, two-putted, made third birdie.

My fourth birdie, coming to the hole, par 5, No. 4. I hit the long drive, 5-iron missed to the right. I chipped in ground, ball was maybe half meter.

And my other birdie was the ninth hole. I hit the driver not so good, like it was in the rough left, but I hit the 5-iron 253 yards, bunkered the green, chipped the bunker by not one meter. That was my birdie.

Q. Your exemption to the Senior Open came on your Senior PGA European ranking. Did you have the date of the Senior Open circled? Were you looking forward to it?

QUIROS: No. I played in the Senior Tour in Europe the first of last year. I win one tournament last year. That's how I was exempt to coming here.

No. I didn't have it circled. I like to come here because I played in Calcutta and I'm going to play in the PGR. I'm very happy to come here, you know. Yeah, I think about coming here. I buy the ticket two months ago. But I was lucky.

Q. Is that the first time you had been to the Broadmoor?

QUIROS: Yeah. It was my first time here.

Q. How were the conditions this afternoon, because there seemed to be more wind. Did that affect anything?

QUIROS: Well, sometime the wind is coming -- sometimes it's so windy. Yeah, it was a more difficult thing for the shot, but no, the wind was not a problem all day.

Q. What's the difference getting the birdie on the last hole being 3-under, one shot out, does it help you sleep better tonight?

QUIROS: I sleep better tonight anyway. I have a friend here, Javier, from Spain, he's my colleague, he's my friend, my driver. He helped me all day, yeah. I promise he'll help me. He sees the lines beautiful.

The club is normal. Everything is okay. The club shots with me, he helped me very, very much.

Q. How did you find the greens this afternoon? Quick, firm?

QUIROS: No. It was normal like the other day in practice round.

My impression was, I never saw that before, a couple times they stopped for a few minutes to put the water in the green. I never saw that before. I said to Javier, I never see that before, but I think it's a good idea, because the people play in the morning, the green is different condition than when you play this afternoon. I know. I play tomorrow in the morning. You know, the draw changes, but I think the tomorrow is the same. For everybody, you play the green all the same.

Q. That's the intention, to try to make the golf course play the same the entire time, whether it's morning or afternoon or whether it's Thursday or Sunday.

QUIROS: Yeah. I think it's a good idea for the marshalls and the referees. I think it's good, 100 percent agreement.

Q. If we would have told you last night that you would be standing here one stroke off the lead at the Senior Open when you were finished with your round, what would your impression be?

QUIROS: Well, I said this morning to Javier, I said, I am very happy to be here. I am a lucky man to come and play in the big tournament, and now I play -- when I play, normally I play my friends in practice round. I wouldn't try this. I said, that's good. That's great. I'm not thinking nothing more.

Q. Have you been playing well coming into this event?

QUIROS: Well, I played well last week. I won the tournament this year in Ireland with the conditions. It was a lot of rain and wind. I won the tournament there. I still played well. It's my third year playing the Senior Open. I play well. I'm happy, no?

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