Davis Love 72 (141): (On his stroke of luck at 14): "I didn't see it happen, but the guy (a marshal) put his hand up to indicate
it was good and then somebody told my caddie it hit the stake. It was a great break - it saved me a stroke or two."
SK Ho 73 (143): "I called this morning and spoke to my parents and they told me it is a big
news story in all the newspapers in Korea on the front page and I'm very happy
with that. I was very surprised when I had a birdie on the third and eagle on the
fourth that I became leader of the major tournament, but I'm very happy with
that."
Thomas Bjorn 70 (143): "I'm in there with a chance, I was last
year at Muirfield and in 2000 at St Andrews and I feel comfortable with this
kind of golf. I want to play major championships and know the way I have performed I have
the game to go all the way."
Tiger Woods 72 (145): "This course is very similar to Birkdale when it's dry and the wind is
howling, but these are more difficult pins. You've just got to be patient and have to take advantage of birdies when you
get them. It's fun to know you get rewarded for a round in the sixties. Most times on
the tour if you shoot 67 guys go past you."
Thomas Levet 73 (144): "It's a mental challenge, it's like climbing Mount Everest. But I make the same score here on a tough course as I do on the easy
courses. It's because I'm struggling with my game that this feels the same and it's a
position some guys are not used to."
Ernie Els 68 (146) "I worked very hard and played very well at stages. I've just got to get my putter warmer but I'm happy to be here for the
weekend. My swing was better today with the driver and on the greens I wasn't
sweating around like a boxer like yesterday."
Mark Roe 70 (147): (On the official who decided on pin positions: "He must be a masochist. That's what you expect to see at Brighton seafront along with clowns with
shiny noses."
Padraig Harrington 73 (148): "When you are not on form you want everybody else to be knocked off their
form, so I want the wind to blow," said Harrington. I am playing average golf but I think I know what I am doing wrong. I hit
the ball well on the last couple of holes and that will give me confidence for
the weekend."
John Daly 74 (149): "I feel I am starting to play better and to me I shot even par today. I dropped two shots on 13 when my drive hit a television tower and I
lost the ball, which cost me a double bogey. Then on 18 I had to play off the road and made a bogey, but in the United
States that would be classed as a cart path and you would get relief. The course
is playing a little bit easier but it is still hard."
Nick Faldo 74 (150): "I had one decent hole on a very demoralising day," said Faldo. It was dreadful, I was just hitting it and walking and seeing what might
happen. I pulled off one career shot at 17 with my five iron and luckily I am still
here, which will be nice. I can't turn it around to win but it will be nice to
have a good weekend and have a decent finish."
Alastair Forsyth 70 (144): "Obviously there's a long way to go, but I played great.
Conditions were not as windy as yesterday, but they were still pretty tough."
Ian Woosnam 75 (148): "I was still asleep I think. But I didn't dream of that start - I was
thinking birdie, birdie, birdie. I slept quite well actually and I didn't even have a drink last night."
Paul Casey 71 (156): "I fell off the horse and I had to get back on and not be afraid of playing
golf again. I played poorly yesterday, no doubt about it, but if I had played OK I would
have been high 70s. It was the toughest mixture of weather and course conditions that I've
faced, but I was not ready to play links golf."
Fredrik Jacobson 76 (146): "I struggled a bit more even before the bogeys. Once I started
to hit some bad shots I didn't have the energy to fight through."
Justin Rose 80 (158): "There is nothing positive I can say about that. I feel that last year you don't really get
many better chances than that but I didn't take the challenge that day."
