Lorena Ochoa, 68-67-65=200 (-16)

Hole 2, 146-yard par 3: bogey – 9-iron short of green, chip to 10 feet, missed par putt
Hole 3, 518-yard par 5: birdie – 3-wood short right, chip to 6 feet
Hole 4, 356-yard par 4: birdie – 9-iron to 12 feet
Hole 7, 303-yard par 4: birdie – driver to pin-high in fringe, 2-putt from 20 feet
Hole 9, 492-yard par 5: birdie – 4-iron to 25 feet, 2-putt
Hole 10, 528-yard par 5: birdie – 3-wood short in greenside bunker, 2-putt from 25 feet
Hole 11, 365-yard par 4: birdie – 50 degree wedge to 3 feet
Hole 15, 340-yard par 4: birdie – 8-iron to 7 feet
Hole 18, 421-yard par 4: birdie – 7-iron to 8 feet

MIKE SCANLAN:  Lorena, thanks for coming in.  I have a little stat for you before we start:  This is the fifth time you've held a final‑round lead this year.  The previous four times you won every event. Has that crossed your mind at all?  You're entering the final round with the lead again.  Are you thinking about winning?

LORENA OCHOA:  Yes.  Hello, everybody.  Yes, and I like to see that stat.  I think it's always important to ‑‑ you know, this helps a lot for me and I think also for other players.

I think what I did today, I'm really pleased.  It was a great day, especially starting with a bogey on the second hole.  I was able to make eight birdies and just finish in the lead.

I like very much my position, and I'm very excited for tomorrow.

Q.  Does it surprise you these days when you don't hit a good shot?

LORENA OCHOA:  No, I hit a lot of bad shots but you just need to laugh about them and be able to have a smile on your face and just keep moving, you know.

I think I hit five drivers today to the right, missed few fairways, but it's all about the attitude you have.  I was able to come back and play good.

Q.  You're using some different clubs off the tee.  Obviously the driver, but I think you were mixing up with a 3‑wood a little bit maybe.  Was that just for control, and did that help you today?

LORENA OCHOA:  Uh‑huh.  I think I use the strategy of the course.  There are some holes ‑‑ I think today the wind change a little bit, especially on the back on No. 11, 12, 13.  You know, for the tee shot because they play short.  That's the way we been playing the whole week.

Q.  Do you feel at all like you really could have pulled away?  I think you missed really close putts today on 12, 13, and 14.

LORENA OCHOA:  Yeah.  Well, you know, I mean, I have no complaints.  I'm really happy with my round.  Sometimes they just don't drop in, and hopefully they will tomorrow.

You know, I did have some horrible breaks today.  I missed the driver on No. 10 and just ended up in the rough and then, you know, made a birdie right there.

On 17, I hit the driver to the right again and got a good lie and was able to punch something out.  So it's good balance, so I'm happy.

Q.  I'm just curious if any of the players have asked you to take it easy on them or slack up a little bit?  Are they giving you a hard time at all?

LORENA OCHOA:  No.  I mean, a little bit, but just joking around.  You know, good friends.  Yeah, they have a few comments.  I'm going to take a week off next week.  I keep telling them that.

Q.  You said yesterday you like it to from behind because it allows you to be a little more aggressive.  Do you go into tomorrow with that mindset, playing like you're coming from behind?

LORENA OCHOA:  Uh‑huh, always.  I think it's the best way to do.  I think it's bad when you get too much into the other players' game.  I'm going to just try to do my own thing and be aggressive.  I am.

I like to make birdies, not only for me, but for the fans, and I'm going to continue that.

Q.  A lot of the ladies took a lot of time reading the greens.  Are they pretty tough to read today?

LORENA OCHOA:  Well, they're just ‑‑ there's just not much grass on the greens.  So you need to be very carefully with the grain to see.  If it's downgrain it could be really, really quick.

And also it seems like they're just ‑‑ like you're playing over ice, you know, so you really need to hit it in the middle of the hole to make it.

It will never leap out or grab the edge.  So it's difficult greens, yes.

Q.  Talk about the way Carin played today through the first 16 holes.  She had said she fed off you a lot and the way that you were playing well.

LORENA OCHOA:  Well, you know, I think Carin is playing really good.  We can see that her game is at a good level.  I played with her in Mexico, in Morelia, and she had a good tournament over there.

It's just, you know, couple ‑‑ a bad break on 18 with that double bogey.  But good thing she still has one more day to recover, and hopefully she has a good round tomorrow.  I wish her the best.

Q.  You're going to be playing with the two players from Taiwan that are good friends.  What are your thoughts on that.

LORENA OCHOA:  I love them.  I think they're so nice.  I had a great time today with Teresa Lu.  I actually had lunch and breakfast this morning with (Yani) Tseng.  They seem very nice and have good personalities and seem like they enjoy themselves.  I'm excited.  Should be a fun group.

Q.  You haven’t lost a final round lead since the 2007 Navistar Classic.  Does that change your mentality at all knowing that you don't collapse, or haven't in a while?

LORENA OCHOA:  Like I mentioned before, I think it's all about experience.  I do feel much complete right now as a player, making decisions and all of that.

But every tournament is different and every round and day is different, the way we feel.  Right now I'm pretty tired.  Tomorrow I'm just going to manage to do whatever it takes to win.  For sure I'm not going ‑‑ it's not going to go easy.  I think I'm going to take a low round, because good players are behind me. Hopefully I can do it one more time.

Q.  But you're pretty confident that kind of collapse won't happen again like last year?

LORENA OCHOA:  I better be confident.  You know, I just like the way I feel right now.  I trust that my game is at a good level and I should be ready for anything.

Q.  Just wondering if you adjusted your workout routine at all or are getting more sleep or are doing something to keep from getting too tired, this being week four?

LORENA OCHOA:  Well, I been running a lot this week but I know I'm not going to do it this afternoon.  I feel pretty heavy with my legs, and I'm just going to take it easy this afternoon.

Q.  Last year's Ginn tournament a turning point for you in a lot of ways?  You said look, I'm an aggressive player and I might have had a collapse before, but that's not going to happen again the way I play.  Talk about how that maybe helped you.

LORENA OCHOA:  Well, you always learn the hard way.  For some reason the Ginn Open, you know, both tournaments, here and in Charleston, they were tough to me.

I lost one in 18 holes and the other one in a playoff.  You know, hopefully we write a different story tomorrow.

It hurt a lot and it was tough at the time, but then you look back and you always see that it's always worth it.  Everything happens for a reason.  I'm a much better player now and I feel good for tomorrow.

Q.  How far do you run?

LORENA OCHOA:  Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday we run like 35 minutes.  Friday only 28.  I couldn't ‑‑ today I'm not running.

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Yani Tseng, 68-64-69=201 (-15)

Hole 4, 356-yard par 4: birdie – 9-iron to four feet
Hole 5, 176-yard par 3: bogey – three putt from 25 feet
Hole 7, 303-yard par 4: birdie – 58-degree wedge to three feet
Hole 16, 194-yard par 3: birdie – 6-iron to 25 feet
Hole 18, 421-yard par 4: birdie – 8-iron to five feet 

ASHLEY CUSHMAN:  Yani, thanks for coming in and joining us today.  You're one stroke off the lead, and you said yesterday that it was your dream to play with Lorena Ochoa, and tomorrow you get to do it.  Talk about how you played and what you're looking forward to tomorrow.

YANI TSENG:  Dreams come true.  I saw Ochoa make the birdie on last hole, too.  So I say, Okay, I should make birdie, and I was one shot behind.  I think I just don't want to put too much pressure.

I thinking, Okay, I want to learn something from her.  I think that's my attitude for tomorrow.  I feel very confidence for tomorrow, too.  Yeah.

ASHLEY CUSHMAN:  We've also talked the past couple days about the connection between you and Teresa Lu.  You're both from Taiwan.  You know each other pretty well.  It's you, Teresa, and Lorena tomorrow in the final threesome.  Does that make it more special to play with a friend like that?

YANI TSENG:  Well, yeah, good friend.  Like two to beat Ochoa if we can.  Yeah, I don't think we're playing tomorrow, is it?  Oh, really.  That will be very funny.  Yeah.

Q.  Lorena said she had breakfast and lunch with you today.

YANI TSENG:  Yeah.

Q.  Did you learn anything at that point?

YANI TSENG:  You mean in breakfast?

Q.  Did you pick her brain at all?

YANI TSENG:  No, I don't think so.  Just have a little bit talk.  Yeah, I don't think I learn something from there.

ASHLEY CUSHMAN:  Was that the first time you two had spoken?

YANI TSENG:  No.  After yesterday she was introduce herself to me, so I was really exciting for that.  She's a very nice person.

Q.  You talk about how you don't feel any pressure right now.  But how is that possible when there's so much at stake here?  How can you not feel pressure at this point?

YANI TSENG:  In Mexico I was ‑‑ lost the No. 1.  So on that time I was trying too hard and put so much pressure on me.  I said, Okay, I need to won, but I don't think that work.

So this time I just stay relax and just keep doing my job.  I just try ‑‑ just say, Okay, I want to try to be aggressive tomorrow, because today I think I was a little bit pretty safe.  So I just be aggressive tomorrow.

If I don't win, still very good experience for me.  I just stay relax for that.  Yeah.

Q.  If you should win, what would happen in Taiwan?  Would this be big news in Taiwan if you win?

YANI TSENG:  Yeah.  It will be very big news for that.  And I think they want me to go back to Taiwan after I win.  That's what I think.  But I think just now in Taiwan they have television for like life and LPGA too, so everybody watch.  So maybe I will say hi to Taiwan tomorrow.

Q.  Do you think you'll go back?  If you should win the tournament, will you jump on a plane and go back to Taiwan?

YANI TSENG:  I don't think so.  That's too hard.  Yeah, I still have long way to go.  Just one tournament, so I still have a long way.

Q.  Did you even notice the leaderboard when Lorena passed you?  Did you have any reaction at all when her name was up there?

YANI TSENG:  Yeah, I saw that.  I say, Oh, I going to keep up for me.  I just really say, Okay, I going to play good.  I don't want to be aggressive.

Yeah, because it was pretty ‑‑ like so safe.  So after, I see, Oh, Ochoa is over me.  I say, Okay, I need to just keep up.

Q.   Are you saying you started the round playing safe?

YANI TSENG:  Yeah.  But I don't want play safe, but I just cannot open to play like aggressive.  Yeah.

Q.  Are you intimidated tomorrow going up against Lorena?

YANI TSENG:  Yeah.  Confidence and waiting for tomorrow.

Q.  Do you train by running?  Because you're in wonderful condition.  Do you run a lot?

YANI TSENG:  No, I didn't workout.  I should workout.  After this tournament I'm going ‑‑ no, after Stanford I'm going back California and workout with the TPI.  So I need to start a workout.  That's why I can play more tournaments in a row.  Yeah.

Q.  When you say you have to stay more relaxed, what do you do to make yourself relax?

YANI TSENG:  Maybe I just make some fun with my caddie.  I hope she can make fun for me.  Because today I had my head a little bit down, and my caddie said, ‘What are you looking for?  Are you looking for something that was on the ground?’  I said, Oh, no.  Yeah.

Q.  Wondering what your caddie's name is and how you know her and how long you've known her.

YANI TSENG:  I know her about seven or eight years.  She's like big sister.  She name's Sherry Lin.

Q.  Is she a player?

YANI TSENG:  Yeah, she's a pro in Taiwan.  But she want to be like a coach or something.  She don't want to be a pro.  She say it's too tough.  She's lost money more than she make, so she just don't want to play.

I say, oh, yeah that is true.  Just caddie for me.

Q.  How does this course here compare to courses in Taiwan?

YANI TSENG:  This course is very tough and windy.  The green was so fast.  But in Taiwan the green is kind of a little bit slow and bumpy.  Yeah, it's not really soft.  Yeah.

ASHLEY CUSHMAN:  You're just a rookie and you're already off on this incredible season.  You've made just short of $200,000 in five starts.  What's something we don't know about you?  What can you tell us about yourself that no one knows?

YANI TSENG:  You mean just with golf?

ASHLEY CUSHMAN:  Sure. About anything, actually.

YANI TSENG:  I like to play pool.  I always say pool just like putting.  I went to a tournament for pool in Taiwan, top 16.  So I tell my friend, maybe off‑season I going to play pool tournament.  It was a lot of fun.

Q.  Any other family or friends here?

YANI TSENG:  No.  My family is not here.  My family was in home, because my dad still business and my mom just stay home.

But I think they were back like next couple weeks for the majors.  Yeah.  But it's good to have family for support, but I still have a lot of friends, so it's good.