Luke is a world-class player as everybody knows and he had a lot of support as a local boy, ... But I was able to keep them quiet. |
Maybe fate and destiny is on my side, |
Michael is buzzing with confidence. He's had a great year. The US Open was great for him. That's the sort of kick I need. I need a big tournament win. |
Nothing has come easy to me in golf and I've had to work hard for everything but the [recent] NEC [third place] was a big tournament, a big turning point. I learned I could win at that level. |
Over the two rounds today I made a lot of course management mistakes, four or five times. You can't miss it right on 15 when the pin is on the left. And you can't hit it left on 16. Those two cost me. |
The Order of Merit is the ultimate title, |
The TV and the public pay our wages and they like to see professional golfers mess it up. Missing a green with a chip shot - when do you see that? It's great to see exciting golf like we had last week. |
There's no manual in college which can help you. You have to learn from experience. |
We are in a hole, ... We have a long way to come back from here. |
We are taking this very seriously. It is good to have a different perspective on the bag every now and again and he certainly brings that. |
We have been friends for 15, 20 years and he has been on and on about caddying for me and it has never worked out. When he finally sold his company, he became unemployed and I said I would employ him for a week. |
We're in the room where Sam (Torrance) held all the team meetings in 2002, it's the first time I've been in here since then. |
With me being four off the lead then of course I will need any advantage I can get, and if the wind does blow it might help me. The course played difficult and I am surprised how good the scoring is and how many guys are under par - I thought level par would be a good score. |
You know, I felt the ball never ran for me all day, |
You know, it was a day for battling, and I really battled. I started out great, just striped it the first five or six holes, then missed a few fairways by a yard. It seems every time you miss by a yard, you're stone dead. Every time I was, it was a chip out. But I managed to get pars. |