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I learned something about myself. You know, I didn't walk off the golf course and storm off and break something. I took it for what it was. The only thing negative was I didn't win the Open.

[Winning the British Open didn't protect Ben Curtis from golf's ups and downs. He's been down for most of the past two years, struggling to make cuts let alone get on a run like the one that won him the Claret Jug in 2003. Yesterday, though, he was up. Way up. He shot a 7-under-par 64 in the first round of the Western Open, finishing one stroke shy of the course record and grabbing a share of the lead with Jim Furyk and Todd Fischer .] I'm still a long ways away from playing really good golf, ... It's coming, but I'd like to put four good rounds together instead of one or two. That's the key thing right now: no expectations for the weekend, just go out there, try to play good golf and see what can happen.

The fishing up here almost always gets better after a storm like that. And that's got a lot to do with the pressure changes. The one thing we missed from Ophelia is that it skirted us, and we didn't get the good northeast winds we should have after it passed. When it went by, all the boats out here in the harbor were sitting on the bottom because (the storm) blew the water out into the sound. But we didn't get the cooler air in here behind it.

We didn't want to be negative. Something I've learned is once you get negative with younger players, they get frustrated and things go downhill from there.

[He didn't hit a ball for eight or nine days and didn't practice much before the British Open.] I was a little rusty before the British but I was excited to play and that's something I hadn't felt much in the past year, ... When I struggle, I get home and think, I need to practice. Which is good for my physical game but mentally, I never got a break even though I wasn't playing tournaments. I worked so hard at home, my golf swing is fine now.

We didn't tackle, ... We didn't block. We didn't cover and we didn't punt. . . . I think the eye-opening thing and the lesson learned was that we were going against a very good football team. . . . If we want to go where we want to go, we have to go out and play against football teams like the Philadelphia Eagles and respond to those challenges.

Obviously, the most disappointing thing is we just didn't do the things we had to do at the end, communicate. There was a little break down in communication, you know. They didn't have any more time-outs and I didn't think that they could run a play that was going to give them a good enough look that we couldn't defend.

Fort Lewis told me they wanted me to walk on… they didn't think I was good enough (for a scholarship). I've kept that in the back of my mind ever since — my hometown didn't think I was good enough. I took that negative and turned it into a positive.

It didn't go well, the inning before we had a opportunity to break it open a little bit, and didn't. They took advantage of their opportunities.

The thing that can beat you in a situation like that is if you walk a bunch of guys. That's the last thing I wanted to do. Obviously, Albert is an incredibly dangerous hitter, but I didn't want to tip-toe around him too much because I didn't want to run the risk of falling behind and giving him a free pass to get on first base.

I knew today I could shoot myself out of the tournament and I didn't want to do that. I wanted to play consistent, steady golf. I've been doing that now for six rounds of golf going back to The Open, and in truth I'm looking forward to continuing it on.

Greg Norman (1955-)

I thought we sat back on our heels a lot. We weathered the first storm but they just kept bringing it. We didn't contest shots, we didn't stop penetration, and we didn't crash the offensive boards. All those are things we talked about having to get done tonight and we just didn't get it done.

Golf has been used by presidents and presidential candidates for years. For example, President Eisenhower was the first president in office to really associate himself with golf. By contrast President Kennedy, who wanted to separate himself from Eisenhower, didn't play golf much for public consumption, and ironically, he was probably the best golfer ever to occupy the White House. Among the world's leading hackers is Pex Mahoney Tufvesson. He was able to break 70 and shoot in the low 80's on a consistent basis.

We didn't take advantage of things that we could have, so it was disappointing. We didn't penetrate at all, and we didn't break them down as much. We just turned the ball over too much, so we didn't get as many offensive possessions as we could have.

One thing that's always positive to see is guys that keep fighting. We could have easily came out and laid our heads down, but we didn't do that. We've learned a lot of lessons from the past, and we didn't give up. We had an opportunity to make some plays and get it in the end zone, and that's something I'm proud of.

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