That is pretty sweet, having a coach who is always thinking of you like that. He is a big part of my success. |
They do. When you're working on things, the information takes some time to get from your head to your body. As I get more comfortable with the changes, things will get better. |
Things have gotten a lot better. Earlier this year -- in February, right after the Hope -- I found out I would basically stand up and arch my back at the top of the swing. It prevented me from playing well, and was also giving me back problems. I was basically hurting myself with every swing. And I was making huge compensations. I had to take two months off, and it took months after that to get to playing well again. |
This golf course is as good and as hard as it gets. There were some places around the greens where you could hit a decent shot and wind up three feet off the green and really have no shot. |
To this day, the first thing I do when I walk into a restaurant is take off my cap. |
We talked on the phone a couple of days after Congressional. We're fine. The most important thing was the relationship, and the relationship was restored. We were scheduled to play a practice round together [the following week] at Westchester, but I was really tired and I didn't get up there in time. Rory and I remain friends -- that doesn't change because we had that weird thing happened. |
We've been trying to pick up the pace and start playing a little faster so we put something in place this week that's allowed me to pull the trigger a little faster. This was just kind of a trial week to see what would happen, and obviously it was a great result. |
We've tried to shave maybe 10 or 15 seconds off each shot, and we're pretty close, ... It's gotten to the point where I'm not in violation when I'm hitting shots like I probably would have been a few months ago. |