[Everything had changed by Sunday evening.] To be so on top of everything and have complete control of my game and then for it to go totally south, ... I've never had a tournament like that. Normally when I'm playing good, I keep playing good. Maybe having that big a lead after two days took me out of my element. |
All day long I was like, 'Let's hope it doesn't come down to our match. And sure enough, it came down to our match. |
All I can do is try to put myself into position Sunday and use what I learned last year. |
All I thought about was to get him a win, |
All these younger kids, they're ready to play out here. They're ready to be in the spotlight. ... They're not afraid to win like I was, to be quite frank. It was hard with the lead out there and the cameras on you and the people cheering you. It was hard to balance all that, and these young kids now are able to do that. |
Any time you don't make any bogeys around this place, that's a good thing. Usually when you don't make any birdies, that's not a good thing. But I'm OK. |
Believe it or not, I thought I was going to win. There was one guy tied with me and they had 16, 17 and 18 left. Those holes were playing brutal. Tiger made a birdie on 16 with a 7-iron to a pin tucked behind the water. |
Bridesmaid is getting old, I can promise you that, especially when I've played good enough to get there (to win), |
Bridesmaid is getting old, I can promise you that, especially when I've played good enough to get there and not gotten it. |
Bridesmaid is getting old, I can promise you that, especially when I've played good enough to get there and not gotten it. This one really kind of pisses me off for lack of a better word. This is good. Maybe it'll light a fire under me. |
But I like that. I like to hit in first to the green and get it close and let them look at that. |
Courses are not getting any shorter. I could not hit the ball an average of 279, 280 (yards) and compete out here still. I needed to get eight to 10 more yards somehow. It makes a big difference. |
Every piece of my body was shaking, ... My caddie says before I hit the putt, 'This is the moment you've waited for your whole life, so go ahead and do it.' And you know, I did. |
Everybody thinks the Americans don't care, ... I can promise you that's not true at all. We care a lot and this is big. We wanted this bad. We wanted this for (captain Jack) Nicklaus. |
For me, you could sum it up with one word - emotion |