Can he achieve the impossible? He's on his way. |
Chris is not the longest off the tee and damn near won it. |
Even when you're four up you are never really comfortable. He wins the eighth and the ninth to peg me back to two up and suddenly, bingo, it's a different ball game. But I did okay. There are important Ryder Cup and World points on offer here this week and after missing the last two cuts in Europe, it was important I won. |
Every time I have reached the No. 1, I've never lost that lead, ... I've given myself an opportunity, and I'm very confident of staying in this position. |
From 4-1 down on opening day, we lead into the singles. That's a great effort from everyone on the team and a lot of credit goes to the young guns. Of eight matches today, we lost only one. Three matches this afternoon went to the last hole. That shows how close it is. |
From the seventh hole onward, he was hitting remarkably straight and remarkably long. He drove the ball magnificent today, and it was a matter of everyone else just hanging on. |
He played the best course today in this weather. |
He was the only man who was not with his team, |
He was the only man who was not with his team, ... That's fine, but there are times to work on your game and we all felt that was not the appropriate time. |
He's sort of caught everybody on the hot, really, and good luck to him. He tried it last week as an experiment and it certainly worked. |
He's sort of caught everybody on the hot, really, and good luck to him. I think you'll find, and not just on this course, a lot of people using two drivers now. Why try and change one swing to accommodate a hole? |
Hopefully I can rest up over the next three or four days and manage to go to America on schedule. If not, I won't. I hurt both my index finger and my middle finger. All three middle fingers have all bruised and swollen up. |
I am delighted to be taking part in this year's UBS Hong Kong Open, |
I am fully aware that if I finish first or second here then I go back to the top of the order of merit in Europe. |
I am looking forward to taking the lead with this talented team as we try to make it three wins in a row over Continental Europe. |