It feel great. There are a lot of great names on this trophy and I am just thrilled to death that I can put my name on it. |
It is a great start. I'm thrilled to death to be here. I hit the ball really well. |
It was 17 holes of grinding and groaning and on the last hole, everything was perfect. It was worth it. |
It was a good par on 16 and 17 was key. I got to make that putt to even have a chance. Those putts on 17 and 18 were the two best putts I hit all week and they came at the right time. I'm delighted with the way I finished. I finally finished a round off. |
It was a struggle today. I missed a short birdie putt on the first hole, then lost a little confidence with the putter. I had a couple of three putts on the front nine and just let everybody in the field. |
It was a struggle today. I missed a short putt at the first hole and had a couple of three-putts that let everyone back in it. I'm just glad I played the last hole as good as I can play it. |
It was a struggle. I was just out of sync. |
It was going a little too hard, but it went right in the back of the hole. That was just icing on the cake. I couldn't have hit a better putt. |
It was nice that it went in. Realistically, when I hit it, I was thinking about getting it down there. I just wanted to get it around the hole. It went in a little faster than I wanted it to. But it went in and it went in pretty hard. |
It was very surprising. Hale doesn't make mistakes like that. I'm not going to lie to you, it did make my tee shot and second shot on 18 a little easier. |
It's a pretty easy shot out of there when you can ground your club. When you can't ground your club, it's a little tougher, and that tree that's out there on the left side of the green really determines what you can play there. If you hit in the trap and you don't hit it far, then you've got a tough shot to negotiate around that tree. |
It's not easy. I just happen to catch a couple weeks where I'm doing a lot of things right and I'm putting well. |
It's wide open with 15 people within three shots. It's hard to separate yourself. We'll see what happens tomorrow and Sunday. I think it's going to be a shootout all week. |
No lead is ever big enough. I just want to get out and make a couple of birdies early. If I can make a couple birdies by (the sixth hole) that will be my goal. |
Obviously it's an achievement that would be nice to accomplish. I'll be honest, I've had a nice career, but I was never a name player. To do it would be nice, but I'm not going to dwell on it until the last couple of holes. |