Best hitting coach in baseball, ... He has this way of communicating and getting things through to you. We look at what we're doing like what Tiger Woods went through, revamping the swing. He took a few steps back and one step forward.
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We thought we would do the Tiger Woods bit, because he always wears red on the final day of a tournament.
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I hung in there well. I didn't play particularly well. I hit a lot of poor drives, and when I drove the ball well I continued to drive it in the first cut (of rough). It was kind of frustrating because nothing really seemed to get the momentum going. When I did get the momentum going, like on Sunday, I made a mistake.
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I thought (old) 7 was a great risk-reward hole. You could hit driver. You could hit fairway wood, or even iron, off the tee, depending on what you feel you could do. Now you're hitting driver where usually we're hitting 3-woods or 2-irons. It's playing totally different now.
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I felt if I shot 66, that would be a really good number to post early because I'm two hours ahead of the leaders. I wish I could have shot a couple shots lower and posted that, but you never know.
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I thought at the beginning of the day, there might be two scores in the 60s today. The golf course is playing really difficult. It's fast now. As always, if there's no rain here, the golf course is completely different from Wednesday to Thursday. It somehow just dries out miraculously overnight.
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(I) just stayed patient. I missed a couple of putts early in the round, but finally got it going on the back nine. I made some nice putts on the back nine for birdies as well as par. It turned out to be a really nice day.
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It's nice starting off the year with the checklist not as long to get ready for Augusta than it was last year when I had to make some major changes. This year it is just fine-tuning which is great.
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No matter how good you get you can always get better and that's the exciting part.
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I had to go for it and try to go for a birdie or, best part, eagle, ... Then he puts the ball on the green on 17 and it was over.
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Anywhere inside the bleachers and I'm fine ... just as long as I can make bogey. A 'W' is a 'W.
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I played through some circumstances that I don't normally have to play (at the Presidents Cup), but the team needed me and I tried to do my best to get points,
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The wind is blowing, swirling in the trees. On top of that, the greens are really inconsistent out there because the low spots are soft, the high spots are really firm. It depends on where you land it.
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He's a competitor, and being such a great competitor, it must be hard for him not to be prepared. I can understand why he's bowing out now.
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It's never easy to shoot 65, but it's even more difficult now. Some of the holes where you could hit marginal tee shots and still have great angles into the flags, that's been taken away.
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Not only are they raking it up, they are raking it towards the tee, so every ball that goes in there is into the grain, ... You can't control your shot and you can't normally get to the greens. You either hit it down the middle or you bomb it in the gallery over there where it's stomped down.
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I turned a really good round into an okay round,
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Just one of those weird days where I just didn't have it. I didn't feel very good over the ball, putts, chips, full shots, you name it.
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I enjoy tournaments where if you shoot a round in the 60s, you've earned it and you're going to move up the board. I'm 1-under par and I'm in 10th. That's pretty good.
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I started off well, making a few birdies, but after that I didn't do much expect read putts and get the pom-poms out,
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Hundreds of balls, and you might only make one. That's a shot ... once in a lifetime.
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I am the toughest golfer mentally.
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I turned a really good round into an OK round. Today I thought was my opportunity to do what Monty did yesterday. I made quite a few mistakes.
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That's why I've busted my butt on the range for hours on end and made changes to get to this point where I'm able to compete at the highest level in major championships. That's where you want to be,
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If you can't laugh at yourself, then who can you laugh at?
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I'm not going to work on anything, ... I'm going to go home and relax.
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It eliminates a lot of guys. If you hit it low and rely on your game to get the ball out there that way, and hit your irons not that high, you're going to be struggling.
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I'm in good shape. A good shot can end up in a bad spot and you just have to accept the consequences and move on. It was very difficult.
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It will always be the ball and me.
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It's hard for me to compete against Vijay if Vijay just plays well, because obviously he plays nine or 10 more events than I do per year, ... What I can do is have a higher money total per event played, and try to get the number of victories higher than anyone else on tour. If you can do that, then you've had a very good year.
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