I needed to shoot a good score today, and I did, ... I played well, got a great break on one hole. I snap-hooked a drive on the par- five seventh into the hazard. It was dead left. It hit a tree and popped out to the front edge of the fairway about 100 yards off the tee. I laid up with a three-iron and hit a sand-wedge about three feet and made a four. It should have been a six or who knows what.
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I actually like that, because then it feels like everyone is on a level playing field, ... As the week goes along, you learn the course a little more. It's kind of fun going to play somewhere I've never played before.Mark Calcavecchia
I've got to admit I never thought I'd win again, let alone on a golf course like this, in a tournament this big,
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I'm surprised that the scores aren't lower. With the course conditions, I really thought someone would have shot 7- or 8-under for sure, maybe even 9- under.
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Even dating back to the late 80s when I was making everything I looked at, I still missed a lot of short putts, because I cannot stay still over them,
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I played awful, ... If there weren't 20 marshals on every hole and a couple of thousand spectators, I would have lost five balls today and shot about 84. I missed the last eight fairways and was in the weeds every hole. I turned an 80, literally, into a 71.
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I am territorial, ... I won in Phoenix three times, the Honda twice in Florida and now in Vancouver twice, so seven of my 12 wins have come in three places. Why, I don't know.
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