Paul McGinley Quotes (25 Quotes)

It's great to be in the final and will be even greater to win it, ... I don't want a second place. I feel I've played well again today against another world class player. I'll be the underdog again tomorrow, playing the U.S. Open champion so I'm going to have to play really well.

Anyone can do yardages and more or less pull a club. It is friendship I need more than anything else when things aren't going your way. You need someone you can count on.

Michael is buzzing with confidence. He's had a great year. The US Open was great for him. That's the sort of kick I need. I need a big tournament win.

I didn't play as well today as I had the first three days. If this was a stroke play event I'd have been well ahead because I played so well the first three days. But that's the way it goes. Michael played well today.

Over the two rounds today I made a lot of course management mistakes, four or five times. You can't miss it right on 15 when the pin is on the left. And you can't hit it left on 16. Those two cost me.

With me being four off the lead then of course I will need any advantage I can get, and if the wind does blow it might help me. The course played difficult and I am surprised how good the scoring is and how many guys are under par - I thought level par would be a good score.

It was great today. I feel I played better than a 68, but it is a good score and we'll take it.

I've won big tournaments in the past but to win a big one like this means a lot to me. I knew I had a chance today,

I played the first two rounds of the U.S. Open with him, ... I said to him on the 18th green after the second round, 'Michael, if you play like that you'll win this thing' The next two days, sure enough, he did.

The Dane was one up through 22 holes, but lost seven of the next eight holes - a run which included McGinley sinking an 85-yard pitch for an eagle 2 at the 29th. I was the last man in and hopefully I'll be the last man standing, ... Maybe fate and destiny

But no golfer ever likes finishing second and I'll be doing everything I possibly can to go one better this time.

Cabrera was tough today. I hit him with some hard punches. He didn't buckle.

I bogeyed the first on Friday but from there went 53 holes without a bogey. That's a bloody long time around this course.

It was only a few feet off the fairway but in the wet rough it buries. It weaves its way in and the grass covers it, ... I don't think I've ever lost a ball in Ireland before.

The TV and the public pay our wages and they like to see professional golfers mess it up. Missing a green with a chip shot - when do you see that It's great to see exciting golf like we had last week.

It's not just you playing well for one week, it's you playing well for 12 months. Everyone wants to win it and he's done it eight times, so that's pretty impressive.

We're in the room where Sam (Torrance) held all the team meetings in 2002, it's the first time I've been in here since then.

I played so well the first few days, but Michael played well today, ... I couldn't get at him. I caught him a few times, but I couldn't get 1- up on him. My game just wasn't quite good enough.

Campbell, however, was still alive and all he had to do was ride the huge slice of luck he received on that par four - when his approach flew the green and was a foot from being out of bounds - to chip up for a birdie and play the next six holes in one under to steal the Match Play crown. How Simple. McGinley played like a drain, the 16th being a case of muck in point. After his rival had found the bunker off the tee, McGinley responded to this chink of light to find the darkest reaches of the trees on the left. Two down with two to play and when Campbell pitched to a foot on the par-five 17th it was shake hands time for the winner and shake heads time for the loser. The 12th was crucial, ... A massive break for him that I'll never forget.

After McGinley had hit his second into a greenside bunker, Campbell gave his too much, the ball bounding down the bank towards the boundary fence. Six inches more, ... and it would have been out of bounds and I would have gone one up.

You know, it was a day for battling, and I really battled. I started out great, just striped it the first five or six holes, then missed a few fairways by a yard. It seems every time you miss by a yard, you're stone dead. Every time I was, it was a chip out. But I managed to get pars.

Luke is a world-class player as everybody knows and he had a lot of support as a local boy, ... But I was able to keep them quiet.

I can't take a huge amount of credit for that. I watched Luke roll it 8 feet past and I was just trying to lag it to the hole.

There's no manual in college which can help you. You have to learn from experience.

We have been friends for 15, 20 years and he has been on and on about caddying for me and it has never worked out. When he finally sold his company, he became unemployed and I said I would employ him for a week.