Steve Elkington Quotes (11 Quotes)

When I first saw the course 18 years ago, it was so intimidating. It was a new style of golf, a new concept. So it took some time for guys to learn to like it. It's a great venue, because it's the most precise golf we have to play all year. You have to hit fairways and greens there. There's none of this hit-four-out-of-14-fairways-and-still- shoot-68 on that golf course.

Our place was like Noah's Ark. We had 14 people, two dogs, two cats and about 60 budgies in our house.

I couldn't do what Vijay has done, put it that way, ... I doubt he knows where the light switches are in his house.

I'm probably as experienced tomorrow as anyone. I've played in a lot of major championships and won this tournament. I've had a lot of good majors, a lot of good performances in this event particularly.

Elkington has got to be saying, 'I'm Australian and live in Houston - the heat is kind of cool here.'

I've been out of the limelight. But people forget quick. I've done a lot of this. I've never been afraid of the arena. I guess I'm a different guy compared to the way Tiger collects wins. I pop up once in a while.

It looked good from my angle.

I'll be the first guy going through those three holes and it's my job to get a birdie or two. It's a shame we didn't get to finish. It was a bit of a to and fro among three or four players out there. It's a shame the crowd didn't get to see the finish.

I wrote Adam a note after the Players telling him that was the hardest tournament he would ever win. Now I think Adam is equipped for the majors. I don't know if anybody else is there yet.

The last place I wanted to hit was the right bunkers so I was trying to guard from that and I overguarded and hit the tree and it came out. I got a great break and then I hit a nice shot into a divot. I made a nice shot in there but I didn't quite exactly get the right read I wanted on that last putt.

Major-championship golf, you're just really concentrating on more or less the shot you're trying to hit, ... If you get too far ahead of that, you don't seem to do too well.