I was horrified. Absolutely heart sick. All I could think of was that after 23 years together, I'd lost my faithful ally. I couldn't sleep, couldn't get the loss out of my mind. It was like discovering that someone in my family had died.

It's emotional for every champion who decides to step down, it's a tough decision. It's probably easier for some, like me. But I'm just going to try to take it in stride. It's part of life.

My golf game's gone off so much that when I went fishing a couple of weeks ago my first cast missed the lake.

I have felt terribly from the beginning when I saw the problems and recognized that they would be ongoing. We were hired to put back the contours of the greens as closely as possible to George Thomas's designs and were real proud of what we did. It's a sad situation now

Hale Irwin is the exception. He just does everything so well.

I had a few miracles happen out there today.

As a golfer, you feel like you're perpetually on the rack [in foursomes]. Mentally, it's very difficult.