As a kid in Fayetteville, N.C., I played golf all day, every day, a lot of it by myself. I spent hundreds of hours around the greens at Cape Fear Valley, the course my dad owned, hitting every shot I could think of - the one-hop-and-release, the chip that lands dead, the explosion from a bad lie.

I guess what was going to come back came back on Monday. Of course now I've played a different golf course. I've played two practice rounds and two tournament rounds all kind of the same and now today I've played a different golf course.

Visualization. It may be the most important part of your mental package.

If I play my best, I can win anywhere in the world against anybody.

They call it golf because all the other four-letter words were taken.

When you're the best, and you know you're the best, and your contemporaries know you're the best, that's a terrific edge.

I honestly believe that with a strong mind, you can literally 'will' the ball into the hole.