You want an Open title by your name. To finally get it, even though it’s a Senior Open, I still regard it as a very high honor.

You want an Open title by your name. To finally get it, even though it's a Senior Open, I still regard it as a very high honor.

Once the Champions Tour got in me and got a hold of me, I found out how great this Tour is and how much I enjoy it.

He can communicate with people and he understands the golf swing. He can take a player who shoots 120, and a scratch player, and help them both. I think that's the secret to a great teacher, being able to communicate with all types.

Hopefully it'll inspire our guys -- they knew how poorly I was playing, ... I told them if I could somehow win a match and win it pretty convincingly, it may give them a shot of confidence.

His dying wish was to meet me and play two holes.

I'm just excited to be the defending champion. I'm going to be nervous knowing that Tommy Bolt and Lee Trevino are going to be at the Champions Dinner. I'll have to work on something to liven up the party.

Skill? That's kind of where the tour has gone. You can hit it 50 yards off-line and hit a wedge out of the rough. They can still fire at the flagstick. That's the way golf has played out the last couple of years.

It's night and day from last year what they did to that hole. It's an animal. Whoever wins Sunday is not just going to walk away with the win. They're going to have to earn it.

I've got to somehow regroup. I shot a couple over today in the pro-am. ... My head wasn't quite in it. I was out in space. I'm thinking too much in the past. I've got to refocus, get back in the present and get ready to play golf.