Steve Elkington Quotations

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.

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.

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

Our contingent is building strength. It's ridiculous to think that somebody won't win one soon.

I was thinking to myself, 'This could be like when I won the Players Championship in '91,' ... I was in a divot, made a nice shot there.

I was very happy with the way I hit the putt. I'd like to see it on tape and see what it did, but it looked good from my angle.

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.

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

The tournament is wide open, I would say now.

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.

I've always had a good head for golf,

There's a lot to be said to be the last guy out there, having the final say.

There's a lot to be said about the last guy out there has the final say,

It's a shame the crowds didn't get to see the finish, and CBS on TV. I know I would have liked to have been watching. I had a front seat.

It was a romp from the start. We poured it on and poured it on.

It's a notch up from what we play week in and week out, that's for sure,

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.

I never think about the ones that got away, ... I don't think I'm finished winning tournaments. I feel really young. I may not look it, but I feel it.

I'll be the first of the leaders with a chance to post a score better than Tiger's and hopefully it will be 5-under.

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 just had a sandwich, ... and I felt much better.

I played well. I was able to move the ball around the way I wanted and I putted well.

Being Australian and living in Houston, ... I thought it was quite cool.

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

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.