AP: Well, I suppose my gut feeling was I was so relieved and so happy to be at Augusta. I had played the Winter Tour, and a lot of things happened. One, I couldn’t take any money I won because I had to wait six month. It was a relief to get here because I knew that if I won any money, I’d get it, and that was important.

The other thing was that I played golf courses coming across the sweep in the South that in some cases, I started on the golf course at 5’10” and ended up at 6’0” because the mud on my shoes had built up a couple of inches.

And the greens, the greens on a lot of golf courses there was no grass; they overseed in the winter and it didn’t work.

So to get here where everything was impeccable, it was beautiful, the club, the facilities, and I was relieved. I was looking forward to it so much.

You can talk about it, but you can’t really tell someone how relieved you are. It was an inner feeling, and I knew that I had a chance to do something; that whatever I did play wise I was going to get rewarded for, and that was something I really looked forward to.