Am I worried it might affect golf's future in the Olympics ? Very much so. First time we're back in the Olympics since 1904 and we don't show up, the IOC will have a good look at this and think,' hang on a minute, what's happened here ? We've suddenly had to find around 300 new rooms, and we've had to build a golf course.

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I'm a great believer that if you don't get the ball to the hole,... by Colin Montgomerie

I'm a great believer that if you don't get the ball to the hole, it won't go in.

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I haven't slept properly for 12 years because of this bloody game. I don't think you do in a competitive game. You toss and turn and you don't sleep.

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There's a motto, if you fail and fail, you come back and try again. I've had a couple of failures here in America and close calls, especially in Major Championships, and it's great to finally, finally win.

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It's very difficult to move yourself up bit by bit. It's like trying to eat an elephant for God's sake. I can do it. It's just I have to have it bite by bite, you know. It's possible. You can eat an elephant, but you have to do it bite by bite. You can't do it all in one go.

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To be truthful, I think golfers are overpaid. It's unreal, and I have trouble dealing with the guilt sometimes.

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McIlroy's taken the standard of golf to one level beyond where Ti... by Colin Montgomerie

McIlroy's taken the standard of golf to one level beyond where Tiger was.

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That's great. They should put the hole in the fairway. by Colin Montgomerie

That's great. They should put the hole in the fairway.

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I was more comfortable somehow in a European Tour setting. I have never really felt comfortable in the States and therefore I have never won a 72-hole event there.

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He's sort of caught everybody on the hot, really, and good luck to him. He tried it last week as an experiment and it certainly worked.

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There were more people out there on the first tee than I imagined and it was fantastic to get their support, it was a great atmosphere.

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The best shot I hit, probably one of the best shots of my life, was the fourth out of the bunker, away from the hole, no one in the field would have got the first ball out of there, it was buried in the face of the bunker. The second one fell into a footprint and my footprint is deeper than most... and I hit a great shot to get it out.

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I know my way around here as much as anyone, i do perhaps have an advantage of knowing the course. But the standard of play is extremely high, a hair's breadth from the PGA Tour itself, and most of the top seniors are here.

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This major business is difficult because Tiger takes two of them, so that only leaves two for everyone else. If you give one to Phil, Ernie Els and Vijay Singh and Retief Goosen, that only leaves one, doesn't it ? So there's only one left every year.

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It's sensible. I know the prize money isn't what they'd expect but it gets the membership playing golf, it's a total reset and I feel for the young guys coming through who thought they were going to be playing for millions. It'll take a few years before we get back to those times.

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