Any decision that you make in your life that's purely for money usually doesn't end up going the right way, obviously, money is a deciding factor in a lot of things in this world, but if it's purely for money, it's not, it never seems to go the way you want it to.

Rory McIlroy

I've always felt that a few of the bans or suspensions, I think that should be announced, i think that should be more transparent. I've always said that.

I think you turn up at any golf course where you've had success, and automatically you're going to have some confidence coming in.

Hopefully, he comes back at some stage, and he will, and people will welcome him back and be glad that he is back.

Naive, selfish, egotistical, ignorant. A lot of words to describe that interaction with Shipnuck, it was just very surprising and disappointing.

I’m sure he’s sitting at home sort of rethinking his position and where he goes from here.

You look at the people that have already said no, you've got the top players in the world are saying no, so that has to tell you something.

That's not what they're going to want, is it ? They don't want some sort of league that’s like a pre-Champions Tour. I guess I understand the financial part of it for guys that are later on in their career.

I’ll certainly pick and choose my spots where I can take advantage of the driver and hit it, but the best player of the last 30 years, Tiger, he picked and chose where he hit driver, and he played a very, very controlled game, it didn’t work out too badly for him.

Not saying that my game compares to his in any way.

It’s just about resetting your goals, just trying to keep improving as a player, try to not let complacency creep in at any point, i think at times when you get successful and you maybe enjoy a little bit of that success, that complacency can creep in.

I said, ‘Oh, are you going to start in Maui like you usually do?’ He said, ‘I’m not in,' i was like, ‘Oh, sorry.’ There you go. DJ is the second-ranked player in the world and he didn't win. It just shows you how tough it is.

It was a pretty intense end of the year, everyone trying to get ready, masters was only a few weeks away and you were building toward something. And here, I guess you're starting off your season ... not looking too far ahead to this massive thing.

Tommy Fleetwood and Hovland can come back from 6-2.

There's a lot of continuity in our team, and I think that’s been part of the reason for our success.

I certainly feel some sympathy for him because I don’t think that you should be ostracized or criticized for being different, and I think we have all known from the start that Bryson is different and he is not going to conform to the way people want him to be, there are certainly things that he has done in the past that have brought some of this stuff on himself. I’m not saying that he’s completely blameless in this.

I've known Tony for over 20 years. He comes from a great family. He's a wonderful person, obviously, he hadn't won in a while, but he never complained. He just sticks his head down, goes about his business. It was a really popular win in the locker room.

I made some comments before that were probably uneducated and impulsive, but coming here and experiencing it, seeing, feeling everything that goes on — not just Olympic golf but just The Olympics in general — that sort of Olympic spirit has definitely bitten me.

I need to do a better job of just giving things a chance, experiencing things, not writing them off at first glance.

It's like top 3 or nothing, right? so yeah, you’re taking peeks and glances at it and seeing how far off the pace you are. There’s still 18 holes is a lot of golf still and a lot can happen. I need to go play a good round of golf tomorrow and see how it all unfolds.

That’s sort of been the way for the last couple months, it’s felt close, but it just hasn’t quite been close enough.