There's no perfect strategy that eliminates risk, it's very difficult to play short of the bunkers all the time. The beauty of the course is that there are a lot of different ways of playing it, but eventually you're going to have to grow up and hit the shots.

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Sleep, my little one, sleep.

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Believe it or not, when I get in contention I can still hit the shots.

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I don't support the belly putter. I think it's bad for the game of golf.

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I knew what I was doing, always! I just couldn't stop.

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I hadn't won in Europe for two years, although I won twice in America last year, but it's great to come back and win. You never want to go a year without a win. It's very special to win and I'm really happy the way I did it.

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It seems a little bit like the home of the U.S. Open in the States. For all the venues of the U.S. Open this is more synonymous for the U.S. Open than any other one.

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Hopefully, I want to play a little better than I did today.

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I'm sure there's a hell of a party in Ireland now and I know I don't have anything to do for two-and-a-half days so I'm going to party on

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I am pleased that the (European Tour) tournament committee agreed to the change of wild card numbers, i have spoken to a number of people regarding the ninth player automatically qualifying for the team and in my experience, a player is more comfortable when he has qualified, hence my reasoning behind this change.

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I'll be certainly telling Padraig Harrington that I know what I'm doing and I've done it before, i have no issue with putting my neck on the line and failing.

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It's more important to be consistent, but who cares about consistent, it's more important to be erratic and win.

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You do need to be in that situation a couple of times to be comfortable, that's not true for everyone. But for most players, you have to lose a few before you can win a few.

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The best preparation for winning is contending.

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It was an early start, everybody was tired and I heard a couple of players say,' I'm finishing for the day and I'm not going to practice,' i really wanted to leave. I said,' No, I'll go down to the range.' And I found something down there. Again, nothing to do with my technique. I found something to do with my focus, and I got a little bit of peace. And probably for 50 percent of the time this week, I had peace out on the golf course.

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One of the things the things that helped change my putting around was if I had a 10-foot putt to win on the 18th green... I wouldn't want anybody else to putt it, so as much as I was struggling, I still would choose Padraig Harrington to read that putt and hit that putt.

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It's not about what it means to my career or what it means going forward, you don't win that often. When you win, make sure you enjoy it. So that's where I'm at the moment. And in time, I will start to see things like invitations to the Masters and that. But right now, I won on the PGA Tour this week, and... well, actually last week and this week.

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I was not allowing my emotions to get away with me, i never once considered how important this win is to me.

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If I had come from Ireland, I probably would be thinking it was a nice day, but having played the last four weeks over here, even I was struggling and questioning and doubting myself out there. I found it very difficult.

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