I was right back to work the middle of the day Monday, in the gym, and practiced yesterday with no lingering effects from last week. And that's a major step for me, that I'm feeling better, I'm stronger.
Last year was a big building block for me, getting back to playing a full schedule.
We'll take today over the last two days, when the wind blew like crazy. Obviously we got off to a good start... and took advantage of the softer greens.
I'm digging balls out of the rough that I wasn't able to and I'm hitting drives powerfully at the end of a round like I couldn't last year. I've been remarkably calm.
I haven't won, but I think I made a lot of progress physically last year. I got to feeling better and better and contending more and more.
I remember playing practice rounds with him in 2000, and he'd hit these drives and you'd say, 'Wow, that is so far and so straight,' ... You never say that anymore. It was frightening playing with him then. In the last year and a half or so I'm driving it right with him.