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Fred Couples won the Skins Game Sunday, earning $605,000 and his fourth title in the event. Following is Couples' transcript from Wednesday about the competition, playing against Annika Sorenstam, Phil Mickelson and Mark O'Meara, and the course setup.

FRED ROBELO: Good morning, everyone, and welcome to the Skins Game conference call with Fred Couples. Fred is going to be playing in the Skins Game against defending champion Mark O'Meara, Phil Mickelson and Annika Sorenstam who is going to become the first woman ever to play in the Skins Game. ABC is going to televise the event on Saturday, November 29, from 4:30 to 7:00 p.m. Eastern Time and on Sunday, November 30, from 3:30 to 6:00 p.m. Before we get to Fred Couples, a little about him. He's a three-time winner of this Skins Game. He's won it at three different venues, so he will be trying for a fourth different venue when he plays at the Trilogy Golf Club in La Quinta. He is the all-time leading money winner. He's earned over $2.2 million in the Skins Game and by playing in it this year for the tenth time, he passes Jack Nicklaus as the all-time leader in Skins Game appearances.

FRED COUPLES: Thanks, Fred. Yeah, no, I'm looking forward to playing. I played the course yesterday and had a good time. It's a beautiful spot.

FRED ROBELO: Fred, can you tell us a little bit about the course? Not too many people have seen it. Of course, Gary Panks designed it and everyone is anxious to have a look at it.

FRED COUPLES: Right. Yeah, I will ... it's in really, really good shape. It's, you know, a little typical ... I don't know the right wording. I mean, there's on the one nine, I believe there's quite a few homes and then probably in phases and then on the back nine, which we'll be playing the second day, I don't think there are any homes after the tenth or eleventh holes and then you come into some unbelievable finishing holes. So it's a barely forgiving driving course, although, you know, you can still hit it in the junk on any place. But I mean it's not scary. There's a few fairway bunkers that are well placed.

But I think the greens aren't severe, but they have some very good pins and there are some, you know, as I call them, like three pin greens, where there's a little knob and some knolls that roll in the spots, but basically, they have pins in the front and the back left and back right and whatever way they choose.

I think, you know, you'll have hits in good approach shots and you'll be shooting in with, you know, I think mostly seven, eight and nine irons and that's for us. And then, obviously, Phil Mickelson's a much longer hitter and he'll probably be hitting a lot of nines and wedges, so it should be for some, you know, I think very, very good golf because it's not a tricky course. It all sits there and I believe it's a pretty good golf course.

FRED ROBELO: What about the chances of someone like Annika Sorenstam, who can probably make a lot of birdies?

FRED COUPLES: Well, yeah. You know, and yesterday when we were playing, my caddy, Joey caddied at Colonial for Jay Hawes, and I just thought he might know and I asked him how many birdies she made at Colonial, which I consider to be a very, very difficult, I say little golf course, because it's not long in real length, but it's not short either. But very small greens. And he thought she made one birdie. I think that's going to really, really change.

You know, in the Skins Game, you always want to get off to a good start, and that's right from the driving range because by the time you get in the swing of things, you know, you could be in the fourth or fifth hole and that's half the round. Whereas, you know, in a golf tournament, if you don't get off to a good star first four or five holes, you certainly don't want to make a double or a lot of bogies. But you can work the ball around.

In the Skins Game, you're so aggressive, and if you're not hitting the shots, you know, on one, two or three, then you get into a little panic mode. And I think what is so good, you know, for any player, but for Annika, she hits the ball so solid, so straight, and she's very precise that, you know, I think she'll have no problem with any of this.

I think it's a very good course. I honestly don't have a feel. I've played with her probably five or six times in some of the Wendy's and some other places. But I don't know how much distance she's picked up. But I can't tell if I'm going to hit a drive on a nine iron and she's going to hit a driver in a six. If that's the case, I still think she's got no disadvantage there because she's probably just as good with a six iron as I am with an eight or a nine iron. And that's with greens that ... they're not totally baked out or hard. So she could stop the ball and I think she'll do very well. I'm excited to play with her.

I think it's a great thing and, obviously, Phil coming in to play with Mark and I. You know, it should be very interesting because you're going to see all the gamuts. You're going to see precise play, you're going to see drives 350 from Phil, and you're going to see Annika, I think, hit a lot of holes. I firmly believe that the way she hits the ball, she's going to be right there.

And I watched the first round at Colonial and they showed her play a lot, obviously. But I felt like, what I saw, she played the best ... I know it sounds crazy. But she played the best golf that day for what she had. I mean, she's hitting longer clubs. She was incredible. And I think she shot 71 and maybe bogied ... well, I know she bogied the last hole, but that was a great, great round of golf. And here, she should be in every hole except for maybe a couple that are just really, really long unless she hits some great wood shots in there. But the rest of them, she'll have no problem.

FRED ROBELO: Fred, maybe you could just tell us about what your year has been like.

FRED COUPLES: Well, actually, my year started out with a big change. As we know, I started practice and worked with Butch Harmon, and what he was telling me clicked pretty quickly and I started to play some pretty good golf and had a few decent finishes and was really excited about getting to Augusta. And I played decent there, but putted horrendously. And then all of a sudden, some confidence came and then I started to putt a lot better and I started to hit the ball the same and then I ended up winning at Houston.

And then took a week off, and then I was leading and cruising, as I use the term, at Waucovia. And then my back went out the second round with like four holes to play. And I got through that round decently and then I was in the last group on Saturday, playing with Nick Price and hanging in there with him. And then on the tenth hole, it went out again, and then I struggled just to finish. And then from that particular time, which was close to June all the way to the end of the year, I basically was not feeling very good and very stiff, but swinging okay. Whereas, in the previous two years, I wasn't feeling very good, but my swing stunk too, whereas this time at least I got my swing back on track.

And I ended up having a pretty decent year and I ended up playing at Disney doing well, and then decided to stay and try to give it a shot at Tampa to play in the [Ford] Championship and in the Pro-Am, you know, on the third hole I went down to my knees and I actually was in bed for awhile. And yesterday was really the first time I stepped onto a course. I hit some balls Sunday, not many, and then I hit a few balls Monday, and then I actually played yesterday. And I did fine. I mean, I really was surprised. But I don't know ... it's three weeks without playing any golf and really laying around. So I'm kind of hoping to go out today and feel as good as I did yesterday. I don't know if I'm going to get inflamed or stiff or what. But I'll have no problem playing unless, obviously, you know, something happens like it did at Tampa. But I feel much better.

Q.: Hi, Fred. Just one question. How do you explain your overall success in the Skins Game? Is it just like a matter of timing, just playing the right hole at the right time, the right shot at the right time?

FRED COUPLES: I think so. You know, a lot of the times it's what other guys do. You know, I do know specifically a couple of times where Mark O'Meara made a putt to tie Tiger. And then I jumped in on the next hole and make a birdie and no one else does. And, you know, you can end up with a lot of Skins.

You know, I remember with Tom Watson, you know, he played some unbelievable golf and I just happened to win one big hole, and it was at Rancho La Quinta, and it was a hole that was in practice rounds and in the Pro-Ams, everyone was trying to drive the green, and I decided, you know, for that kind of money, hey, I got to hit a four iron off tee and hit a sand wedge out on the green. I was the only guy to birdie it. I think Fred ... I don't remember, it was for a lot of money. And I ended up winning the Skins Game at that particular time on a hole that was 315 yards and there was only one birdie. So, you know, you can play an incredible hole and birdie the hardest hole in the world and have some guy make a 40-footer and tie you. So, you know, it's definitely, definitely the right time, the right place.

There's no way you can go out there and make eight birdies and say, "Boy, I outplayed everybody, but I won two Skins." Where some guy, you know, makes three birdies and an eagle, you know, he could win the whole ball of wax. So I've been lucky, obviously lucky in golf tournaments, lucky in the Skins Game, but to me, I try and hit a lot of shots. And when I fail at them, I never get flustered, even in tour events.

In the Skins Game, it's really all about failure and it's all about success. The rest of the stuff, nobody cares about. You can go out there and play a par three that's 230 yards downhill over water and hit the ball 15 feet. That's an incredible shot. But if you don't make the putt, you know, nobody cares. You know, I mean, I won ... like I said, I won a four iron off the tee and a sand wedge and I won like $260,000 and I felt like I didn't do anything. It was the other guy that really failed on the hole and I did a nice thing.

But when you see the miraculous thing, the hole in one by Travino, you know, some of these other shots. I think Mark O'Meara, last year, played some incredible golf. And on the, probably the fifteenth hole, par three, ... the fifteenth hole, you know, over the water, he used a six iron about two feet. You know, with all the money on the line. And that's how you win these things.

Q.: Which course are you playing today? The Palms or Trilogy?

FRED COUPLES: I'm going to practice at the Palms and then I'm going to go play after the Pro-Am at the Trilogy, I'm going to go out, I think, and play the back nine. It's a little more tricky with some tee shots. So I'm going to go out there around 2:00 and then play as many holes as I can. But, like I said, a good time yesterday. I think, you know, you can get the feel of it pretty quickly and I know O'Meara's playing today and I think a couple of other guys will come in and possibly play a little bit tomorrow and then we have a Pro-Am on Friday. And I don't know when Annika's coming in. But a couple more days and we should have it dialed in and then I've just got to be able to hit it like I did yesterday. You know, again, I hit a lot of really good irons. Most of them were seven, eight and nine irons, but I drove the ball well. And again, I haven't been playing, but I'm going to hang out here at the Palms and do a little work and I might go to the Plantation and have lunch. And I've been down here for three days trying to get loose, having a ball, and the weather's been great.

Q.: You were probably looking for a little more heat from the temperature than you are in right now.

FRED COUPLES: Yeah, actually yeah. And I know Sunday we start on the first tee at 8:00 or [inaudible] at 8:00. That won't be the easiest thing in the world, but I mean, it won't be the hardest thing either. It'll just be get off to a nice start and ... but there again, we could have some ties. You could start out on the tenth hole, you know, for $150,000-200,000. And as I was saying, it's so important to take both these rounds and get going. And a lot of times, it's hard to get going, especially ... I mean, I can get really stiff and sometimes it takes me a few holes to get cruising. But I'm really looking forward to it and I certainly love to watch Annika play. Mark O'Meara's a very good friend. We've been on tour, I think, together for 24 years and then Phil is someone I highly respect. So I love the way he plays golf. So it'll be fun. I'm looking forward to playing.

Q.: Do you have an overall feeling about ... obviously, we've had Annika at Colonial this year and Michelle Wie's, I guess, going to play at Sony in January and we've had other players, Suzy Whaley and Jan Stephenson played in the Champions Tour event. Do you have just an overall feeling about whether that's necessarily a good thing for golf or good for the tour?

FRED COUPLES: Well, yeah. I mean, I think now it's kind of going to happen. Originally, when it first happened, you know, I don't know Suzy Whaley, but I believe she qualified last year or the year before for Hartford. So she had a long wait. And then of course Annika came in before her at Colonial and my initial reaction was, you know, "Wow, what's going on here?" You know? And then it's kind of like you finish and you lose a match, and then they come up to you and they want to ask ... I mean, you need five minutes to regroup, you know, and figure out what just happened and sometimes you're going to say the wrong things and if you get a minute to breathe, then I think when it first comes up, you know, if you don't really think about it, you don't really understand what's going on.

And I think Annika, as the best woman player, probably, you know, possibly deserves to play in a PGA tour event and possibly another one next year. I don't really have any problems with any of it. You know, as I've always said, people always think when you're going to play against Nick [Faldo] or Paul Montgomery, you know, they're foreigners, do you want to beat them? You know, they're golfers. And she's a golfer. She's an unbelievably good golfer. But I will say, originally, I thought ... I didn't have a problem, I just didn't understand it. And then the buzz I saw at Colonial was unbelievable. I was not there, but I watched it and I watched 18 straight holes of her playing.

So I respect her decision and then certainly Se Ri Pak is also very talented and now Michelle Wie, who I had a chance of playing in a little shootout in Hawaii two years ago, I guess. I was in shock how good she was. And she can't get that much better like every three months. I mean, she's someone whose already great and so just time is going to make her better. I mean, we can't foresee a 13-year-old saying she's Annika Sorenstam, but she's going to be. I don't think there's any doubt. So I think it'll be exciting and I don't know if I'm playing Hawaii or not. But if I don't, I will certainly watch because I have a lot of interest in it and I think it's really good for golf. The PGA Tour, you know, we need exciting things and if that's what it takes, I've got no problem with any of it.

Q.: You are about to have the most all-time appearances in these things. Does playing in these ever get old for you?

FRED COUPLES: No. And I will say, because this is a year that I snuck in. There's so many things going on. Guys are still playing, I think it's called the Nedbank Challenge or the Sun City, and played in the Presidents Cup. And so under the green light, I got in here because a few guys didn't want to play. But I feel like I can belong here and I've done very well and I am really excited. You know, I've got my sister and her husband, aunt and uncle down here, and we're all having a good time. It's a fun, fun week and we would be down here for Thanksgiving anyway. And I'd probably go out and watch a little bit.

But to be playing, you know, it's an adrenalin rush. I mean, I got to be honest. Anytime, you know, every time you do something, it's like a win. And when you win a hole for $50,000, we all know it's not the same as winning one for $250,000, but it's still like you're winning a tournament, even though you're only beating three guys. And sometimes when you win a tournament on the PGA on Sunday, you know, you'll only have to beat two, three, four guys. You have to beat 150 to start the week, but this is really like a golf event and every hole is like a playoff. And that's the way I look at it and when I hit a drive in the water, you know, I go to the next hole and I say, "Here's a brand new start." Nothing really rattles me. And I think that's why I do so well and sometimes I don't swing well. But you turn on one shot, and then you get a little groove, and maybe win two out of four holes. And that's kind of the way I've done it. And this year, you know, I'm not ... I feel good, but I haven't played ... you know, the rest of these guys are playing. I mean, Annika's playing all over, Mark's played the last two weeks every day, you know, so I'm trying to fit in and get ready and just to play well and not embarrass myself. And yesterday, you know, I was pretty pleased with the way I felt and hit the ball. So that was a good sign.