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| A Look Back: Aug. 1 1961: Brad Faxon, a seven-time winner on the PGA Tour, is born in Oceanport, N.J. 1964: Johnny Miller wins the U.S. Junior Amateur Championship at Eugene (Ore.) Country Club. 1971: Arnold Palmer and Jack Nicklaus defend their title in the National Team Championship. 1992: Tiger Woods wins his second consecutive U.S. Junior Amateur Championship. 1999: Australian Karrie Webb wins her first major, the du Maurier Classic, over Laura Davies and Juli Inkster. |
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In Their Own Words
J.P. Hayes
J.P. Hayes, 36, won his second career title Sunday at the John Deere Classic (67-61-67-67). He also won the 1998 Buick Classic. Following are some of his comments throughout the week.
After shooting a course-record 61 in the second round:
I felt like I was going to play well, but you never expect something like that, but the putts started going in and I hit the ball probably as good as I hit it yesterday. So that made the difference, putting.
After I birdied 15 and -- after I birdied 15 I thought about it and I thought if I could finish birdie-eagle-birdie obviously that would be 59 so I was thinking about it on the 16th tee. I hit a great shot there, made birdie. I thought: Here we go. Then a perfect drive what I thought in the air was a perfect 3-iron, but it didn't work out. But it was fun for a while.
It was very low stress last two days. Yesterday I didn't make a bogey. Today I did make a bogey. But for the other 17 holes I really had very little stress. I hit a ton of greens and never really had -- never a -- besides 8 never really had a putt for par that I didn't think I was going to make.
After retaining a share of the lead with a bogey-free round Saturday:
It played much more difficult today. The wind was blowing quite a bit harder than it has all week. The course was much softer, so it played a lot longer than it has all week. It was difficult. I hung tough with some good pars, and the first 13 holes, the putts that I made were all for -- I think I made two or three good putts for par.
Every shot is important and I definitely wanted to be in the last group. I thought that was probably my biggest goal today was to stay tight with the lead and be in the last group. I feel like I have a pretty good chance tomorrow.
I feel very comfortable in this position. I dearly want to win another golf tournament and I am going to give it my best tomorrow and beyond that there's nothing I can do tomorrow.
After winning his second career title:
I probably wanted this one more just because I didn't win the first one. I didn't know what I was getting into and it just kind of happened. But I definitely wanted this one more, so in that respect it's pretty sweet.
I told my caddie walking to the 1st tee in the pro-am, I said I just had a vision, and he said what was that? I said I just had a vision that I had -- had to make a putt to win this tournament. It's pretty weird now that I think of it. Not to win the tournament. I said I just had a vision that I had a putt to win and he says, you mean the pro-am? And I said (laughter) -- I said no, the tournament.
I kind of surprised myself a little bit in that I really didn't miss a golf shot today. You expect in the situation to maybe hit a couple of lose shots, but I just, boy I just -- every shot I hit was pleasing to the eye. Aside from the tee shot on 1.
I always believed that I was going to win again and I did, but, you know, I don't think it really changes my -- where I am. It will improve my world ranking. It's going to get me in some more tournaments, but I am still going to be a guy that's going to go out and give it is 110% at every tournament. That's not going to change.
Reflecting on his win:
It's been a fun couple of days. It's been tiring, although I wouldn't trade it for anything. But the last time I won -- I was thinking about why it was so much different this time, and I figured out that it's because I have a cell phone now, and I didn't have a cell phone back then. It's amazing how many people can get ahold of you when you have a cell phone.
It didn't really occur to me what I could shoot (on Friday) until I got to the back nine, and then I started thinking about it. I think for me, anyway, it's unavoidable and I did think about shooting 59 with three holes left. I hit some pretty good shots in those three holes, so thinking about it didn't really affect me.
No, it just happens. 61 is just -- well, I've only had a couple, but it just happens. Before you know it, you're signing a card for 61.