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David Toms

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JOEL SCHUCHMANN: How important it was for to you get off to that good start, birdie the first couple of holes?

 

DAVID TOMS: That was big. First hole, making birdie there, kind of just set the tone for the way I guess the day was going to be. I felt very calm out there all day today. Felt good over all of my putts. My speed was good. Not only did I hit a lot of fairways, but I hit it on the right side of the fairway to where I had good angles, and it's just one of those things where it was working well for me.

 

Q. Your pattern has been other than the Match Play to typically win more in the middle of the year, is there anything that you can pinpoint as to why you won so early this year?

 

DAVID TOMS: You know, I just think it's more willpower than anything else. You know, wanting to win more than anything else.

 

Before, early in my career it was like, oh, make some cuts, try to get into contention, see how you do. When I started winning tournaments, that felt good, too. But I wouldn't say it was everything to me, and now it is.

 

I feel good, I'm confident in my game and my ability, and it's what I want to do is win. I think you have to really, really want to do it before it's going to happen. I think the last couple of years, I'm getting older, I was 39 last week, so I'm not saying I'm close to being done or anything. But I have to get it now when I can and when I do play well, capitalize on it. I think it's just a mindset more than anything else.

 

Q. You're pretty good with the lead going into the final round, are you aware of that? Is there anything to that that gets you

 

DAVID TOMS: I'm aware of it. But today, being tied with a guy that played great golf the day before, I knew I was going to have to play well. It wasn't like you're laying in bed last night trying to figure out how to pars and get by. I knew I had to play well and get in that mindset to have a good round, just like I was going out and play Thursday's round knowing I was going to have to play well.

 

Q. It's probably an old story in your eyes, but there's still people that look at you and think of you on the stretcher and that whole incident back at 84 Lumber, can you talk about winning in terms of being able to just let everyone know that "this is behind me," if it is?

 

DAVID TOMS: I still get questions about it. Every week somebody will ask me in the gallery or somebody with the media or just somebody with the golf tournament, you know, am I okay.

 

I'm fine. That is definitely behind me. Just like when I had the hand surgery a couple of years ago, I came out and was able to play well right away and erase any questions that I might have and whether or not I was going to be able to do it again.

 

You know, I've come a long way obviously from that day in Pennsylvania.

 

Q. Was it on your mind at all to start the year?

 

DAVID TOMS: None whatsoever. I have no diet issues. I've got a clean bill of health other than that one little problem I have and that's fixed and it's really not an issue at all.

 

Rory Sabbatini

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Q. Was there a point today when you felt like you could put some pressure on him?

 

RORY SABBATINI: You know, after getting through when I was on No. 5 and I looked back and I saw David was 2 under through four, I figured at that point that, you know, he was on today and he wasn't going to let anybody catch him.

 

The only person that would have a chance would be Chad, and just from that point, I knew that I could only do my best, but the chances were, I wasn't going to catch him.

 

Q. When you play somebody like that who just all of the sudden it becomes automatic, they kind of get in that zone, is it intimidating, or is it just something where you just have to play within yourself and hope that they get out of that zone?

 

RORY SABBATINI: Well, you know, I was pretty much this whole week focused on what I was doing, focused on my game and not trying to think outside and start thinking ahead of "what if" and this and that. You know, just really focusing on what I was doing. I did that pretty well this week and I managed to keep myself in that frame of mind all day today, and I didn't make a when I did make a mistake, I managed to recover from it.

 

Q. When you thought last night about what it might take to catch him, where did 62 fit in there?

 

RORY SABBATINI: I figured barring him having a bad day today, 1 or 2 over is always possible on this golf course. It's a golf course that never really gives you anything easily. So I figured, you know, go out and shoot a 61, 62, might give me a chance but just have to just have to wait and see.

 

Q. Where does Bubba rank amongst the free swingers, for lack of a better word, that you've played with?

 

RORY SABBATINI: Very impressed with his game out there. You know, obviously he hits the ball an absolute mile. Some of the drives he hit out there today I could remember when I was a rookie and would just let it go. I was like, there's absolutely no possibility I could ever have hit it that far. Just unbelievable. You know, I was very impressed with his short game. I think if he just maybe slows himself down around the green a little bit and spends a little more time just getting settled into his putting, he's going to be a force to be reckoned with.